The Miami Dolphins have had a steady stream of updates for the league’s new reserve/COVID-19 list over the course of the past week or so. The Dolphins have already seen several players come on and off the list — with such a thorough testing approach this summer to attempt to solidify the locker room as a “safe space” from the ongoing virus, it was inevitable that positive tests — or at the very least, close contact with positive cases that signaled high risk potential — would be found and weeded out.
Miami announced two designations related to the new reserve/COVID-19 list yesterday, with projected starting guard Ereck Flowers being added to the list and rookie long snapper Blake Ferguson being removed from the list.
Dolphins announce Ereck Flowers goes on IR/COVID-19 list, but Blake Ferguson has since come off it. So four players Dolphins currently unavailable.
— Adam Beasley (@AdamHBeasley) August 2, 2020
Ferguson was one of the first three players to be added to the list alongside fellow rookie Benito Jones and cornerback Cordrea Tankersley. Jones was on the list for a few days, whereas the Tankersley remains and is joined by Flowers, LB Jerome Baker and DL Zach Sieler as the current Dolphins players on the list.
The Dolphins will be eligible to remove all four players from the list when they meet the necessary requirements for removal — there should be no long-term impact on the Dolphins’ starting lineup and these designations, with so much time between now and the season opener, should clear up with plenty of time for all four talents to be given the green light for play. That is, of course, assuming there will be no additional close brushes with the virus between now and then.