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Dolphins activate Cameron Goode, leave Bradley Chubb on PUP list

The Dolphins released a veteran DT to make room for Cameron Goode to make his return.

The Miami Dolphins activated Cameron Goode from the physically unable to perform (PUP) list Saturday, making the linebacker available to make his 2024 debut Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers.

Not joining him is pass rusher Bradley Chubb, who has also spent the year on the PUP list and returned to practice along with Goode earlier this month. Chubb could be activated in the next few days, but the Dolphins have a chance at being eliminated from playoff contention this weekend.

Goode, 26, was a seventh-round pick in the 2022 NFL draft and spent his entire rookie season on the Dolphins’ practice squad. Last year, he played in all 17 games, but mostly appeared on special teams and finished the season with six tackles and two quarterback hits.

The Dolphins have seen strong play from rookie first-round pick Chop Robinson, but depth at outside linebacker is lacking with Emmanuel Ogbah, Quinton Bell, and fifth-round rookie Mohamed Kamara rounding out the depth chart.

Miami released defensive tackle Neil Farrell Jr. to make room on the roster for Goode.

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Anthony Weaver wants a chance to use all 3 Dolphins edge rushers

Chop Robinson, Jaelan Phillips, and Bradley Chubb didn’t get to play together in 2024. Will they get the chance in 2025?

When the Miami Dolphins picked Chop Robinson in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft, the team knew it was unlikely that he’d begin his career in rotation with edge rushers Bradley Chubb and Jaelan Phillips.

Now it’s a question if Robinson will ever play with that duo.

After returning from an Achilles tear in time to play Week 1, Phillips made it only four games before suffering a season-ending knee injury. Meanwhile, Chubb is still working to return from the devastating knee injury he suffered on New Year’s Eve in 2023.

While there’s no reason to believe Phillips and Robinson won’t play together in 2025, it wouldn’t be a shock if the Dolphins decided to part with Chubb in order to clear more than $20 million in cap space in each of the next three seasons.

But defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver is hoping he eventually gets to see what he can with the trio.

“The idea of having all three of them available and on the field on the same time, I mean you completely opened up Pandora’s box for me and you just start thinking of ways you can use them in multiple positions and really scare and intimidate offenses,” Weaver said Thursday. “t would certainly be an awesome, I want to say problem, it’s certainly not a problem, but it’d just be a lot of fun to see what we can do with all those three guys.”

With five sacks in the last seven weeks, Robinson has made a late push to get in the mix for Defensive Rookie of the Year.

Last season, Phillips had 6.5 sacks in eight games before his Achilles tear. Chubb finished the year with 11 sacks in 16 games.

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Dolphins not ruling out Pro Bowl pass rusher returning in Week 14

A few days of practice typically isn’t enough to be ready to return to action, but Mike McDaniel isn’t ruling it out either.

The Miami Dolphins haven’t been quick to activate players after they return to practice from injury. So it’d be a surprise if pass rusher Bradley Chubb was ready to play Sunday against the New York Jets, just days after making his return to the practice field from an injury suffered nearly a year ago.

Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel isn’t ruling it out, though.

“It is rare; however, I wouldn’t take an opportunity away from someone that was ready for it especially when they dive so deep to get the opportunity,” McDaniel told reporters Wednesday. “I’m going to let the players play, watch the film of themselves, go back to practice again with pads on, do the same thing again. And then right, wrong or indifferent; if a guy feels 100 percent ready to play that has done what they’ve done in front of their teammates [then they’ll play].

“When they’re ready, which I’m also not trying to – like my expectation is that that takes time. It is the first football practice in a year. So I’m not expecting anything, but you don’t rule it out.”

The translation is that neither Chubb nor Cameron Goode, who was also designated to return from the physically unable to perform (PUP) list earlier this week, are likely to return Sunday. As McDaniel said, the “expectation is that that takes time.”

But both linebackers were limited participants Wednesday and if the progress that they’ve made off the practice field is impressive enough that they excel in the days leading up to Week 14, a quick return isn’t completely out of the question.

The Dolphins are currently second to last in the NFL in sacks with only 21. Defensive linemen Calais Campbell and Zach Sieler are tied for the team lead with four sacks each. Just a hair behind are starting edge rushers Emmanuel Ogbah and first-round rookie Chop Robinson, who have 3.5 each.

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Dolphins open practice window for Pro Bowl OLB to return from PUP list

The Dolphins are working one of their 2024 draft picks back into the mix.

The Miami Dolphins’ two-time Pro Bowl pass rusher Bradley Chubb will be back on the practice field Wednesday as he works toward making his season debut, head coach Mike McDaniel told reporters Monday.

