{"id":506144,"date":"2026-03-05T23:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506144\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:49:07","slug":"report-one-team-considered-taking-tua-tagovailoa-in-trade-with-a-miami-first-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506144\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: One team considered taking Tua Tagovailoa in trade \u2014 with a Miami first-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Dolphins have a problem. And there\u2019s apparently only one solution to it.<\/p>\n

They need to release quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.<\/p>\n

A trade is looking less and less likely. If a trade happens, it would have to be a Brock Osweiler-type deal, with the Dolphins giving Tua\u2019s new team something significant to take on Tua\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins owe him $54 million in 2026, fully guaranteed. They\u2019ll absorb a $99.2 million cap charge if\/when they cut him.<\/p>\n

As to the difficulty of making a trade happen, consider this. Via Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports, an unnamed \u201chigh-ranking team executive\u201d said that he \u201cconsidered taking on Tagovailoa if the Dolphins would send a first-round pick<\/a> to take on the freight of his contract.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017, the Texans sent a second-round pick in 2018 and a 2017 sixth-round pick to the Browns to get them to absorb Osweiler\u2019s contract, which had $16 million in full guarantees that year. (Houston received a 2017 fourth-round pick in return.)<\/p>\n

In 2021, the Rams did it in a more subtle fashion, essentially tucking an extra first-round pick into the Matthew Stafford trade to get the Lions to assume Jared Goff\u2019s guarantees.<\/p>\n

Whether the Dolphins find a taker for Tua remains to be seen. The compensation sent with Tua\u2019s contract will become less obvious if it\u2019s part of a bigger trade. <\/p>\n

Regardless, the Dolphins will have to give someone else something valuable to take on a large chunk of the $54 million Tua is owed this year, thanks to an ill-advised contract that former G.M. Chris Grier gave to Tagovailoa two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins have a problem. And there\u2019s apparently only one solution to it. They need to release…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-506144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}