Tua Tagovailoa searched for the words to describe how he feels about his current contract situation with the Miami Dolphins.
Frustrated? Concerned?
“Not frustrated, but I’m another word,” Tagovailoa said Tuesday at the Dolphins’ first day of mandatory minicamp.
After a brief pause, Tagovailoa lifted his shoulders in a slight shrug.
“Just wanting to get something done,” he conceded, “That’s it … Antsy might be a good word.”
Tagovailoa is entering the final year of his rookie deal and looking to join several other quarterbacks in his 2020 draft class who have signed lucrative contracts. He will play on a $23.1 million fifth-year option in 2024 if a deal is not reached.
Dolphins manager Chris Grier wants to keep Tagovailoa in Miami long-term.
“We’ve been in communication since the offseason began,” Grier said in February. “Our goal is to try and get something done. … We’ll see. There is no timeline on it. At the end of the day, you know how these deals get done. They are complicated deals.”
Tagovailoa’s draftmates, Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert and Jalen Hurts, all reset the quarterback market with their extensions last year. Lions quarterback Jared Goff just secured a four-year, $212 million contract in May that will pay him $53 million a year — around the amount that Tagovailoa will likely get with his new deal.
Tagovailoa said there’s been progress made between his agent and the Dolphins, but he has paid attention to other quarterback deals.
“I’m not blind to people that are in my position that are getting paid,” said Tagovailoa, the fifth overall pick in 2020. “Am I concerned about it? I’m not concerned about it, but there’s a lot of discussion that we’ve had that we just are trying to move that thing into the right direction where we can both be happy.”
Tagovailoa is coming off his best season, both statistically and health-wise.
He led the NFL with 4,624 yards passing in 2023, while also setting career highs in completion rate (69%) and touchdown passes (29). He…
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