The final injury report for the Los Angeles Rams vs Miami Dolphins game on Monday Night Football was released on Saturday afternoon. Among the players on Miami’s side to be rule questionable for that game are two important parts of their offense; wide receiver Tyreek Hill and full back Alec Ingold.
Alec Ingold and Tyreek Hill Questionable Vs. The Rams
Before the report was finalized, Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel commented on Hill’s wrist injury. He told reporters Saturday morning that Hill would play on Monday night “if his body lets him,” via ESPN, as Hills’ wrist injury was “heating up,” so the team wanted to “let it cool down.”
Hill has caught 34 passes for 446 yards and just one touchdown in eight games played this season but now that Tua Tagovailoa is back in the lineup, he has caught 10 passes for 152 yards. Hill has averaged 106.5 receiving yards per game with Tua Tagovailoa as the quarterback. However, without Tagovailoa, his average drops to 55.3 receiving yards per game.
At various times this season, the LA defense has struggled against versatile, particularly fast receivers. The Rams are allowing 225 yards per game and have allowed a receiver to pass the century mark in five of their eight games including 175 yards allowed to the San Francisco 49ers Jauan Jennings and 180 to the Seattle Seahawks Jaxon Smith-Njigba. The Las Vegas Raiders Brock Bowers was seven yards away from passing 100 yards and the Packers’ top two receivers Jayden Reed and Tucker Kraft put up 78 and 88 respectively against LA.
While Hill is a household name, Alec Ingold plays a big role in the Dolphins offense. He has taken 140 snaps this season, the 49ers are the only other team to use a full back more, and only slightly at that –143 for Kyle Juszczyk. The next inline is the Vikings CJ Hamm, who has 56 offensive snaps this season.
Football 301’s Nate Tice broke down how Ingold could have a big effect on this game.
“Why it’s good against the Rams is they do so much five down stuff, five [defensive linemen] across the board if you’re in two back looks that creates a lot of one on ones, if you run a zone. It’s five defensive line across, five offensive lineman. Run a zone it’s all one on-one blocks. Now, you have the fullback to fit up on the linebacker and then one guy misses their hole it’s out the gates.”
