Tua Tagovailoa insists quitting the NFL is not on the cards, despite a number of worrying head injuries during his career.
The Miami Dolphins quarterback, who has been plagued by concussions over his five-year stint, was sidelined for five weeks following another during the Week 2 game against the Buffalo Bills.
If you look at that play again, I looked to the right before I scrambled to see where the marker is before I go for it and dive for it. So I’m sort of re-tweaking everything.”
Yet, despite recently voicing that he didn’t want to become “the poster boy for concussions”, Tagovailoa appeared to be in a precarious position after going head-to-head with Rams’ linebacker Christian Rozeboom.
Confronted with queries regarding his tackling technique, he admitted to reporters, “I wasn’t planning on using my head [to tackle him]. I didn’t feel any ill-effects..”
The quarterback did concede, however, “It was pretty bad tackling form though. From the second it happened, obviously [it was] not a good feeling.”
Reflecting on the incident’s repercussions, he acknowledged: “I ended up making a decision that obviously everyone that has supported me – and everyone that doesn’t support me that has been looking and watching that game – would be like, ‘Dude, what are you doing?'”
