Miami Dolphins: 3 expectations for Tua Tagovailoa in 2021

Tua Tagovailoa needs to stay healthy in 2021.

I will be the first person to tell you injuries stink, and they are uncontrollable. Anyone can get injured on any given week, and getting injured in the NFL day is not a rare occurrence. If Tom Brady can tear his ACL and miss an entire season, anyone can get injured and miss a season. And the reason I’m saying this is because there is talk regarding Tua Tagovailoa’s health and if he is “injury prone.”

That injury-prone label is one you want to avoid as a player because once one person says it, many people start saying it. Is Tagovailoa injury prone? I think it’s too early to decide, but I will say this; Tagovailoa’s injuries aren’t injuries that happen all the time. His horrific hip injury was as rare as they come, and the injury seems more like an outlier than anything.

Also, it is impressive for Tagovailoa to come back from that injury, so kudos to him for doing so. He had the ankle injury at Alabama too, which required surgery, so that’s of significance and worth noting. And then he had the thumb injury in 2020. It’s worth noting that none of these injuries really connect or have any sort of trend, which is why I think it’s unfair to label him as injury-prone.

I believe injury prone is when a player pulls a muscle all the time or has a few years in a row of the same injury or same type of injury.

Tagovailoa could have another freak injury this year, as I said anyone can, but one of his expectations for 2021 is to stay healthy and not sustain an injury. By doing so, he will check off a box that his haters will no longer be able to use.