Tua Tagovailoa injury update: What we know

Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa suffered a hip injury during Alabama’s 38-7 win over the Mississippi State Bulldogs, and it now appears his season, and possibly his time with the Crimson Tide, is over.

According to a report from Aaron Suttles, the Alabama beat writer for The Athletic, Tagovailoa suffered a dislocated hip with a posterior wall fracture and his season is done.

Because of the injury applying to the hip, comparisons were immediately made to the hip injury that ended Bo Jackson’s career and threatened his life. While both injuries happened to the hip, Jackson’s life was threatened because of vascular necrosis — blood couldn’t get to his hip bone. We have no idea if that is the case with Tua.

Breaking News: Tua Tagovailoa is out for the season with a dislocated hip with a posterior wall fracture, a person with knowledge of the situation tells me.

— Aaron Suttles (@AaronSuttles) November 16, 2019

Hearing Tua Tagovailoa’s hip injury is serious. Hip fracture. Similar to Bo Jackson’s career-ending injury. Surgery tonight or tomorrow morning. Praying for Tua and his family. 🙏

— Jim Nagy (@JimNagy_SB) November 16, 2019

People are going to say Tua’s injury is “just like Bo Jackson’s” because it’s the easiest comp, just like every broken leg for years was “just like Joe Theismann.”

But it was vascular damage that ended Bo’s career, not the dislocated/broken hip.

— Creg Stephenson (@CregStephenson) November 16, 2019

This is a serious injury, and we all hope the best for Tagovailoa. We will update more as we find out.