‘No Plans To Retire’ After Newest Concussion

For the fourth time in 5 years, Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was recognized with a concussion. The newest harm got here on Thursday evening through the workforce’s 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Payments, as Tagovailoa tried to choose up a primary down together with his legs, dove, and collided with Payments security Demar Hamlin.

After his newest concussion, the requires Tagovailoa to retire are louder than ever — it received to the purpose that a present NFL head coach, Antonio Piece of the Las Vegas Raiders, stated he ought to retire and that “it’s not value it.” However in accordance with Ian Rapoport of NFL Community, the Dolphins sign caller doesn’t intend on happening that street.

“Tua Tagovailoa and his medical doctors will likely be making the selections about his enjoying, his well being, they are going to be driving the method,” Rapoport stated. “My understanding is that Tua Tagovailoa has no plans to retire, no plans to retire. Actually, his eyes are already on returning to the soccer discipline. So far as when that goes, we merely have no idea, each concussion is completely different, the way in which each participant responds to a concussion is completely different. He will likely be wholesome sufficient to play, when he’s wholesome sufficient to play, when he and his medical doctors resolve that. That stated, he has already begun the method of seeing a concussion specialist as he did in 2022, wouldn’t be shocked if he noticed the identical medical doctors. The aim is to get on the sphere when he’s prepared, and that’s one motive Mike McDaniel didn’t put a timeline on it. Wouldn’t even deal with it, timelines result in anxiousness. So far as the soccer goes, wouldn’t be shocked if he misses a number of video games, as Mike McDaniel stated, Skylar Thompson the beginning quarterback going ahead.”

Adam Schefter of ESPN had a really comparable report, saying that Tagovailoa will meet with neurologists this week and can enter that assembly with no plans to retire.

Tagovailoa’s historical past with concussions is well-documented, as he suffered one in school at Alabama and two through the 2022 marketing campaign as a member of the Dolphins. This doesn’t embrace one other hit that he suffered in 2022, which led to the league altering its guidelines about reporting head accidents. Tagovailoa did say on the heels of his 2022 season that he thought-about retiring.

This previous offseason, Tagovailoa and the Dolphins agreed to a 4-year contract value $212.4 million, with $167.1 million assured.