Cam Smith's injury won't cost him too much time, says Mike McDaniel

Miami Dolphins second-year cornerback Cam Smith left training camp practice with a trainer on Sunday and was absent from the Monday session. Head coach Mike McDaniel, who is typically reticent about sharing information about injuries, wasn’t too concerned about Smith, though.

“Based upon the severity of the injury and his previous injury history, let’s say that training camp and preseason games won’t be compromised in terms of their entirety,” McDaniel said. “He should be able to participate in that. I don’t know when that’ll be.”

The nature of Smith’s injury hasn’t been revealed.

The Dolphins are banking on a sophomore leap for Smith after the 2023 second-round pick spent almost all of his rookie year watching from the sidelines. In June, Smith told reporters that while he didn’t get the opportunities he wanted, he took advantage of the chance to go “to school for a year” with Jalen Ramsey and Xavien Howard ahead of him on the depth chart.

But following the departures of Howard and Eli Apple, the Dolphins are banking on Smith or Ethan Bonner emerging as a reliable fourth option with Ramsey, Kendall Fuller, and Kader Kohou.