Miami Dolphins Hit With Brutal Tua Tagovailoa Reality Check

This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.

Tua Tagovailoa’s future with the Miami Dolphins appears to have an inevitable end. The veteran quarterback had a terrible 2025 NFL season, in which he threw for 20 touchdowns and 15 interceptions.

Mike McDaniel benched and replaced Tagovailoa with rookie Quinn Ewers for the final stretch of the season. Everything suggested that he would exit the team in the offseason. With McDaniel out and Jeff Hafley as the new head coach, Tagovailoa’s fate appears sealed.

He has been mentioned in multiple trade rumors during the offseason, but it doesn’t seem that the Dolphins will get something in return from the former Alabama quarterback.

Miami Dolphins Would Cut Tua Tagovailoa This Offseason

Tua Tagovailoa’s $54 million guaranteed money doesn’t make him the most desired player in the market. ESPN’s Dan Graziano believes the Dolphins won’t have more options than cutting him.

“The problem is that $54 million guarantee, which would transfer to whichever team trades for Tagovailoa and likely prevents any deal from getting done unless the Dolphins are willing to pay down a massive portion of it,” Graziano wrote. “More likely, Miami will end up having to cut Tagovailoa and swallow $99.2 million in dead money cap charges as a result of a long-term extension that looks extremely ill-advised in retrospect.”

Tagovailoa joined the Dolphins in 2020. He has thrown for 18,166 yards and 120 touchdowns. As good as he was in his first four seasons, he has regressed in the past two years.