{"id":738973,"date":"2026-02-08T22:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/738973\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:24:14","slug":"dolphins-expected-to-move-on-from-qb-tua-tagovailoa-in-2026-via-trade-or-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/738973\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins expected to move on from QB Tua Tagovailoa in 2026 via trade or release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trading Tagovailoa is a possibility, but the Dolphins would likely have to eat a large chunk of his $54 million fully-guaranteed salary for 2026 and another $45.2 million dead cap charge would immediately hit this year, per Pelissero.<\/p>\n

Cutting Tagovailoa, on the other hand, would allow the Dolphins to spread the nearly $100 million in dead cap across the next two years, per Pelissero.<\/p>\n

The writing has been on the wall for the Dolphins moving on from the No. 5 overall pick of the 2020 NFL Draft due to the QB’s decline in 2025. Tagovailoa even admitted a fresh start would be “dope”<\/a> after his midseason benching in 2025.<\/p>\n

As for star Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill<\/a>, who is coming off a major knee injury entering what would be his age-32 season, he too has a $16 million guarantee on March 13. Considering it’s unclear when and even if Hill will be able to play in 2026, Miami could also let the eight-time Pro Bowler go in the coming weeks, per The Insiders.<\/p>\n

Following the dismissal of Mike McDaniel, who developed and championed Tagovailoa’s rise, it’s no surprise the new Dolphins brass, which includes new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan and head coach Jeff Hafley, are looking for a fresh start.<\/p>\n

Hill’s potential exit accompanying Tagovailoa’s would certainly mark the end of an era in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trading Tagovailoa is a possibility, but the Dolphins would likely have to eat a large chunk of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,251,88,6,609,3452],"class_list":{"0":"post-738973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-miami-dolphins","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-no-minute","14":"tag-tua-tagovailoa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116037357599129723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738973","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=738973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}