(CNN) — Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa doesn’t plan to retire after sustaining the newest of a number of profession concussions final week, sources advised NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport.
Tagovailoa was compelled off the sector throughout the Dolphins’ 31-10 loss in opposition to the Buffalo Payments on Thursday after diving for a primary down and taking successful from Payments security Damar Hamlin.
The 26-year-old has a historical past of concussions. He suffered a number of within the 2022 season and mentioned in 2023 that he had considered stepping away from football “for a time” as a result of affect of the pinnacle accidents.
On Sunday, Rapoport said on NFL Sport Day that Tagovailoa’s present objective is to get on the sector “when he’s prepared,” including that he wouldn’t be stunned to see the quarterback miss “a number of video games.”
Rapoport additionally mentioned that Tagovailoa has begun the method of seeing a concussion specialist, as along with his earlier accidents.
CNN has contacted Tagovailoa’s consultant for remark, whereas the Dolphins declined to remark.
“I’m not making an attempt to even take a look at, ‘Okay, how critical is that is relative to his previous [concussions]?’” Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel advised reporters on Friday. “Actually for me, I do know the information are that it’s necessary that he will get wholesome day-to-day and, in that, one of the best factor I can do will not be attempt to assess what this occasion means from a soccer standpoint.”
Requested about whether or not Tagovailoa is perhaps contemplating retirement, McDaniel mentioned that it “can be so incorrect of me to even sniff that topic.”
He added: “All of the science behind concussions tells you what we’ve discovered is how delicate the time is correct after an damage and the way necessary it’s that you simply don’t institute further sources of hysteria … The one two opinions that basically matter, which might be absolutely the driving power for what we’re doing at that place, (are) Tua and the docs. I don’t have any info from them.”
Tagovailoa guided the Dolphins to the playoffs final season and agreed to a four-year contract extension within the offseason, reportedly price $212.4 million.
Throughout final week’s sport at Laborious Rock Stadium, the Dolphins star stayed on the bottom after the deal with from Hamlin however finally walked off the sector underneath his personal energy. Backup quarterback Skylar Thompson got here on in his place.
Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce was amongst these calling for Tagovailoa to retire after sustaining one other concussion.
“It’s not price to play the sport,” Pierce advised reporters. “I haven’t witnessed something like I’ve seen that’s occurred to him 3 times. Scary. You possibly can see immediately the gamers’ faces on the sector. You possibly can see the sense of urgency from all people to get Tua assist.”
However talking on ESPN on Sunday, former New England Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi, who had a stroke aged 31 and later returned to play within the NFL, mentioned that he would assist Tagovailoa’s resolution to return again to soccer.
“The opposite factor to consider is that this: ‘I can’t exit like that,’” mentioned Bruschi, including, “To all of us, how we end our careers is so necessary, particularly whenever you get into your seventh, eighth, ninth years, and also you’ve been within the league and you recognize what it’s like and also you’ve seen all these nice gamers and all their careers ending.
“You might have your individual ending up right here in your thoughts. Tua nonetheless needs to win and he nonetheless needs to have a profession and I might assist him if he needed to return again.”
The Dolphins’ (1-1) subsequent sport is in opposition to the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Discipline on Sunday.
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