{"id":811675,"date":"2026-03-14T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/811675\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:34:25","slug":"falcons-officially-sign-qb-tua-tagovailoa-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/811675\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Officially Sign QB Tua Tagovailoa To One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Falcons announced Friday that they\u2019ve officially signed QB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/T\/TagoTu00.htm?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=nfltraderumors.co&amp;utm_campaign=2026-03-13_pfr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tua Tagovailoa<\/a> to a one-year contract for the veteran minimum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tua to The A! \ud83e\udd19<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DyRI5BYuv1\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/DyRI5BYuv1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U8OwbXmN2V\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/U8OwbXmN2V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Falcons (@AtlantaFalcons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AtlantaFalcons\/status\/2032558366770249773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa had a $54 million fully guaranteed salary. The June 1 designation will split the NFL-record $99.1 million dead cap hit into either $67.4 million\/$31.8 million or $55.4 million\/$43.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Once he\u2019s officially released in the next few days, he\u2019ll be free to sign for the veteran minimum salary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa, 27, was selected with the No. 5 overall pick out of Alabama in 2020 by the Dolphins. He signed a four-year, $30,275,438 rookie contract with a $19,578,501 signing bonus. He earned a base salary of $1,010,000 in the final year of his deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins picked up Tagovailoa\u2019s fifth-year option worth $23,171,000 for the 2024 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From there, the team re-signed him to a four-year deal worth up to $212 million, with $167 million guaranteed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Tagovailoa appeared in 14 games for the Dolphins and completed 67.7 percent of his passes for 2,660 yards, 20 touchdowns, and 15 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the latest NFL Insider News &amp; Rumors?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Be sure to follow <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nfltraderumors.co\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL Trade Rumors<\/a> on <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nfltrade_rumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.com<\/a>\u00a0and <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nfltraderumors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0for breaking NFL News and Rumors for all 32 teams!<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Falcons announced Friday that they\u2019ve officially signed QB Tua Tagovailoa to a one-year contract for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2074],"tags":[223,254,2554,224,7,6,3452],"class_list":{"0":"post-811675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-falcons","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-atlantafalcons","11":"tag-falcons","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-tua-tagovailoa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116226848492682179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811675","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=811675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}