Time to fly, Tua.

The Dolphins have named Tua Tagovailoa their new starter, the Miami Herald has confirmed, ushering in a extremely anticipated new age of Miami Dolphins soccer.

Brian Flores is popping to the No. 5 general decide through the crew’s bye week, and Tagovailoa will begin make his first begin on Nov. 1 towards the Rams. ESPN first reported the transfer.

The seismic information comes lower than 48 hours after Ryan Fitzpatrick — who ranks within the prime 10 in QBR — threw three touchdowns however two interceptions within the crew’s blowout win over the Jets.

Tagovailoa noticed his first NFL motion within the sport’s last moments, finishing his solely two passes for 9 yards.

Tagovailoa will change into the third of 4 rookie first-round quarterbacks to start out for his or her respective groups in 2020.

However not one of the different three has overcome what Tagovailoa has: a significant, late-2019 hip damage that threatened his profession and certain value him hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.

The Dolphins, displaying nice warning, had him sit behind Fitzpatrick and take in since gamers reported to camp in late July.

Each the crew and Fitzpatrick knew today was an inevitability. What nobody on the skin knew was that it will come at this level within the season.

“He’s been thrown into a really tough state of affairs in that he didn’t have any preseason, he didn’t actually have an offseason,” Dolphins offensive coordinator Chan Gailey mentioned Tuesday earlier than ESPN’s report went public.

“… I believe he has a fundamental understanding [of what we want to get done], however you don’t get the specifics if you happen to don’t get on the market. The specifics of issues, and feeling the pace of the sport, and all that sort of stuff is difficult. Hopefully as time goes on, we will proceed to have him develop and see how shortly he can get able to play at any time when which may be.”

Flores, who has not spoken publicly for the reason that quarterback change grew to become public, mentioned this on Monday about his choice to play Tagovailoa late towards the Jets:

“It was only a state of affairs to get him in and get him some snaps. We thought it was good for him, identical to any younger participant, to get in there and get a really feel for what it’s wish to play in a Nationwide Soccer League sport. That was actually it.”

This can be a growing story and shall be up to date as extra info turns into accessible.