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The Dolphins selected Tua Tagovailoa with the fifth overall option, obviously believing in her surgically repaired hip and her future. But what that means for this season remains to be seen.
Since Tagovailoa is not working on the field with the team this offseason, coach Brian Flores acknowledges that he will have to see the quarterback in some practices before determining what Tagovailoa can do. Veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick is expected to start the season as Miami’s starting quarterback.
The team’s doctors examined Tagovailoa before the NFL team’s facilities closed in March.
“Yes, he was examined, but again, ‘examined’ and then doing a two-hour practice and playing a game, there is a process for all of those things,” Flores told Hal Habib of the Palm Beach Post on Tuesday. “So, as to whether or not he can do something, it would be difficult to say.”
Tagovailoa underwent hip surgery Nov. 18 in Houston after injuring himself in one game. The former Alabama quarterback was fully authorized to compete without restrictions before the draft, his surgeon wrote to all NFL teams.
However, the Dolphins have not yet had a chance to see him on their practice field.
“My hopes don’t go up or down until I see a boy in a group,” Flores said. “Until I see a boy go through practice, multiple practices, it is difficult to say that we are doing this, that or the other at the speed of the game. That is for anyone.