Along with Chubb, the Dolphins will also open the 21-day practice window for outside linebacker Cameron Goode, who has also spent the first three months of the season on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list.

Chubb, 28, suffered an ACL tear in Week 17 of the 2023 season. Goode ruptured his patellar tendon a week later in the Dolphins’ regular season finale.

While Jaelan Phillips also suffered a season-ending injury in 2023, he managed to return for Week 1 of the 2024 season. However, it was short-lived and he landed on injured reserve after suffering a knee injury in Week 4 that required surgery.

Instead, the Dolphins have relied on veteran Emmanuel Ogbah and first-round rookie Chop Robinson to generate the majority of the pass rush off the edge. While the latter had a strong November, Miami ranks 31st in the NFL sacks with only 21 through 12 games.

Chubb recorded 11 sacks last season and led the NFL in forced fumbles with six. Both of his Pro Bowl nods came earlier in his career while with the Denver Broncos.

Goode, a seventh-round pick in the 2022 NFL draft, played all 17 games last season but the majority of his snaps came on special teams.

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Broncos haven’t had a pass rusher as productive as Nik Bonitto in 6 years

Nik Bonitto (10.0) is the first Bronco to record double-digit sacks since Von Miller (14.5) and Bradley Chubb (12.0) did so in 2018.

Nik Bonitto’s historic pace continues.

The Denver Broncos‘ pass rusher recorded one sack in a 29-19 win over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, bringing his season-long total to 10 sacks. Bonitto became the team’s first player to record double-digit sacks in a single season since Von Miller (14.5) and Bradley Chubb (12.0) did so in 2018.

Amazingly, Bonitto said after the game that he’s never had a double-digit sack season since high school. He posted 0-, 3.5-, 8- and 7-sack seasons in four seasons at Oklahoma before being drafted by Denver in the second round of the 2022 NFL draft.

Pressure from Bonitto and Jonathon Cooper helped force a game-changing interception against the Raiders:

As a team, the Broncos have recorded 44 sacks this year, which ties for the second-most through 12 games in franchise history. The team’s all-time record was 47 sacks through the first 12 games of the 1986 season.

Bonitto and Co. will look to keep the momentum going when Denver hosts the Cleveland Browns on Monday Night Football in Week 13.

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Mike McDaniel: Bradley Chubb return ‘not on my radar right now’

Bradley Chubb’s return to action isn’t coming any time soon.

Bradley Chubb is still on the Miami Dolphins’ physically unable to perform (PUP) list and that won’t be changing anytime soon.

“He’s not on my radar right now because guys get on my radar when they start getting close,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said of Chubb on Monday. “I just check in to make sure things are going appropriately and we don’t have major things happen. I don’t see that timeline.

“I think having a ACL plus in terms of what type of injury he had around New Year’s Day, I wasn’t expecting him as of yet, and I think he’s going to continue to work to try to get back sooner than later, but it’s not on my immediate horizon.”

That’s bad news for a Dolphins defense that has struggled to generate much of a pass rush in 2024. After recording three sacks in both their first and third games of the year, Miami has failed to record any sacks in the last two weeks.

Those struggles were exacerbated by the loss of Jaelan Phillips to a season-ending knee injury and, more recently, a fractured orbital for Zach Sieler.

Chubb, 28, had 11 sacks and a league-leading six forced fumbles when he suffered a season-ending ACL tear late in the 2023 season.

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Bradley Chubb not ready to return, Dolphins ‘optimistic’ about recovery

Mike McDaniel says he’s “optimistic” the Dolphins will get Bradley Chubb back in action at some point, but he’s still not ready yet.

Miami Dolphins pass rusher Bradley Chubb is still out of action as he works to return from an ACL tear he suffered on New Year’s Eve last season. While he’s eligible to make his return from the PUP list at any point, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel thinks it’s still too soon for Chubb to get back on the practice field.

“I don’t expect to see Bradley this week and, as far as weeks moving forward, we’ll see. I don’t expect that to happen this week,” McDaniel said Monday morning.

Chubb, 28, tore an ACL in 2019 while he was a member of the Denver Broncos and returned in 2020 to earn his first career Pro Bowl honors. But that injury happened in a September game, giving the pass rusher a few extra months to work towards a return.

“The way he’s attacked and the way he’s come back from a pretty serious injury. I’m optimistic that I will, for sure, [see him play in 2024] just because we haven’t had any setbacks or anything,” McDaniel said. “I’m optimistic for that, but I can promise you that whenever he is back, he couldn’t have been back any sooner.

