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Top five or lengthy slide? Tua Tagovailoa's fate is shaping up to be the NFL draft's biggest mystery

With the first round of the NFL draft next week, the medical debate over Tua Tagovailoa’s long-term prognosis appears to be settling into a dice roll for some NFL teams. Which means the Alabama quarterback is shaping up to be arguably the biggest mystery in the draft — capable of both being selected in the top five or sliding out of the top 10 altogether.

Multiple executives in the draft market for a quarterback told Yahoo Sports the debate about Tagovailoa’s surgically repaired hip will not be fully resolved until a medical review in the summer — at the earliest.