MIAMI GARDENS \u2014 Miami Dolphins tight end Darren Waller will return to practice this week as he works his way back from injured reserve.<\/p>\n
Waller will be designated for return at Wednesday\u2019s practice, coach Mike McDaniel said Monday.<\/p>\n
That will open up a 21-day practice window for him to get activated from IR ahead of one of the team\u2019s upcoming games, beginning with the New Orleans Saints at home on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Waller suffered a pectoral injury in the Oct. 19 loss to the Cleveland Browns. His placement on IR then put him out for the following four games, a stretch culminating in the Nov. 16 win over the Washington Commanders. He has since been afforded an extra week of recovery with the Dolphins on bye.<\/p>\n
Waller, who came out of retirement to play for the Dolphins this season and was a Pro Bowl selection in 2020, has recorded 10 catches for 117 yards and four touchdowns in three games before he didn\u2019t record a stat in the Browns game in which he was injured.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Dolphins offensive lineman Andrew Meyer could soon return to practice, according to McDaniel, but he didn\u2019t have a specific date.<\/p>\n
Meyer was hurt in training camp and has been on IR since. He made the team as an undrafted rookie in 2024 out of Texas-El Paso.<\/p>\n
McDaniel also said kicker Jason Sanders is \u201cdoing a great job getting healthier\u201d as he has been on IR since the preseason.<\/p>\n
The Dolphins coach said he has no timeline on veteran guard James Daniels, who suffered a pectoral injury three plays into the season. McDaniel said he doesn\u2019t know if Daniels will return this season, which has six games left.<\/p>\n
This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS \u2014 Miami Dolphins tight end Darren Waller will return to practice this week as he works…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114,123,1763,125,124,119,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-58978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-dolphins","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}