2020 NFL Scouting Combine Winners and Losers: Quarterbacks

As the 2020 NFL Scouting Combine provides us with more information about this year’s draft prospects, we are taking a position-by-position look at the winners and losers from Indianapolis.

Winners

Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama

Reporting from the Combine, our own Jeff Haverlack noted the optimistic buzz regarding Tagovailoa’s speedy recovery from the season-ending hip injury suffered November 16th against Mississippi State.

Following two days of medical testing, #Bama QB Tua Tagovailoa received overwhelmingly positive reports on his dislocated hip from teams who examined him, sources say. The MRIs were as clean as hoped, fracture is healed, there is no loss of blood flow. One source: “Looked great."

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 26, 2020

Still rehabbing the injury, Tua attended the Combine only to talk to the press and to teams, to submit to initial medical evaluations, and to make an announcement: he anticipates full medical clearance by March 9th, and he will hold a personal pro day one month later on April 9th.

Medical documentation and positive team assessments backing up encouraging recovery reports, however, place him firmly in the winners category heading into the next stage of the pre-draft process.

Apparently, his initial meeting with Dolphins brass “felt weird” due to a surprising-to-Tua lack of overt enthusiasm on their part. His well-evidenced return to good health, though, makes it likely that the Alabama phenom is the second quarterback taken in April.

Three months ago, no one was sure he’d be here, so the positivity counts as a win in my book.