{"id":528815,"date":"2026-03-09T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528815\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:33:15","slug":"dolphins-to-release-tua-tagovailoa-take-on-record-cap-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528815\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins to release Tua Tagovailoa, take on record cap hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"af33088b-1e19-d27d-dbc0-354fd7151703\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-dolphins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolphins<\/a> will release quarterback <a data-player-guid=\"3858bbe0-6348-e3ef-5d9f-2dd2acb46f44\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4241479\/tua-tagovailoa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tua Tagovailoa<\/a> after the start of the new league year in a move that will leave Miami with an NFL-record $99 million in dead money against the salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins announced their intention to release Tagovailoa in a statement Monday. A source told ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter that Tagovailoa&#8217;s release will be designated post-June 1, allowing the Dolphins to split the dead money over two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we move forward, we will be focused on infusing competition across the roster and establishing a strong foundation for this team as we work towards building a sustained winner,&#8221; Dolphins general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan said in the team&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n<p>The post-June 1 designation likely will leave the Dolphins with a $67.4 million dead hit against their salary cap in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa was benched with three games remaining last season, after throwing for 20 touchdowns and a career-high 15 interceptions in 14 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dolphins will release quarterback Tua Tagovailoa after the start of the new league year in a move&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-528815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}