{"id":210756,"date":"2025-07-16T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/210756\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:03:10","slug":"dolphins-qb-tua-tagovailoas-contract-pays-him-extra-money-if-he-stays-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/210756\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa&#8217;s contract pays him extra money if he stays healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tua Tagovailoa has struggled with availability during his NFL career.<\/p>\n<p>He knows it, and so do the Miami Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what makes Tagovailoa&#8217;s contract incentives so telling.<\/p>\n<p>Each incentive involves a win, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/contracts\/incentives\/_\/year\/2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:per Spotrac;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">per Spotrac<\/a>. There&#8217;s $250K to be had for a wild card win. Then it&#8217;s $500K apiece to win in the divisional round and the conference champoinship.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And if Tua and the Dolphins bring home the Super Bowl, he earns an extra $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a catch: Tagovailoa doesn&#8217;t earn any of those paydays unless he plays 50% of the regular season snaps.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\/news\/buffalo-bills-huge-break-pursuit-toppling-chiefs-chasing-super-bowl\/83299a212c0fec29ee55cfdb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bills get a huge break toward knocking off the Chiefs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bills get a huge break toward knocking off the Chiefs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tua obviously would take those big wins even if he missed most of the season, and so would the Dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>But the contract incentivizes a healthy Tagovailoa, something that hasn&#8217;t been a given.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;ll be enough to somehow keep him out of harm&#8217;s way and give Miami a chance at a deep postseason run behind the left arm of Tagovailoa.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MORE NFL NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tua Tagovailoa has struggled with availability during his NFL career. He knows it, and so do the Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[346,217,7,216,251,2087,6,7877,3452],"class_list":{"0":"post-210756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-dolphins","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-dolphins","13":"tag-miamidolphins","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-tagovailoa","16":"tag-tua-tagovailoa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114861166352959040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}