{"id":303,"date":"2026-05-28T10:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:06:17","slug":"the-no-1-reason-tua-tagovailoa-could-be-the-falcons-starting-qb-is-already-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"The No. 1 reason Tua Tagovailoa could be the Falcons\u2019 starting QB is already on display"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. \u2014 Two weeks into Atlanta Falcons OTAs, Tua Tagovailoa\u2019s best trait has already popped for his new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=301\">Manhunt ongoing for Puna man suspected of three homicides<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s working very hard, fits in really well with our guys. The skill set is what you see from his Miami days, very accurate,\u201d Falcons coach Kevin Stefanski said Wednesday as his team worked through its second full week of organized team activities.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tagovailoa, 28, came to Atlanta for his seventh NFL season as an afterthought in the NFL free-agent market. He\u2019s playing on the veteran minimum salary after the Dolphins absorbed a dead cap hit of nearly $100 million to release him. But that one word from Stefanski makes him impossible to count out of Atlanta\u2019s starting quarterback competition: accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Only three quarterbacks (Drake Maye, Joe Burrow and Geno Smith) have a better completion rate than Tagovailoa\u2019s 68 percent since he was the fifth pick of the 2020 draft, and Stefanski already has said multiple times in his short tenure in Atlanta that accuracy is the most important trait at the position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome guys get better at it with tweaks to how they throw the ball, tweaks to their lower body, those types of things. But there is an innate ability \u2014 and all of our guys have this, all of the quarterbacks \u2014 to be able to let the ball go and (have) it go where you want it to go,\u201d Stefanski said.<\/p>\n<p>None of the Falcons\u2019 quarterbacks have displayed it as well as Tagovailoa, though. Third-year QB Michael Penix Jr. is a career 59.6 percent passer, and third-stringer Trevor Siemian is a 58.5 percent passer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been very blessed, very fortunate growing up having a father that had basically told me you\u2019ve got to throw it this way,\u201d Tagovailoa said. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t throw it this way to a certain part of the receiver, you just had to do it again and again. It\u2019s just something that I\u2019ve been blessed with through hard work and by the help of my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa was a 69 percent passer in three years at Alabama and has been above 64 percent in each of his NFL seasons. In his Pro Bowl campaign of 2023, he completed 69.3 percent of his passes for a career-high 4,624 yards, then completed 72.9 percent of his passes in a 2024 season that was limited to 11 games by a concussion and hip injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve just been impressed with everything he\u2019s doing in the meeting room, on the practice field, and being true to who he is,\u201d Stefanski said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=299\">UPDATE: Police release details on third homicide, Jacob Baker still sought for questioning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa is getting more work than Penix in practices so far, as Penix continues to rehab a 2025 knee injury that ended his season in Week 11. Penix hasn\u2019t been cleared to participate in 11-on-11 work, and there\u2019s no firm timetable for when he will be, Stefanski said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s doing outstanding, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019d be fair to put a percentage on (how healthy he is),\u201d the coach said. \u201cHe\u2019s not 100 percent, but he\u2019s exactly where he needs to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa said he was \u201cimpressed\u201d to see Penix on the field at all, only six months removed from his ACL surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can just tell that he\u2019s been here working \u2014 and working really hard \u2014 to be able to get back out there,\u201d Tagovailoa said. \u201cAnd you can see the level of respect that the guys that have been here last year have for him, both offense and defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa is trying to give Penix the benefit of his experience while also competing for his position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompetition has been around us our entire lives,\u201d he said. \u201cFor Mike, for all the other guys that are in that locker room, competition has been there. It\u2019s a competition, don\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019ve got to go out there and compete, and MP has to go out there and compete. But for me, it would just be wrong not to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa is in Atlanta on a one-year contract, but the success of his tenure won\u2019t hinge on whether he wins the starting job, he said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team winning the Super Bowl, I think that\u2019d be amazing whether I\u2019m the guy or whether I\u2019m not the guy,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that would be unbelievable in any way I can help make that happen. I\u2019m excited to be here for that.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=297\">Progress made on Volcano charter school\u2019s expansion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 1 reason Tua Tagovailoa could be the Falcons\u2019 starting QB is already on display &#8211; Sports | Hawaii Tribune-Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The No. 1 reason Tua Tagovailoa could be the Falcons\u2019 starting QB is already on display - Moving to Hawaii Guide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=303\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The No. 1 reason Tua Tagovailoa could be the Falcons\u2019 starting QB is already on display - 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