Looks like Tua Is Done in Miami

He had several big surgeries in college. He never completely got over that hip injury.

Somebody else will take him.

Miami is going to fire their HC.

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Tua has gone from leading the NFL in passing to below average in a couple of years. Not sure exactly why...maybe cumulative concussions...no idea, but he doesn't look even close to prime Bama Tua.

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The hip, the concussions, the knee and ankle, guy's body has been beaten like a drum for years at this point. His performance really started to reflect it. Guy deserves retirement and maybe he ends up on TV or something, who knows.

He's always had the laid back personality, but for whatever reasons it just looks like he's lost the desire. Maybe the cumulative injuries just caught up with him. That was a terrible contract Miami gave him (for them, not him lol)...no other team would have approached that contract in free agency. They stupidly just paid the "going franchise QB rate" when they were basically bidding against no one because Tua has the "system QB" tag...and he was elite in that system for 2 seasons. Jacksonville did the same thing with Lawrence, but they're a playoff team so it doesn't look as egregious.

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Looks like Tua Is Done in Miami

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This is tough because on one hand I think Miami has been a very poorly managed franchise. The owner is actually pretty good at not meddling but he just can't hire a GM worth that amount of free rein. Tua has enjoyed one season where his OL ranked in the middle of the pack in the NFL. The rest of the time, he's essentially had a bottom tier OL unit. It is criminal that a GM drafts a QB with Tua's injury history and he's had a functional OL 1 out of 6 years.

On the other hand, Tua is legitimately a shell of his former self. I think the hip injury limited him and he's been losing zip on the ball every year since he returned from that injury. The interception he threw in the MNF game was cocky and dumb thinking he could beat cover 2 on a corner route with no underneath receiver to hold the corner. He doesn't have the arm to even consider that throw anymore. Maybe he could've beaten that corner bailing from the flat in 2018 or 2019 but not in 2025. Truthfully, no quarterback should ever make that throw.

And that's the other part. I think his processing speed is abysmal now. He has trouble identifying coverages and he's late with the ball too often. The compounding effects of several concussions may be really impacting Tua in an aspect of his game that ought to have kept him on the field as a mid-tier starter for several more years: throwing the ball accurately and on-time short to medium.

So Tua has no zip on any ball in the air longer than 20-30 yards. He is not a decisive pitch and catch receiver underneath. As tough as it is for me to say it about a Crimson Tide hero, he's not a starter caliber QB in the NFL anymore.