First injury report for Miami Dolphins battle with the Patriots

The NFL’s required mid-week injury reports have been released and both the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots have submitted their reports.

The initial injury reports for both the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots for Sunday’s match-up were not very good news for either team.  The Dolphins had ten on their list with half of those players not participating in practice today.  The Patriots listed eleven players on the list, all limited participants, and two other players put on injured reserve.

Miami’s defense got pretty banged up this week. There are six from that unit on the injury report, three of which did not practice (DNP), one limited (LP) and two who fully practiced (FP). The three DNP players on the defense were OLB Chase Allen (foot) along with defensive ends Andre Branch and Cameron Wake, both with knee injuries. As previously reported Branch will miss two to four weeks and Wake and Allen are day to day. The players listed as FP were DT Devon Godchaux (ankle) and CB Bobby McCain (shoulder). The only player reported as LP was FS Reshad Jones who missed last weeks game.  The good news is he says he’s feeling better with each practice and is day to day.

The offense fared much better listing only three players in the report and one of those was WR Danny Amendola‘s usual Wednesday off with a DNP designation.  Tight end A. J. Derby (foot) was the other player who didn’t practice, but Adam Gase felt comfortable the the depth in that position if Derby was unable to play and could game plan accordingly. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill (shoulder) was a full participant as was LS John Denney (shoulder).

The New England Patriot’s injury report started out this week with some menacing news. The Patriots leading rusher RB Rex Burkhead and rookie LB Ja’Whaun Bentley have been placed on injured reserve and each will miss a minimum of eight weeks.. Burkhead suffered a neck injury during their loss to Detroit and left the game early. Rookie Sony Michel will most likely be their lead RB in Burkhead’s absence. Bentley was named the starter at the beginning of the season and was fourth on the team in total tackles and had an interception in last week’s game.

The offense had four players on the report, tight ends Rob Gronkowski (ankle) and Jacob Hollister (chest), OL Marcus Cannon (calf) and WR Josh Gordon (hamstring). Hollister and Gordon both missed last week’s game.  All were limited in practice.

The Patriots defense made up the bulk of the Patriots injury report with seven players, although all were limited in practice. Among those were three of their defensive linemen, Trey Flowers (concussion), Danny Shelton (elbow) and Geneo Grissom (ankle). They also had three defensive backs listed as, Keion Crossen (hamstring), Nate Ebner (hip) and Eric Rowe (groin). Rounding out the list was S Patrick Chung (concussion), who also didn’t play against Detroit.

This injury report will be updated when the final injury report is released Friday.