Tua Tagovailoa‘s rib injury will keep him out of the Dolphins’ Week 3 game in Las Vegas, Brian Flores said Wednesday. Flores said additional testing revealed fractured ribs, Jeff Darlington of ESPN.com tweets. This marks a bit of a step up from Tua’s “day to day” assessment.
While the third-year Dolphins HC stopped short of indicating Tagovailoa would need to be placed on IR, such a scenario would not be surprising. This represents another setback for the former top-five pick, who has yet to find his NFL footing.
Jacoby Brissett replaced Tagovailoa in the Dolphins’ 35-0 loss to the Bills and will start against the Raiders. The Dolphins signed Brissett to a one-year, $5MM deal this offseason. Should this situation morph into a Tagovailoa IR stay, Brissett would have a reunion game in Week 4, when the Dolphins face the Colts. The Dolphins will match up against the Buccaneers in Week 5.
Entering the NFL after a severe hip injury ended his junior season early, Tagovailoa also missed a game due to a thumb injury as a rookie. The former Alabama superstar threw four passes before going down in Week 2.
This setback may intensify Deshaun Watson rumors, with the Dolphins being the team most closely connected to the Pro Bowl passer. Despite owner Stephen Ross‘ potential interest in acquiring the embattled Texans quarterback, the Dolphins have balked at the Texans’ steep asking price. Houston is believed to have turned down an offer including three first-round picks, seeking a haul including other high picks and/or established players as well. The Texans have made Watson a healthy scratch for their first two games.
Not surprised Tagovailoa is out with him being injury prone through out his college career & now going into his 2nd pro season, Tagovailoa has so far proven to be the wrong draft pick for the Dolphins last year
I won’t argue whether or not Tua should have been their pick (I’m not a big believer in him, but they had to make some sort of move at the position).
But I will argue that’s it’s absolutely indefensible that the Dolphins have been putting such an awful offensive line in front of Tua week after week. If you’re going to invest in a young quarterback, you had better also be investing in improving your offensive line. The Dolphins line looks like a row of turnstiles more often than not.
In the past two drafts they have taken a total of 3 offensive linemen in the first two rounds. That’s a pretty solid investment (although as many picks as they’ve had I think they could have thrown even more at the position). The question is whether or not they were the right picks. They are still young and have time to develop, but if it doesn’t happen quickly then it’s time someone is held accountable.
Injury prone? It’s not like he pulled a muscle, he’s got fractured ribs. Maybe, just maybe, he needs an offensive line. I think maybe the Dolphins might need to make a draft investment on the OL rather than serve him more milk.
Yes he is injury prone
1) March 20 2018 Hand Fracture needed surgery
2) October 13 2018 Patella strain
3) November 10 2018 Quad strain
4) December 1 2018 Ankle sprain needed surgery
5) October 19 2019 Ankle sprain needed minor surgery
6) November 16 2019 Right Hip dislocation needed major surgery
7) November 25 2020 Thumb sprain
8) September 19 2021 Fractured Rib
SO as I said he is injury prone