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Jimmy Wilson Returns to Practice

Dolphins nickelback Jimmy Wilson missed last week's game against the Chicago Bears due to a hamstring strain suffered in Week 6 against the Green Bay Packers.

From the looks of it, he'll be available this week against Jacksonville, as Omar Kelly of the Sun Sentinel reported that Wilson returned to full-contact practice on Wednesday.

There's no guarantee that Wilson will play on Sunday—if he doesn't play, he will be replaced by Michael Thomas and Jamar Taylor—but if he is good to go, Miami gets back a player who has been decent this season since moving back from safety to nickelback.

It would help the Dolphins if Wilson can play on Sunday. It would be better to ease him in against the Jaguars than throw him to the fire in Week 9 against a more powerful San Diego Chargers offense.

Dion Jordan Expected to Play on Sunday

It's not easy being the Jacksonville Jaguars offensive line.

It has allowed 29 sacks so far this season, putting it on pace for 66 sacks, which would make last year's Dolphins offensive line look like the Richmond Webb/Keith Sims-led Dolphins offensive lines.

To make matters worse, Jacksonville gets Miami's defensive line coming to town on Sunday, a line that might just be the best collective unit in the NFL.

Now imagine that unit getting back Dion Jordan.

That's exactly what will happen, according to Andrew Abramson of The Palm Beach Post. Jordan, who's returning from suspension, will be making his season debut.

While he won't be on the field full time, the Dolphins should cook up plenty of packages to exploit Jordan alongside the linemen and linebackers already on the field.

Bill Barnwell of Grantland Suggests the Dolphins Trade Mike Wallace

I'm not immune to this, as I've suggested in the past that the Dolphins should trade their top wide receiver midseason.

Only that was during a lost season, one where Miami's starting quarterback had gone down for the season (and turned out to be a major bust) and where the Dolphins had lost their first seven games.

With that being said, Grantland's Bill Barnwell's idea to trade Mike Wallace makes absolutely no sense in the context of this season.

Here's the reasons and rationale behind Barnwell's suggestion:

Wallace hasn’t been the same guy in Miami that he once looked like in Pittsburgh. While he did catch a key touchdown pass from quarterback Ryan Tannehill in Sunday’s victory over the Bears, he has struggled to get on the same page with the former Texas A&M star during his time in Florida. Wallace’s line in Miami, prorated to a 16-game season, has him catching 75 passes for 937 yards and seven touchdowns. That’s functional, but hardly worth the highest positional cap hit in football. The Dolphins will have to consider getting out of Wallace’s contract as early as 2015, a move that would be made easier if Jarvis Landry continues to show flashes of being a viable future weapon in the Miami offense. Just $3 million of Wallace’s base salary is guaranteed after this season, and if the Dolphins traded Wallace before the trade deadline or during the 2015 offseason, they would save $3.3 million on their 2015 cap and be free of the contract afterward.

I learned two things while reading that, and I will break those two things down one by one.

First, Barnwell must not have seen a single Dolphins game this season. Here are Wallace's statistics: 30 receptions for 359 yards and five touchdowns.

Reading from that, it doesn't look very impressive, but then there's the game itself, which shows Wallace drawing double-teams and opening up the middle of the field.

He mentioned how such a move would be made easier if Jarvis Landry continues his good play, but look at the game film itself: Why do you think Landry has been so productive? Might it have to do with the fact that Wallace is drawing double-teams, thus leaving a rookie wide receiver open?

Did Barnwell consider that at any point in his analysis?

Barnwell also notes how Wallace and Tannehill have had issues developing chemistry. Based off of what I've seen this season, those issues seem to have been left back in 2013 with Jonathan Martin, Richie Incognito and "Blurred Lines."

In 2014, the chemistry is there between the two players, and while they haven't connected deep yet, they have developed a strong rapport.

There is a reason why Wallace is Miami's leading receiver after all.

Then there's the second thing I learned: Barnwell might not know how to do ratios.

Seeing Wallace's stat line that I wrote above, how could you expect him to only catch seven touchdowns?

I did the math myself, and while he came out close on the number of receptions and yards, I find it hard to believe that Wallace will only score two more touchdowns in the final 10 games of the season.

Here is the math, which you learn in sixth grade and includes me showing the work:

Doing simple 6th grade math here's what @Wallace17_daKid is projected to finish with (and yes, I showed my work) pic.twitter.com/4mbGWGkVbe — Thomas Galicia (@thomasgalicia) October 24, 2014

That actually seems much more realistic than Barnwell's projections considering how big a part of the offense Wallace has been in 2014.

Thus far, Wallace is Miami's 2014 offensive MVP, and the Dolphins are a fringe playoff team—and could drop the "fringe" part with victories in two of their next three games. Why would they trade him now?

Why would they trade (or release) Wallace in the 2015 offseason, either? The smarter move would be to release Brian Hartline (replaced as the No. 2 receiver by Landry) and then draft a big receiver in the draft.

But we'll have that discussion in the spring. For now, I can tell you that Barnwell's idea of trading Wallace to get out of his contract is not a sound one, and his facts are lacking.

Now tomorrow, I'll have to call every math teacher I told that I'll never use algebra as a sports writer after they chastised me for not doing well on the test.