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NFL's worst nightmare: Tua Tagovailoa slides to Patriots, rehabs and carries the torch in New England

Cheery as Tua Tagovailoa seemed in his hospital bed earlier this week -- ukulele in hand, Marvin Gaye lyrics bouncing around the room -- it must've been hard for him to see any silver lining in the season-ending hip injury he suffered last weekend. He had his team in contention for a national championship. He was in the running to be the No. 1 overall pick.

Same goes for those teams at the bottom of the standings, the ones expecting to be at the top of the draft. Hard to take a glass-half-full approach here since Tagovailoa's injury looks like one that'll prevent him from being anyone's quarterback in 2020.