“Whenever we are able to see him, that’s as soon as we could’ve gotten him, just because of the sweat equity he’s put in. You wouldn’t know as a teammate that he hadn’t practiced this year just because he’s been around for everything. He’s made sure to keep himself so involved and use his leadership voice as a positive. I’ll be excited for when he gets back on the field, I don’t know when that’ll be.”

The Dolphins could use Chubb’s presence. Only three teams have fewer sacks through the first six weeks, and Miami’s pass rush took a blow a couple weeks ago when Jaelan Phillips suffered a season-ending knee injury.

For now, the Dolphins are relying on Emmanuel Ogbah, Chop Robinson, Quinton Bell, and Tyus Bowser at outside linebacker. Ogbah is the only one of that group who has recorded a sack so far this season. There’s also fifth-round rookie Mohamed Kamara, who hasn’t yet made his NFL debut.

Chubb, who was acquired by the Dolphins in a trade during the 2022 season, has 39.5 career sacks and finished 2023 with 11 sacks.

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Anthony Weaver: Bradley Chubb likely to return ‘at some point this year’

Anthony Weaver’s update on the health of Bradley Chubb doesn’t sound like he expects the pass rusher back soon.

There haven’t been many updates about the health of Miami Dolphins outside linebacker Bradley Chubb, who suffered an ACL tear on New Year’s Eve last season. On Friday, Dolphins defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver didn’t offer the most encouraging signs about Chubb’s return.

“I truthfully have no idea [when he’ll return],” Weaver told reporters Friday. “He’s in all of our meetings so he certainly gives me the feeling that we will see him at some point this year.”

Chubb, 28, is currently on the Dolphins’ physically unable to perform (PUP) list and is eligible to make his return as early as Week 5. But Weaver’s update doesn’t seem to indicate that the team expects to see the pass rusher back on the practice field next week.

Miami’s defense could use the boost, though. Through three weeks of the 2024 season, the Dolphins have recorded six sacks, more than only nine teams. Last year, the Dolphins’ 56 sacks ranked third most in the NFL. Four of Miami’s six sacks so far have come from defensive linemen Calais Campbell, Zach Sieler, and Da’Shawn Hand.

Chubb led the Dolphins in sacks last season with 11, the most he’s recorded since notching 12 as a rookie with the Denver Broncos in 2018.

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Broncos’ order of picks in 2025 NFL draft

The Broncos hold six picks in the 2025 NFL draft, including their own selections in the first four rounds.

Following the trades for quarterback Russell Wilson and coach Sean Payton in back-to-back offseasons, the Denver Broncos are scheduled to have first-, second- and third-round draft picks in 2025 for the first time since 2021.

Denver also holds its own fourth-round pick next year. Not until the fifth round will the Broncos have any pick swaps coming into play (pending future trades).

Here’s a look at the team’s order of picks in next year’s NFL draft, with help from prosportstransactions.com.

Broncos order of picks in 2025 NFL draft

Denver does not hold a fifth-round pick after trading that pick and pass rusher Bradley Chubb to the Miami Dolphins in 2022 in exchange for running back Chase Edmonds and first- and fourth-round draft picks. (The Broncos later used that first-round pick to acquire Payton in 2023.)

Denver also does not hold a seventh-round pick after trading that selection and tight end Albert Okwuegbunam to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2023 in exchange for a sixth-round pick.

The 2025 NFL draft will be held in Green Bay from April 24-26.

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Mike McDaniel announces Bradley Chubb, 2 others to stay on PUP list

Mike McDaniel says three of the four Dolphins players currently on the PUP list will stay there. The other is “TBD.”

The Miami Dolphins have until Tuesday to decide if the four players currently on their physically unable to perform (PUP) list will come off and be available Week 1, or stay and be forced to miss at least the first four games of the season.

“Isaiah Wynn, Cam Goode, and Bradley Chubb will start [the season] on PUP,” Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel revealed Monday morning.

That leaves one other player, Odell Beckham Jr., with an undetermined status.

“TBD (to be determined), TBD. More information required,” McDaniel said of Beckham.

Wynn, Goode, and Chubb all ended the 2023 season on injured reserve. Beckham spent last season with the Baltimore Ravens and it’s unclear what injury has kept him out since signing with the Dolphins earlier this year.

A rule change in 2024 also means that the Dolphins will be allowed to place up to two players on the injured reserve Tuesday with a designation to return. Previously, a player would be forced to miss the entire season if they were placed on IR without spending at least a day on the 53-man roster.

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