Tua Tagovailoa's Recovery Shakes Up the NFL Draft

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🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Tua Tagovailoa came into the college football season with Alabama as "most likely to be the next number one overall pick" in the NFL draft. Then came a season-ending hip injury. With reports that his recovery is on track, Tua enters the draft as a game-changing wild card. Ahead of this weekend's NFL combine, ESPN's Todd McShay breaks down Tua's history and weighs where he'll end up in April's draft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I need to see him. I need to see him throw. I need to see him drop back. I need to see him do
0:05.8	football acclimated themes before the draft. I need to see him make the moves that he was making
0:10.6	in Alabama for me to make that decision. This time last year, Tua Tunga Bailoa was the consensus
0:19.7	number one overall pick in the upcoming NFL draft.
0:23.4	But when a devastating hip injury in November ended his season at Alabama, his NFL future was
0:29.1	cast into doubt. Now, with new reports that Tua's recovery is on track, teams are debating whether
0:36.7	his elite talent is worth the risk,
0:39.4	and the entire draft looks like a mystery.
0:44.0	I'm Mina Kimes. It's Tuesday, February 18th. This is ESPN Daily, presented by ADT.
0:54.8	Hey, Todd. Hey, Todd.
0:56.0	Hey, Mina.
0:57.0	Todd McShay is an NFL draft and college football analyst for ESPN.
1:01.3	So, Todd, the last time we saw Tua Tungaveloa on a football field, he was getting carted
1:06.4	off with a hip injury, and it ended his season and Alabama's title hopes along with it.
1:12.3	News broke last week regarding the status of his recovery.
1:16.8	What do we know now?
1:18.4	Well, first of all, I was there that day, and it was brutal to watch.
1:22.1	Pressure from behind.
1:24.5	He's down.
1:26.1	And two is down.
1:27.2	His helmet came off. This is exactly what you did not want to see happen
1:31.7	and I was probably 10 maybe 20 yards away from him as the two Mississippi State defenders converged on
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