The Miami Dolphins now have up to half a dozen players on the injury list.

The last such move involved wide receiver Anthony Schwartz, who suffered a knee injury during the season finale against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Schwartz, who was born in the South Florida town of Pembroke Pines and played two seasons for the Cleveland Browns, was hoping to make the 53-man roster or at least secure a spot on the practice squad.

Instead, Schwartz joined the following players on the injured list: WR Tahj Washington, OL Kion Smith, LB Cam Brown, LB Grayson Murphy and OL Sean Harlow. Veteran Willie Snead IV was also placed on the injured list, but he was released with compensation for his injury.

The six players on the injured list are out for the season unless they receive injury compensation like Snead. They can sign with another team immediately after receiving compensation, but must wait at least four games before they can re-sign with the Dolphins.

In addition to the players on the injured list, the Dolphins have four other players on the active/physically unable to perform list: WR Odell Beckham Jr., LB Bradley Chubb, OL Isaiah Wynn and LB Cameron Goode.

The Dolphins must reduce their active roster to 53 players by 4 p.m. Tuesday and make a decision regarding the four PUP players. They can choose to move them to the reserve/PUP or add them to the active roster.

Any player who begins the season as a reserve/PUP player must miss at least the first four games.

As in previous years, the Dolphins are permitted to recall eight players from injured reserve for the regular season. Such a designation can be used twice for the same player (each counts once).

What is new, however, is that two of those designations can be made on Tuesday. In the past, a player had to be on the initial 53-man roster to be eligible to return, meaning a player had to be cut to make room for the injured player until he could be placed on the injured list the next day – as was the case with Jalen Ramsey last year, for example.

Given the nature of his injury, wide receiver River Cracraft may be the most logical candidate for Tuesday’s injured list. He suffered an upper-body injury while catching a touchdown pass from Tua Tagovailoa in the preseason win over the Washington Commanders.

Another part of the IR rule is that each playoff team is allowed to carry over any IR return designations it did not use during the regular season, plus it receives two additional return designations.

The Dolphins used their eight IR return designations last season on Cracraft, Ramsey, Terron Armstead, Robert Jones, Jeff Wilson Jr., Chris Brooks, De’Von Achane and Jerome Baker.