Tua Tagovailoa Is Out, and Life in the NFL Marches On – The Wall Street Journal

Is there a relationship as simultaneously conflicted—and unconflicted—as the one between football and football fans? The country’s most-watched sport is, by design, collision-based, played with speed and ferocity. It can be thrilling to watch, but we all know the deal: It’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.

Here we are again, on the matter of the NFL and concussions, this time involving the 24-year-old Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who was thrown to the turf in a game versus Cincinnati last Thursday, head snapping backward, clenched hands jolting upward in an apparent sign of a brain injury. He was removed on a stretcher, watched by a solemn gathering of his Miami teammates—and a television audience of millions.