Tua Tagovailoa is cleared to start for the Miami Dolphins after clearing concussion protocol

Tua Tagovailoa has been cleared to commencement for nan Miami Dolphins connected Sunday.

The backmost will make his long-awaited return to nan section against nan Arizona Cardinals aft clearing concussion protocol connected Friday.

Sunday marks 45 days since he suffered a sickening concussion which came erstwhile he initiated interaction pinch Buffalo Bills information Damar Hamlin connected a scramble alternatively of sliding.

Tagovailoa returned to believe earlier this week and was a constricted performer. He still had to beryllium fixed nan greenish ray from medics and beryllium activated from injured reserve earlier he could play.

The erstwhile Alabama star, who said this week he won't beryllium wearing a Guardian cap, has had 4 documented concussions successful his assemblage and NFL careers, including 2 successful 2022. 

After nan latest one, he spent a batch of clip talking to doctors, neurologists and different wellness experts amid claims he could locomotion distant from football.

He concluded moving guardant pinch his profession was nan correct call.

'Just sewage to beryllium smart,' Tagovailoa said. 

'My full clip playing football, I've been a competitor and that is aliases was benignant of my separator erstwhile I would tally from precocious school, moreover successful assemblage I would do nan aforesaid thing. 

'This is nan master level, nan champion of nan best, you conscionable can't beryllium doing that.

'So decidedly sewage to enactment much disposable for nan team, for nan organization, for our guys.'

The Dolphins person their eyes group connected a abrupt summation successful points arsenic they count connected Tagovailoa injecting backmost value that has been lacking.

An explosive onslaught that was 1 of nan champion successful nan convention has struggled to find nan extremity area without him. Miami scored 40 full points successful nan 4 games Tagovailoa missed.

Standout receivers Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle mixed for 191 receptions, 2,813 yards and 17 scoring receptions past season. They person 46 catches, 563 yards and 1 people done six games this season.

Hill, though, was highly optimistic Wednesday. 'We're back, baby,' Hill told reporters. 'Strike up nan f***ing band. We're back.'