Tua Tagovailoa led the NFL with a completion percentage of 72.9 in 2024. It was the most accurate season in Dolphins history, and third-best in NFL history, behind two Drew Brees campaigns. Tagovailoa has two seasons to show Miami he is everything they hoped he'd be.

Tagovailoa has made 17 starts in a single campaign just once (2023) since the Dolphins selected him in the first round of the 2020 draft. He has suffered three reported concussions since the fall of 2022, the most recent of which sidelined him for four games this past season. He also missed the campaign's final two contests due to a hip injury.