Miami Dolphins coach Joe Philbin isn't worried about the injury status of two of his offense's biggest potential contributors for 2015 despite their significant injury issues.

Left tackle Branden Albert, recovering from reconstructive knee surgery, is on schedule with his return to the field and that means he might pass his physical when players report on Wednesday. The expectation is he will not be on the physically unable to perform list for the start of camp.

"The hope is -- and once we get guys through physicals when they come in in a couple days we'll know more -- but the hope is to move him out of the rehab portion and into the football portion," Philbin said Saturday. "And we have to do it in a way that makes sense. It's not going to be first day, every team rep, here we go, let's do an Oklahoma drill and let him and the guys whack people around. That's step one. Getting him out of the rehab mode and into the football practice mode and in the gradual progression of getting back."

Albert has set the first game of the regular season as his timetable for returning to the field. Philbin is perhaps a bit more optimistic because the coach is thinking Albert could play in the preseason.

"The perfect scenario is get him some work in some preseason game and get him ready to play first," Philbin said.

Rookie wide receiver DeVante Parker, recovering from foot surgery, is not going to be ready for practice at the start of training camp. He is a candidate for the physically unable to perform list.

"Whenever the medical staff tells us he's ready to go we'll get him out there," Philbin said. "... Hopefully, we'll get him back sooner as opposed to later."

Despite the fact Parker won't be 100 percent in time for Thursday's first training camp practice, the coach has little doubt he'll be ready for the regular season.

"It's hard to predict if Week One he'll be ready for 30 snaps or 60 snaps," Philbin said. "It's hard to put a number on it yet. We're not there yet. He's back in town. Right now he's been working, doing what he can do. And you got to let that stuff heal."

In the meantime, the Dolphins can use Parker's rehab time to get a better sense of the rest of their wide receiver talent and perhaps even experiment with tight ends.

"We're going to look at different combinations. I think we still have a talented room there with [Kenny] Stills, [Jarvis] Landry, [Greg] Jennings. And [Rishard] Matthews. We've got [Matt] Hazel," Philbin said. " Dion Sims it appears is continuing to develop so maybe we'll look at more two-tight end combinations with fewer receivers on the field. But obviously the focus is get [Parker] medically ready to roll and schematically, to the degree we can, we'll keep him engaged in the meantime."

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[BLOG NOTE 2: Matthews was not included earlier among the group of receiver mentioned by the coach because it is not clear on tape whether the coach mentioned him. But enhancing the audio suggests Philbin did mention him between Jennings and Hazel.]