{"id":91606,"date":"2025-12-21T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91606\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T17:08:07","slug":"7-players-ruled-out-for-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91606\/","title":{"rendered":"7 players ruled out for Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec. 21, 2025, 11:37 a.m. ET<\/p>\n

The Miami Dolphins<\/a> made their benching of Tua Tagovailoa official Sunday morning, but the more significant news in the team’s list of inactives is the shelving of Nick Westbrook-Ikhine.<\/p>\n

With three games left in the regular season, the Dolphins<\/a> are out of contention for a playoff spot. By benching Westbrook-Ikhine<\/a>, there’s a chance Miami could position itself to receive a fourth-round compensatory draft selection in the 2026 NFL draft.<\/p>\n

With Westbrook-Ikhine out of action, the Dolphins will have Jaylen Waddle, Malik Washington, Cedrick Wilson, Dee Eskridge, and Theo Wease at receiver against Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Here are all seven Miami players who aren’t playing against the Bengals<\/a>:<\/p>\n

QB Tua Tagovailoa (emergency third quarterback)WR Nick Westbrook-IkhineS Minkah FitzpatrickCB Isaiah JohnsonOT Kendall LammWR Tahj WashingtonDT Matthew ButlerNeed a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are the Bengals’ seven inactives:<\/p>\n

QB Jake Browning (emergency third quarterback)WR Charlie JonesCB Bralyn LuxS PJ JulesDE Joseph OssaiTE Noah FantDT Jordan Jefferson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 21, 2025, 11:37 a.m. ET The Miami Dolphins made their benching of Tua Tagovailoa official Sunday morning,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,123,125,124,5102,10773,10774,298,49262,9873,4344,10928,34935,20599,20596,38724,2577,45105,342,332,442,49261,49,300,20600,5100,34],"class_list":["post-91606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-accessfree","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-oh","tag-sstssportsnfldolphins","tag-sstsndolphins","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagcedrick-wilson-jr","tag-tagcincinnati","tag-tagcincinnati-bengals","tag-tagdwayne-eskridge","tag-tagjake-browning","tag-tagjaylen-waddle","tag-tagmalik-washington","tag-tagmatthew-butler","tag-tagmiami-dolphins","tag-tagminkah-fitzpatrick","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagnick-westbrook-ikhine","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtahj-washington","tag-tagtua-tagovailoa","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91606","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=91606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}