Report: Tua out for year … Further updating the injury to Alabama junior QB Tua Tagovailoa, there are unconfirmed reports at this hour that Tagovailoa will indeed miss the rest of the season with a dislocated hip with a posterior wall fracture. Tagovailoa, one of the top 2-3 prospects for the 2020 draft, was carted off the field late in the first half of today’s win over Mississippi State after going down awkwardly as he was trying to throw the ball away. Alabama head coach Nick Saban, who is taking considerable heat for the fact that Tagovailoa, who was a game-time decision for the Tide because of that ankle injury he suffered several weeks ago, was still in the game with the Tide leading 35-7 up late in the 1st half. Tagovailoa could not put any weight at all on the leg and was reportedly in intense pain when he was taken off the cart in the locker room. Tagovailoa was sent to hospital by ambulance and then choppered home to Birmingham where he is expected to undergo surgery in the next day or so. And obviously one doesn’t want to get ahead of oneself, but this type of injury in the past has been career threatening for other players. If that wasn’t bad enough for Alabama, just several plays after #13 was injured, star DT Raekwon Davis, another likely first round pick this year, was also helped off the field with an apparent ankle injury. Stay tuned!
