MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins are putting Tua Tagovailoa on injured reserve after the quarterback suffered one other concussion in Thursday’s loss to the Buffalo Payments, a supply advised ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Tuesday.
Per NFL guidelines, Tagovailoa should stay on injured reserve for a minimum of 4 video games. There isn’t a timetable for the way lengthy Miami plans to maintain him on IR, as he focuses on his well being earlier than his return to the sphere.
It’s the third identified concussion of Tagovailoa’s NFL profession.
Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel on Monday mentioned Tagovailoa would not be positioned on IR till extra data turned accessible, however the resolution was made Tuesday after additional analysis.
Miami signed quarterback Tyler Huntley from the Baltimore Ravens’ observe squad Monday. Per NFL guidelines, the Dolphins should allocate a spot on their 53-man roster to Huntley for a minimum of their subsequent three video games.
“We received to study firsthand a pleasant reminder of the way it solely takes one play and what you suppose your depth is adjustments abruptly,” McDaniel mentioned. “In order that’s a transfer for transferring ahead to safe some depth in case of the unexpected which is timelines for us because it pertains to Tua.”
Third-year quarterback Skylar Thompson will begin Sunday’s recreation towards the Seattle Seahawks now that Tagovailoa has formally been dominated out.
Thompson didn’t play in the course of the 2023 season, however he began three video games as a rookie in 2022, together with a playoff loss on the street to the Payments. McDaniel mentioned the transfer so as to add Huntley “was not any direct reflection on Skylar” and was made to bolster the crew’s depth.
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.
“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 crew,” McDaniel mentioned of Huntley. “He is a man that is a sign caller {that a} crew can get behind. … I believe that is extra on to again up Skylar and you then at all times let competitors play out when it is out on the sphere. However this can be a depth transfer for certain.”
Tagovailoa suffered the damage whereas scrambling up the center for a primary down and making forcible contact along with his helmet to the forearm of Payments security Damar Hamlin. Tagovailoa instantly went right into a fencing response along with his arms in an unnatural place.
Medical trainers attended to Tagovailoa for a number of minutes as gamers kneeled round him. He was finally capable of stroll off the sphere and into the locker room below his personal energy however was shortly dominated out for the remainder of the sport.
The following 4 video games will push Tagovailoa’s profession complete to 14 missed video games to damage since 2020, though he performed all 18 of the Dolphins’ common season and playoff video games in 2023.
