Lefty QB Tagovailoa a rarity in NFL. MORE:
When Tua Tagovailoa signed his rookie contract with the Miami Dolphins, the left-handed quarterback from Alabama didn’t have to worry about smudging his signature.Yes, the NFL’s latest lefty QB is a natural right-hander, one whose father, Galu, turned him into a southpaw in his youth.
That makes Tagovailoa an oddity in the NFL, where a left-hander hasn’t started at quarterback since 2015, when Dallas’Since then, 116 quarterbacks have thrown a pass in the NFL, and all of them were right-handed.Dez BryantFewer than three dozen southpaws have played quarterback in the NFL’s 100-year history, something that irks Steve Young, the most decorated left-handed QB and the first to reach the Hall of Fame, 11 years before Ken Stabler’s posthumous induction in 2016.
Added 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan: “A good thrower is a good thrower. I would say it’s probably a coincidence, probably less pool to choose from.”“I don’t follow all college teams, but I never see a lefty quarterback,” Young said. “So, the NFL might say, ‘Hey don’t look at me. There’s no lefties coming out of college.’ Then, the colleges say, ‘Look, there’s no lefties coming out of high school.’”“I really don’t know the answer,” shrugged Ravens GM Eric DeCosta.
“If I could be a left-handed pitcher and throw in the 90s and play major league baseball, that’s a pretty good gig,” Jaguars coach Doug Marrone said. “I don’t have anyone 300 pounds running at me trying to take me down.”“I could never have been a major league pitcher, I couldn’t have even been a college pitcher. But I could play quarterback,” Young said. “A small percentage of quarterbacks can pitch in the major leagues. Or even pitch in college.
Being such a scarcity, lefty QBs actually have an advantage because opponents aren’t accustomed to facing offences that have had to flip the playbook on its vertical axis, Young suggested.
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