Poll: Should Tua Tagovailoa play in the Dolphins’ second preseason game vs. the Raiders?

Last week, coach Mike McDaniel said he would “be surprised” if Tua Tagovailoa doesn’t suit up for the Miami Dolphins at some point in this preseason.

This week might be his best shot to use him.

Traditionally, teams avoid playing starters in the final game of the preseason, so Saturday, when the Dolphins host the Las Vegas Raiders in Miami Gardens, could be the final chance for the quarterback to get some live action before kicking off the regular season next month.

On Wednesday, Tagovailoa said he’d like to play this weekend at Hard Rock Stadium.

“Man, I always want to play. I’m going to be honest,” said Tagovailoa, 24. “I wanted to play last week, too, at least a couple of snaps, but Mike decided that then wasn’t the time. Hopefully, he gives the first offense an opportunity to go out there, hopefully get some plays in, understand some situations, knowing how to manage the game and get back into the groove of things in that sense, where we have no coaches on the field, we have no one to really line us up. We just figure out things on our own when we’re out there playing.”

Whenever Tagovailoa gets into a game, it will be his first chance to operate his new coach’s offense in live action.

Rookie Skylar Thompson, currently the third-string quarterback, played the entirety of Miami’s 26-24 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

“I think it’s really good,” Tagovailoa said, “but a lot of our plays that we’ve also been running haven’t been shown out there. Those are just glimpses of the plays that we do have in our arsenal, but there are a lot of plays we didn’t get to run, as well. To me, it looked really good.”

What do you think? Should Tagovailoa get to play Saturday in the penultimate game of the preseason?