Tua Tagovailoa leading Miami Dolphins' playoff push after making retirement stance clear

Tua Tagovailoa was sidelined aft suffering a concussion successful Week 2 - with the Miami Dolphins prima having since returned to assistance animate his squad to 3 consecutive wins

Tua Tagovailoa's prime to defy status calls pursuing a bid of caput injuries has been justified connected the pitch, arsenic helium spurred the Miami Dolphins to 3 consecutive wins.

The backmost was benched aft suffering a concussion during his team's Week 2 face-off against the Buffalo Bills, making his comeback successful Week 8 against the Arizona Cardinals. In the clip betwixt his return, determination was speculation astir whether the 26-year-old should deliberation astir retiring.

This marked the 3rd clip that Tagovailoa had suffered a concussion successful his NFL career, starring to wide interest wrong the shot assemblage astir his health. However, the Dolphins prima aboriginal confirmed that helium had been symptom-free during his 5 weeks of recovery.

Since his instrumentality against the Cardinals, the Dolphins person enjoyed 3 consecutive wins, establishing a 5-6 grounds and putting them successful the moving for a playoff spot. Despite Miami's beardown run, they'll request to support winning to unafraid a postseason place. A challenging travel to Green Bay to instrumentality connected the 8-3 Packers is up adjacent connected Thanksgiving.

Tagovailoa's teammates had floundered without him, with the Miami discourtesy ranking arsenic the worst successful the NFL this play anterior to his return. Since his reintroduction, the quarterback's power has boosted the squad - with the prima throwing 4 touchdown passes successful the latest triumph implicit the New England Patriots.

After bouncing backmost from injury, Tagovailoa was wide astir his aboriginal successful the sport, stating: "It ne'er stuck successful my caput that I was ever reasoning of retiring."

"Whether the doctors told maine that oregon not, it would person conscionable been accusation for me," helium continued. "With what I was doing moving retired week-to-week, I'm successful present everyday. It's similar a no-brainer, what americium I moving hard for then?"

Reflecting connected a concussion helium suffered successful Week 2, helium recounted: "I would accidental from the 2nd it happened, evidently not a bully feeling being retired connected the field, knowing the situation. Trying to bash each I tin to get a archetypal down, not knowing, tin I descent successful this situation? It was distant down. Can I slide? Do I person to spell for it?

"If you look astatine that play again, I looked to the close earlier I scrambled to spot wherever the marker is earlier I spell for it and dive for it. So I'm benignant of re-tweaking everything."

Tagovailoa past revisited the infinitesimal of interaction with Bills antiaircraft backmost Damar Hamlin, admitting: "I wasn't readying connected utilizing my caput [to tackle him]. I didn't consciousness immoderate ill-effects. It was beauteous atrocious tackling signifier though. From the 2nd it happened, evidently [it was] not a bully feeling.

"I ended up making a determination that evidently everyone that has supported maine - and everyone that doesn't enactment maine that has been looking and watching that crippled - would beryllium like, 'Dude, what are you doing?'"