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MIAMI — Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa will not play Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings, coach Mike McDaniel said Wednesday, but he will return to the practice field for football activities for the first time in nearly two weeks.
Rookie quarterback Skylar Thompson will make his first career start Sunday with both Tagovailoa and Teddy Bridgewater in concussion protocol. The Dolphins’ only other healthy quarterback is practice squad quarterback Reid Sinnett; McDaniel said it is too early to tell whether they’ll have to elevate him for Sunday’s game.
Tagovailoa was cleared by multiple independent neurologists to resume limited football activities, McDaniel said, which would put him in Phase 3 of the NFL’s return to participation protocol. It will be Tagovailoa’s first practice since sustaining a concussion in a loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sept. 29.
“In these situations, you are relying on all medical advice and what people can do and what we’ve been told is he can go out and throw and do some individual work this week,” McDaniel said. “So that’s exciting for everybody just because, you know, really we just miss his personality. He’s a guy that we rely on that, not to mention all of his play and all that stuff.
“Now, when talking about this week and playing, I don’t see a scenario — I don’t see him being active. I do not plan to have him play at all.”
There is a “definite scenario” in which Tagovailoa clears concussion protocol this week, but McDaniel said it would be a disservice to both Tagovailoa and the team if he were to play him Sunday.
“He hasn’t done a thing on the football field for literally two weeks,” McDaniel said. “So, I don’t think that that would be fair to the player. That wouldn’t be fair to the team … I don’t feel comfortable putting him in that situation.”
Tagovailoa was briefly hospitalized after hitting his head on the turf during the Bengals game, which occurred four days after hitting his…
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