{"id":529293,"date":"2024-07-26T15:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T22:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?p=529293"},"modified":"2024-07-26T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T22:34:57","slug":"qb-tua-tagovailoa-lands-richest-deal-in-dolphins-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/qb-tua-tagovailoa-lands-richest-deal-in-dolphins-history\/","title":{"rendered":"QB Tua Tagovailoa lands richest deal in Dolphins history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>July 26, 2024 &#8211; 3:17 PM PDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=index-1209.html alt=\"Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (1) throws the football during mandatory minicamp at Baptist Health Training Complex. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports\/File Photo\" class=\"wp-image-529296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EL2M3TA6TFJLNEMWOQ5XS2KQIA.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EL2M3TA6TFJLNEMWOQ5XS2KQIA-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EL2M3TA6TFJLNEMWOQ5XS2KQIA-768x513.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (1) throws the football during mandatory minicamp at Baptist Health Training Complex. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports\/File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Miami Dolphins and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa agreed to a four-year, $212.4 million extension, his agency confirmed with ESPN on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new contract includes $167 million guaranteed and is the largest in Dolphins history. The $53.1 million average annual ranks third in the NFL behind Trevor Lawrence of the Jacksonville Jaguars and Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, both at $55 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tagovailoa, 26, led the NFL with 4,264 passing yards in 2023. He started all 17 games (11-6 record), completing 69.3 percent of his passes with 29 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A first-round pick (fifth overall) by Miami in 2020, Tagovailoa has thrown for 12,639 yards with 81 TDs and 37 picks in 53 career games (51 starts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tagovailoa made his NFL playoff debut last season, completing 20 of 39 passes for 199 yards with one touchdown and one interception in a 26-7 wild-card loss at Kansas City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been a limited participant or non-participant for the first two days of training camp, but practiced in full at Friday&#8217;s session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Dolphins and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa agreed to a four-year, $212.4 million extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":529296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9461,19303,3642,42752,51121,26011,65227,3627,134964,50117,373,42746,66295],"class_list":["post-529293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-espn","tag-football","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-joe-burrow","tag-kansas-city","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoff","tag-quarterback","tag-sports","tag-trevor-lawrence","tag-tua-tagovailoa"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/EL2M3TA6TFJLNEMWOQ5XS2KQIA.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529302,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529293\/revisions\/529302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}