Miami Dolphins
The “tank for Tua” saga in South Beach ended up seeing the Dolphins select Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa with the fifth-overall pick at the 2020 NFL Draft. Despite that, Tagovailoa’s odds at winning the upcoming Rookie of the Year Award are evidently longer. The Dolphins’ new quarterback was given the eighth-best odds to win the hardware recently via Dolphins Wire.
The favorite is going to be obvious: No.1 overall pick for the Bengals, quarterback Joe Burrow. But Tagovailoa not being near the top makes sense currently because there’s one big question mark: When will Tagovailoa get on the field? Former Bills QB Ryan Fitzpatrick is also in the fold. Fitzpatrick knows that Tagovailoa will eventually get out there because of the investment the team put in him, but there’s plenty of reason to think that Tagovailoa will wait a few weeks before getting in there, especially because the current offseason is being affected so much by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
For what it’s worth too, the Bills play the Dolphins in Week 2 of the upcoming season, so if Fitzpatrick starts early, Buffalo might only face the fifth-overall pick once in 2020… or not at all.