What Jalen Ramsey said about his status for Sunday. And Dolphins personnel notes

A six-pack of Dolphins notes on a Friday:

▪ Fresh off signing a three-year, $72.3 million contract extension, Jalen Ramsey indicated Friday that he’s unsure if he will play in Sunday’s home opener against Jacksonville (1 p.m., CBS) because of a hamstring injury.

The Dolphins listed him as questionable.

“It’s tough,” he said of the hamstring and the decision regarding Sunday. “First time I’ve ever had a hamstring. Even times I felt like I’m good, I had to trust the training staff to know even if you feel like that, we can’t have you go crazy.”

Ramsey practiced on a limited basis Friday after practicing only once in three weeks because of the injury. So is he playing Sunday?

“I always want to play football whenever I get the opportunity,” he responded. “I never take it for granted. It’s one thing you learned from me last year [with his July knee injury], any timeline I get, I try to break them. I also got to trust the training staff and the coaches and hold myself back sometimes and be smart. It’s a struggle, but that’s what we’re working through right now.

“We’ll see. We’ll see when game day gets here [about] my availability. This is a different thing with a hamstring. I’ve never dealt with a hamstring. I could be feeling good, but they [the training staffers] know how certain things go. We are taking it day by day for real.”

Ramsey was asked about the Dolphins playing two games in five days -- Sunday and then Thursday at home against Buffalo.

“That’s a big key to this whole equation, two games in five days,” he said. “Maybe people don’t realize that’s huge. Never trying to look ahead like that. [But] taking everything into the equation you got to think about it all.”

Only one other Dolphin has an injury designation for the game: receiver Malik Washington, who is out with a quadriceps injury.

After missing most of August with a hand injury, Aaron Brewer will start at center on Sunday. Mike McDaniel said Liam Eichenberg will be the starting right guard.

▪ Edge player Emmanuel Ogbah, who was unemployed a week before training camp, not only received an opportunity to return to the Dolphins, but returns as a starter after logging just 246 snaps (25 percent of Miami’s defensive snaps last season) under defensive coordinator Vic Fangio last season.

Ogbah — who started 25 games for the Dolphins between 2020 and 2022 — won a starting job in Bradley Chubb’s absence and is clearly a better fit in new coordinator Anthony Weaver’s defense than Fangio’s.

“It felt good for coach to have trust in me,” Ogbah said of Weaver. “Now it’s time to show why they believed in me.”

What does Weaver have him doing that he couldn’t under Fangio?

“Rushing the quarterback — getting after the quarterback,” Ogbah said. “... I like what he has me doing, [like a] Swiss Army Knife.”

Chubb will miss at least the first four games while continuing to recover from a torn ACL sustained on Dec. 31. Jaelan Phillips is the Dolphins’ other starting outside linebacker, but coach Mike McDaniel implied he would be on a pitch count on Sunday in his first game after last November’s Achilles tendon injury.

▪ Rookie running back Jaylen Wright said he expects to be “anxious” and feel “nervousness” in the early stages of his first NFL game Sunday.

“Once I get my first contact, it all goes away,” he said. “When the opportunity comes, I’ll make the most of it.”

▪ If you missed this, Tyreek Hill predicted Monday that Jaylen Waddle will be an “All-Pro this year. He’s taken his game to another level in the classroom. He’s taking it more serious. He’s moved to the back of the classroom with me and River [Cracraft]. He’s asking more questions, which is great.”

Asked about those comments and whether he made any changes this year, Waddle said Thursday: “I think I’m just focusing more in meetings. You know I’ve been in this offense for the last three years, but I’m really focused on the details. So going back there with him and River that really know the ins and outs of this offense, just making me better and ultimately going out there and playing faster on Sunday.”

▪ Defensive lineman Calais Campbell said he was “very shocked” to be voted one of the Dolphins’ eight captains because “I haven’t really been here that long. I didn’t go to OTAs, so it’s just hard for someone that hasn’t been here a long time to be voted captain. I try to be very vocal and try to say the things I think were necessary for us to be able to be a good team, and that goes to show me that my team is very receptive and like what I’m saying which is really good. I was very shocked, but very honored.”

▪ Quick stuff: Linebacker Phillips, on playing Sunday less than 10 months after the Achilles injury:

“I’ve been busting my [butt] every single day for nine months now, so it’s very rewarding to be able to get out on the field and I’m excited.”...

CBS will have Tua Tagovailoa, Terron Armstead and Austin Jackson talk among themselves on a feature on “The NFL Today” at noon on Sunday.