The NFL common season remains to be months away — so the league’s 24/7 information cycle has shifted to tiers and rankings.
Mike Tannenbaum, who hung out as common supervisor of the New York Jets and govt vice chairman of soccer operations for the Miami Dolphins, shared his place overview for quarterbacks Monday night time.
He listed Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes because the league’s finest quarterback, whereas Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence was marked as an “rising quarterback.” For quarterbacks within the AFC East, Josh Allen, of the Buffalo Payments, is the “most sturdy” — whereas Tua Tagovailoa is listed because the league’s “least sturdy” quarterback.
As a rookie, Tagovailoa missed a sport after jamming his thumb in apply and performed in 10 video games all through the 2020 season (whereas competing with Ryan Fitzpatrick for the beginning job). He performed in 13 video games in every of the final two seasons. In 2021, he was positioned on injured reserve with fractured ribs. Final season, Tagovailoa missed a handful of video games as a consequence of head accidents.
Whereas Miami’s franchise quarterback has missed his fair proportion of video games — we’re not breaking information by noting that soccer is a tricky, bodily sport the place most gamers take care of quite a lot of accidents each-and-every season.
That being mentioned, Tagovailoa is working to keep away from future head accidents by studying judo all through the offseason and solely time will inform if it helps negate the accidents.
Tagovailoa’s damage historical past is value mentioning, however after throwing 25 touchdowns and simply eight interceptions all through 13 video games — whereas main the league in passer score — one comparatively wholesome season is all it could take to alter the narrative surrounding the 2018 SEC Offensive Participant of the 12 months.
