A surprise on Dolphins final injury report. And personnel notes and the blitz question

The Dolphins will be without receiver Jaylen Waddle on Sunday in Baltimore and guard Robert Hunt is unlikely to play because of a hamstring injury.

Meanwhile, cornerback Jalen Ramsey now is dealing with a knee injury and was limited in practice on Friday. That’s a new issue that popped up; he wasn’t on the Wednesday or Thursday injury reports.

Ramsey and six others were listed as questionable for Sunday: Cornerback Xavien Howard (hip/thumb), safety Jevon Holland (knees), running back Raheem Mostert (knee/ankle) and offensive linemen Lester Cotton (hip) and Liam Eichenberg (calf/ankle) and Austin Jackson (oblique). All of those players were limited during Friday’s practice.

Among those seven, coaches said they expect Mostert to play, and Mike McDaniel said he’s “optimistic” about Holland playing this weekend after missing four games in a row with sprained MCLs in both knees.

Jackson, who was active but didn’t play last week because of an oblique injury, said he feels “pretty good about playing Sunday, feels great” about it.

Howard and Eichenberg have been playing through their injuries.

Though Hunt increased his practice workload on Friday, he was listed as doubtful with the hamstring injury that has forced him to miss six of the last seven games, including the past three.

Waddle (high ankle sprain) was the only Dolphins player listed as out for the Ravens game (1 p.m., CBS).

Tua Tagovailoa, who was limited on Wednesday and Thursday with a thumb injury on his throwing hand and an oblique injury, took all the first team snaps this week and will play on Sunday. He practiced fully on Friday and does not have an injury designation.

Tyreek Hill (ankle), Robbie Chosen (out of concussion protocol) and De’Von Achane (toe) also do not have an injury designation; they are good to go for Sunday.

Two key Ravens are questionable for Sunday: receiver Zay Flowers (calf) and safety Kyle Hamilton (knee).

THIS AND THAT

▪ The Dolphins flummoxed Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson in a 22-10 win, on a Thursday night 25 months ago, by running 40 “Cover Zero” blitzes, a stunningly high number.

Then-coordinator Josh Boyer had Holland blitz on 21 snaps, Brandon Jones 17. Both blitzed more than any NFL safety had in a game since at least 2016.

It would be stunning if defensive coordinator Vic Fangio did anything like that; he blitzes less than many coordinators. But could such a blitz-heavy approach work against Jackson now?

Jones, asked this week, was not certain.

“A lot of teams started doing it after we did,” he said. “They have some answers for it now. I was a defensive end the entire game [that night]. It was super unique, something you’ll remember forever.”

Jones said that Jackson’s ability to read defenses “is very underrated. That’s very overlooked because he’s so athletic.”

▪ Dolphins linebacker Bradley Chubb is tied for 14th in the league with 11 sacks, but he has been kicking himself for the ones he missed.

Bringing down Jackson comes with particularly unique challenges.

“You got to focus big time on finishing,” Chubb said. “That’s been the thing on my year. It’s the thing I’ve been trying to work on and not get frustrated with. I’ve just got to go out there and the next opportunity I get, finish.”

Outside linebackers coach Ryan Slowik and Chubb have watched tape of the sacks that Chubb has barely missed.

“There’s no harsher critic of Bradley Chubb than Bradley Chubb,” Slowik said. “He will never tell you there’s nothing he could have done. Some of those instances [near sacks], we talked about techniques he could have used to solidify the end result of play. He has been playing really well.”

▪ Armstead, on why he and Raheem Mostert have excelled over 30 (Armstead is 32, Mostert 31): “We know that’s the mark that people look for the decline or whatever. The narrative’s been written for us. It’s been a cap on what I’d be able to do, what Raheem would be able to do.

“We write our own stories. Regardless of what this play was or what this game was, I know who I am. I know the work I put in. And same thing for Raheem.

“He’s had injuries. He’s been cut. He never wavered from what he believed in and himself writing his own story. Record holder. Franchise record holder. Who would have thought? Him. He thought it the whole time.”

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