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When Tua Tagovailoa was a

young boy, his father made him do

something bizarre. He made his son

throw with his left hand.

This was strange because Ta-

govailoa does everything right-

handed. He uses that right hand to

eat, write, golf and do everything on

the planet besides shooting a bas-

ketball and throwing a football. And

Tagovailoa happens to be phenome-

nally gifted at throwing a football.

He led Alabama to a spectacular

comeback in the national champion-

ship two years ago, established him-

self as one of the game’s pre-emi-

nent young stars and will be one of

the top picks in next month’s NFL

draft.

Those teams picking atop the

draft will have to ask themselves

plenty of questions about Ta-

govailoa. They’ll have to assess his

abilities and his injury history.

They’ll contemplate trading up in

the draft to get him. And oddly

enough, they’ll have to mull the pe-

culiarity that he throws a football

with his left hand.

Over the past four years, 116

quarterbacks have thrown a pass in

the NFL, and those 116 quarterbacks

have almost nothing in common.

There are tall ones and short ones.

Some are fast and a whole lot more

are slow.

But the one and only thing they

share: they all throw footballs right-

handed.

Which is why the decision to

make Tagovailoa a lefty quarter-

back—which he says his father did

because he’s also a lefty—could be

seen as spectacularly bone-headed.

Except there’s one person who vehe-

mently disagrees with that: Tua Ta-

govailoa. “I don’t think I would be

here if I was a righty,” he said.

Why? “Well, because I only know

I’m good with my left hand.”

People have attempted to explain

this scarcity. Lefty passes might fly

slightly differently and teams could

have to alter their plays. Some think

the best lefties might just play base-

ball. Others have no idea.

Regardless of the reason, Ta-

govailoa’s entry to the NFL will end

a lefty-less drought that dates back

to Kellen Moore, and there are a few

ways to measure just how long ago

that was. He last took a snap for the

Cowboys in 2015. Enough time has

passed that he’s now entering his

second season as Dallas’s offensive

coordinator. And then there are the

116 righty, and only righty, quarter-

backs who have thrown a pass in

the four seasons since.

That number is a statistical ab-

surdity. Approximately 90% of the

world’s population is righty, and the

chances of something that is 90%

probable happening 116 times in a

row is quantifiably improbable.

There’s a .00049% chance of this

happening, which is roughly 1-

in-200,000. It’s extremely unlikely

that this run of righty quarterbacks

is due to simple randomness. Which

eral manager Kevin Colbert.

“Quite honestly,” said Thomas

Dimitroff, the Falcons general man-

ager, “I don’t know.”

Many of these executives said

they would have no hesitation tak-

ing a lefty quarterback, and DeCosta

added “someone’s going to great

quarterback” in Tagovailoa. But

there are some differences a team

may have to account for when they

take him.

The main one might be that a

team with a left-handed quarterback

would have to flip a lot of its plays

over the vertical axis to make sense

for a different-handed thrower.

Imagine a play involving Patrick Ma-

homes, Lamar Jackson or Aaron

Rodgers rolling out. There’s a good

chance they’re moving to their right

because it’s typically seen as easier

for a quarterback to throw on the

move with their momentum headed

the same direction as their throwing

arm. In one notable instance when

Mahomes found himself scrambling

toward his left, he realized the best

possible way to execute the throw

was by doing it with his left hand.

(Because this was Patrick Mahomes,

the pass was complete even with his

non-dominant hand.)

Esiason actually believes this may

be an edge. Every defense for years

now has gotten used to playing

against a quarterback who runs and

moves a certain way—until they

eventually see Tagovailoa. “I see it

as an advantage as opposed to a

disadvantage,” he says.

BYANDREWBEATON

The NFL Draft’s Lefty Unicorn

TheNFLhasgonefourseasonswithoutaleft-handedquarterback.TuaTagovailoawillchangethat.

The impact of coronavirus on the

U.S. sports world switched from

theoretical to real late Sunday when

organizers of a high-profile interna-

tional tennis tournament in Indian

Wells, Calif., said they would not

hold this year’s event because of a

declared public health emergency in

Riverside County, Calif.

The sudden cancellation of the

BNP Paribas Open, which was

scheduled to begin on Monday, was

the start of a week that could bring

severe disruptions to the sports cal-

endar as the U.S. considers more

aggressive measures to mitigate the

effects of the virus.

The NCAA men’s and women’s

basketball tournaments begin in

less than two weeks, raising an-

other question: What happens to

March Madness if the biggest

games between college basketball’s

best teams are played in empty are-

nas? We might be about to find out.

“I think a worst-case scenario is

that it’s played behind closed

doors,” said Brian Hainline, the

NCAA’s chief medical officer.

But as more American sports

leagues prepare for the possibility

of games without fans, which has

become reality across Europe and

Asia over the past month, there is

one basketball player who says that

sort of disruption would be unimag-

inable.

“Nah, it’s impossible,” said Lak-

ers star LeBron James. “If I show

up to an arena and there ain’t no

fans in there, I ain’t playing.”

The conflicting perspectives were

the latest sign of the jitters that

have swept professional sports with

an unpredictable coronavirus travel-

ing around the world, spreading

through American cities and forcing

governments to consider measures

that haven’t been implemented in a

century.

Johns Hopkins, the host of three

Division III men’s NCAA tournament

games this past weekend, banned

spectators in part because the team

that advanced to the Sweet 16 was

Yeshiva University, which had

classes canceled after a student

tested positive for the virus.

TERRANCE WILLIAMSASSOCIATED PRESS
Empty stands for a Division III game.

NFL teams will have to weigh Tua Tagovailoa’s abilities, injury history and career. They’ll also have to consider if they’re willing to draft a lefty quarterback.

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is the another way of saying there

appears to be a distinct bias against

lefty quarterbacks

“I don’t know why that is or what

the reason for that is,” said former

quarterback Boomer Esiason, an an-

alyst on CBS.

This wasn’t always the case and

Esiason is part of the proof. He be-

came an MVP even though he had

the audacity to be part of the 10% of

people in the world who are left-

handed. There were plenty of oth-

ers, too. Before Esiason there were

greats like Ken Stabler. Steve Young

was Esiason’s contemporary. Later,

Mark Brunell and Michael Vick came

along. Using scissors was difficult

for these guys. Throwing a football

was not.

“Could be because those lefties

that can throw heat are pretty cov-

eted in value in Major League Base-

ball,” said John Elway, the righty

Hall of Fame quarterback and Den-

ver Broncos’ general manager.

“I really don’t know the answer

to that,” said Ravens general man-

ager Eric DeCosta.

“Who knows?” said Steelers gen-

Over the past four years,

116 QBs have thrown a

pass in the NFL. All 116

were right-handed.

BYBENCOHEN ANDLOUISERADNOFSKY

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