MIAMI — Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is not going to be positioned on injured reserve, coach Mike McDaniel stated Monday, not less than not till extra info turns into out there.
Tagovailoa stays within the NFL’s return to participation protocol after struggling a concussion in Thursday’s loss to the Buffalo Payments. McDaniel stated that it is too early within the course of to say whether or not Tagovailoa can be positioned on injured reserve however that he and common supervisor Chris Grier will make that call as soon as additional evaluations have been accomplished.
McDaniel declined to touch upon experiences that Tagovailoa is just not contemplating retirement and reiterated what he advised native media Friday — that Tagovailoa must be allowed to talk on his personal profession.
“So far as Tua’s profession is worried, I believe it is an utmost precedence of mine for Tua to talk onto his profession,” he stated. “I believe so far as I am involved, I am simply anxious in regards to the human being and the place that is at day after day. I will let Tua be the champion of his personal profession and communicate on that.”
McDaniel confirmed the Dolphins are signing quarterback Tyler Huntley from the Baltimore Ravens’ observe squad. Whereas the staff publicly insists there isn’t a timeline for Tagovailoa’s return, NFL guidelines primarily require gamers signed from one other staff’s observe squad to stay on their new staff’s 53-man energetic roster for not less than three weeks.
Groups can launch the participant earlier than the three-week minimal however can’t substitute him on their energetic roster till the requirement is happy.
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McDaniel stated Friday that he expects Tagovailoa to overlook this week’s recreation in opposition to the Seahawks and that third-year veteran Skylar Thompson will begin in his place.
“I’ve no doubts in my thoughts that Skylar’s going to go on the market and do the perfect he can in Seattle,” Dolphins defensive deal with Zach Sieler stated. “I’ve no hesitation about Skylar Thompson going on the market as QB1 this week.”
Huntley has began 10 video games in his four-year profession, principally for the Ravens. He was named to the Professional Bowl in 2022 after serving to information them to the playoffs instead of Lamar Jackson. He began Baltimore’s playoff loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Thompson, however, didn’t play through the 2023 season however began three video games as a rookie in 2022, together with a playoff loss on the street to the Payments.
McDaniel stated the transfer so as to add Huntley “was not any direct reflection on Skylar” and was made to bolster the staff’s depth.
“I do suppose that it helps the dynamics of the [quarterbacks] room so as to add one other man with beginning historical past to this staff,” McDaniel stated. “[Huntley is] a man that is a signal-caller {that a} staff can get behind. … I believe that is extra on to again up Skylar, and then you definately all the time let competitors play out when it is out on the sector. However this can be a depth transfer, for positive.”
