"Ronnie Brown was back on the sidelines for Wednesday's organized team activity at the Miami Dolphins facility, the result of having a screw removed from his surgically repaired right foot last week.

"It was precautionary," Brown said. "There's no soreness or any of that. The doctor told me to take two weeks off."

The screw, one of two inserted during surgery last November, was removed on June 2. The other screw will remain permanently to secure the area where the star running back suffered a Lisfranc fracture in Game 9 against Tampa Bay last season.

"We were going to get it taken out anyway," Brown said. "There's no reason to wait and not get it taken out when I can start training and get back in shape for the [training] camp. I figured I participated in minicamp. I don't know if we all expected that or whatever.

"But to be able to do that and be able to participate in OTA's tells me there's progress. It's going real well. I feel pretty good. To go ahead and get it out and get these two weeks out of the way where there's an inactivity period and then coming into the offseason, where I'll have an opportunity for six weeks to get back in shape for camp and be ready, it made sense.""