Jeff Blake-USA TODAY Sports (Tagovailoa); Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports (Dilfer); Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports (Meyer)
Trent Dilfer wasn’t looking for the Rocky IV metaphor he made three months ago to come back into focus in quite the way that it did, but it popped back into his mind in the middle of last week, with options for his prodigy’s pro day dwindling. Parks and fields in Nashville were shut down, and Dilfer’s facility—which Tua Tagovailoa planned to use for a workout he’d been building to, really, since November—had also just been forced to close amid the COVID-19 crisis.