The Miami Dolphins are practicing against the Detroit Lions this week, but one player will not be participating as Mike McDaniel will not activate Darren Waller.
Waller has missed every practice so far this year because McDaniel doesn't want to bring him back too soon. The veteran tight end spent a year out of football on the retired list. At some point, the Dolphins have to stop coddling him, but it won't be this week.
McDaniel said that he would not throw Waller "into the fire of joint practices out of retirement." He has been using this excuse since he arrived.