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Detroit Lions can't afford to watch Tua Tagovailoa become a star somewhere else

Agent Leigh Steinberg sits down with Dave Birkett on radio row in Miami, the site for Super Bowl 54, to talk NFL draft and more. Detroit Free Press

Tua Tagovailoa could be an All-Pro for a decade and the cornerstone of a franchise.

Or an oft-injured quarterback bust who spends a few years holding a clipboard on the sideline.

It has been a while since a player with such a high ceiling also possessed such a low floor. Such is the state of Tagovailoa’s hip; the former Alabama quarterback dislocated it last November.

Before he got hurt, he was as tantalizing a prospect as there had been in years.