Who is the Miami Dolphins backup quarterback with Tua Tagovailoa out?

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa left the second quarter of a monumental AFC East showdown with the Buffalo Bills due to an apparent head injury. Fortunately for Miami, the Dolphins have one of the league’s top backups ready to take his place.

Teddy Bridgewater signed a one-year, $6.5 million contract to serve as Tagovailoa’s understudy back in March. The former starter for the Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos was a 2015 Pro Bowler who was forced to rebuild his career after a catastrophic knee injury cost him all of 2016 and nearly forced him into retirement.

Bridgewater was a member of our top tier of backup quarterbacks when we separated all 32 candidates into groups back in July. He’s a perfectly average passer who may not engineer many fourth quarter comebacks, but who also does enough with the offense to put his team in position to win. He’s 33-30 as a starter in his career.

He’ll likely have to hold down the fort for the rest of the Dolphins’ Week 3 tilt with the Super Bowl favorite Bills. Tagovailoa looked extremely shaken up after hitting his head on the turf in the first half of Sunday’s game.