Dolphins hold off on activating Chubb, activate Goode and promote receiver. Bullock fined

The Dolphins held off on activating Bradley Chubb on Saturday but moved linebacker Cameron Goode to the active roster and elevated receiver Erik Ekukanma for Sunday’s game against visiting San Francisco (4:25 p.m., CBS-4).

The fact the Dolphins elevated only one wide receiver for Sunday’s game -- instead of two -- seemingly bodes well for the availability of Tyreek Hill, who is listed as questionable. Hill, Malik Washington, River Cracraft and Ezukanma are positioned to be the Dolphins wide receivers on Sunday.

Hill is listed as questionable due to both personal reasons and a wrist injury; the team hasn’t said which of those two has left his status more in question. But Hill usually plays when listed as questionable, and the fact the Dolphins bypassed elevating receivers Isaiah McKenzie or Tarik Black portends well for Hill.

On Thursday, Hill was adamant that he would play through the wrist injury for the remainder of the season, even if the team falls out of playoff contention.

The Dolphins are short-handed at receiver because Jaylen Waddle and Dee Eskridge are doubtful for Sunday’s game because of knee injuries. Also, Braxton Berrios, Grant DuBose, Anthony Schwartz and Tahj Washington are on injured reserve and Odell Beckham Jr. is no longer on the team.

Ezukanma, the team’s fourth-round pick in 2022, was released in late August and has spent the season on the practice squad. He has played 11 offensive snaps this season and just 50 in his career and has one career reception for three yards and five rushes for 22 yards. Ezukanma missed most of last season with a neck injury.

Chubb remained limited in practice all week as he makes his way back from serious knee injuries sustained in Week 17 against Baltimore last season. If he’s not activated by Christmas, he would be required to miss the remainder of the season.

Mike McDaniel was non-committal last week when asked if Chubb could be shelved for the season if the Dolphins fall out of playoff contention. Miami would be eliminated from contention if it loses Sunday.

Goode will be available for the first time since sustaining a torn patellar tendon while playing special teams in last season’s Week 18 game against Buffalo. The former seventh-round pick appeared in all 17 games last season, playing 309 snaps on special teams and 76 on defense.

Chop Robinson, Emmanuel Ogbah, Goode and rookie Mo Kamara are the Dolphins’ healthy edge players now on the 53-man roster. Linebacker Quinton Bell, who’s also on the 53-man roster, was added to the injury report Saturday due to illness; he’s questionable for the game.

To make room for Goode on the roster, the Dolphins released defensive tackle Neil Farrell, who essentially had been bypassed by Matt Dickerson on the depth chart in the past two weeks.

Left tackle Terron Armstead and right tackle Kendall Lamm remain questionable, but Armstead said he’s optimistic about playing and McDaniel expressed optimism as well about Lamm, who participated fully in Friday’s practice. The Dolphins opted not to elevate an offensive tackle, which bodes well for Armstead and Lamm.

Bullock fined

Texans safety Calen Bullock was fined $5916 for his helmet to helmet hit that left DuBose hospitalized with a head injury. Bullock was fined another $5916 for another illegal hit in the game. DuBose returned to South Florida on Wednesday and is doing well; he was back in the locker room this week but won’t play again this season.

▪ Running back Raheem Mostert admitted this week that he’s down about his reduced role. But he’s handling it professionally.

Mostert has just 16 carries in the last five games and 71 for the season, compared with 209 last season. He’s averaging 3.4 yards per carry, compared to 4.8 last season. And his three touchdown receptions are well below last season’s 21.

“My spirits are down, but at the same time, I’m healthy and feeling good,” he said. “I’ve got to go out there and protect myself.

“At some point, you do start trying to creep up in your head that you should be out there, you should be doing this, but I don’t let it happen. I try to be a team player and leader on this team and be there mentally. Who knows what the future holds? I’m not worrying about that. I’m worried about beating the 49ers.”

▪ Special teams coordinator Danny Crossman said Jason Sanders’ two missed extra points over the past two games were a result of “the timing” being “a little bit off. Sanders said “I felt quick in my operation on both.”

Sanders said “the good thing is the two I missed, I look up and I knew they wouldn’t go in or there was a small chance they would go in.”

Why is that good? Because he said when he knows that instantly, it’s easier to pinpoint the cause of the miss.