OT: what would u do in Tua’s Situation?

Declare for the draft and go pro.  He will be a first round pick.  If he slides a bit he might end up in a better situation.  Big Ben slid to the Steelers and that was the luckiest thing that happened to him.  Going to the wrong franchise can wreck a QB's career.  He should get paid,  spend the year learning and getting healthy.

I don’t think he’ll have a problem getting drafted fairly early in the first round. Teams will be willing to wait and possibly tank for the year in hopes of loading up for the next season when he’s healthy.

There is no doubt that he has an insurance policy that covers him for an unexpected draft slide due to injury. I would go pro, cash in on my insurance and hopefully your slide took you to a good team where you can develop. Someone will no doubt take him and doctors in the NFL are better capable of assisting with your injury.

He should pray

 Since rumors have been around that the Dolphins want him, he needs to ask himself if he wants to play for the Dolphins.

He should never play football in college again.  I'm a Bears fan, and I would definitely draft Tua with one of their 2nd round draft picks, even knowing he won't play next year.  That should be his floor.

Enroll at ‘bama’s world renowned engineering school and make bank for the next 50 years.

Go pro. 

If he comes back healthy/good then he'll be 1-2 years closer to free agency which more than makes up for any earnings drop from draft position.

Um yeah, I'm going to spend my Sunday thinking about it. right.

Depending on severity of injury he could go 1st to a 5th rd....If the prognosis is good, someone would definitely take him in first.  Unfortunately he was looking at maybe being #1 overall.  I feel bad for him as he seems like someone you want to root for even before injury.

The Blueprint is there. Jalen Smith.

I think he should go pro. A team will take a chance on him in one of the mid rounds.

• He will have access to better medical staff and training
• He will get paid during his rehabilitation
• If he gets injured again at Bama in his senior year he is never going to play in the NFL.
• He needs to get paid as soon as possible, as his career has already been shortened with this injury. 
• If he does well in the NFL he can still get a really good second contract. 
• Getting drafted in a later round of the draft is very good money for a young person. 
• Even if he does well at Bama in his senior year, NFL teams will still have doubts about his health. 

It depends on whether he thinks he can ever play again (the report of a Bo Jackson-like avascular necrosis are scarier than this thread leads on.

If he can't ever play again, he can can maybe still strategize himself into some type of football payday by getting drafted in a middle round and securing a contract. Alternatively: move on to life after football.

If he can play again, that's complicated by whether he could possibly return to form. If so, and if that is doable by September, then of course he  should return to Alabama. If he can return to football but never again to this level, I  think he again is best off trying to trick an NFL team into giving him a midround contract anyway.

can't really make a call until the outcome of the surgery is determined, as well as how well the healing and rehab process goes

No nfl is touching him till he plays football again. 

He can rehab on Alabama's dime. No brainer.

You guys are being way too positive about his chances.  It’s very possible this is a career ending injury.  See eg Bo Jackson.  But even if it isn’t - ie even if he doesn’t have the Bo Jackson complication - the odds of developing arthritis in the medium term and needing a hip replacement are very high.  This is a catastrophic and tragic injury for a serious athlete. He wouldn’t get drafted on the first two days of the 2020 draft.

decent discussion here:  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/tua-tagovailoa-injury-surgeons-expert-insight-on-dislocated-hip-status-surgery-rehab-future-outlook/amp/

By all accounts Tua is a good guy.  He seems humble and hard working.  I respected his demeanor after a tough loss to LSU.  A lot of smiles and hand shakes.  He does play for the Death Star but I appreciate good people from wherever they come from.  I hope he fully recovers from this injury and gets to the NFL.

I think he forgives anymore college football and e gets draft. He’s been hurt a fair amount in his tone there and don’t think he’s going to chance it anymore. Not sure he would improve his draft stock a lot unless he were to win Heisman. 

Bengals fan here: Tua could do better than 13 of 31 for 115 yds and a QBR of 39 (Finley’s day vs Oakland), while undergoing the surgery. I’d take him in the 1st. Franchise QBs don’t grow on trees. The juice is worth the squeeze. 

Enter the portal and end up at Michigan in 2021 for his senior season.

Why I'd come to MGoBlog and get a list of options and tally which one gets mentioned most!

I still don't get the hype. He'll be an NFL bust.

I would never draft Tua. The dude has officially taken the title of Mr. Glass away from Greg Oden. With his injury history, he will have another fracture somewhere else. Heck, maybe he is Mr. Glass for real and has a mild form of osteogenesis imperfecta or can't deposit calcium in his bones?

I'd probably transfer and sit the year. It's unlikely Alabama has a place when he comes back considering how well they recruit for a one year QB (I could be wrong, haven't looked at their recruits). But he could still transfer to a solid P5 team that has space and show the NFL his skill, assuming (we all hope for the kid's sake) it's still there. The NFL might take a flyer on him in a later round, but if he shows he's fully back he could still be a top pick. 

I can't believe anyone's actually suggesting Tua come back to Bama, even just to rehab and wait for the 2021 draft. The chance he plays another down of football for Alabama is 0% (why risk getting hurt again before landing an NFL contract?) -- so why not get drafted now and rehab on some team's payroll? NFL teams are desperate for good QBs, and Tua has shown enough arm talent on film that he doesn't need a combine or pro day to prove he can make all the NFL throws. As long as he shows decent medical/rehab progress by the time of the draft, some team is gonna take him in the first round -- as others have said, if he slides, some smart team toward the back half of the first round without an immediate QB need will be happy to snatch him up. Worst case scenario, he falls to the second round -- and that's still good money.

Look at Jaylon Smith -- he was a projected top 10 pick who wrecked his knee, including serious nerve damage, in his last bowl game at Notre Dame. The Cowboys thought highly enough of him that they took him near the top of the second round, even knowing he'd have to sit at least a year and might never recover enough nerve function to play again. (It helped that their own doctor did the surgery on Smith's knee.) That's worked out pretty well for them -- and that was for a linebacker, for heaven's sake. Unless Tua's own doctors come out sometime before next April and say, "Tua will never play again," he'll get drafted.