Sources - Tua Tagovailoa to resume practicing, hopes to play Week 8 - ESPN

Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is expected to resume practicing next week, with the hopes of being able to play next Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals, sources confirmed to ESPN.

Tagovailoa remains in the concussion protocol and is subject to the NFL's return-to-play provisions, which will play a crucial step in determining whether he can return for next Sunday's game.

Despite his most recent concussion, Tagovailoa plans to attempt to return to playing football, and it no longer seems to be a question.

As scary Tagovailoa's latest injury was, with his arms falling into the fencing syndrome, it is consistent with how he has acted after each of the other concussions that he suffered.

Tagovailoa has been spotted visiting with neurologists in Pittsburgh, as he has done in the past, and doctors seemingly have not told him anything strong enough that would change his mind about wanting to continue playing the sport that has been a part of his life since his childhood.

Not only has Tagovailoa consulted with some of the same doctors he visited after previous head injuries, he also has visited with new ones, trying to gather as much information as possible in making a clear determination about his future. But as one source told ESPN earlier this month: «He's 100 percent playing.»

Tagovailoa also has insisted that he has felt fine. After suffering a concussion in the Dolphins' Week 2 Thursday night game against the Bills, he was symptom free shortly thereafter. Rather than go to a local hospital, Tagovailoa hung around the Dolphins' locker room, greeted his teammates, and demonstrated few signs that he had experienced another traumatic episode involving his brain.

The Athletic first reported Saturday that Tagovailoa