30 NFL records that could be broken this season

13. Tua Tagovailoa, Most 4th quarter comebacks in a season

The Miami Dolphins are the most intriguing team in the NFL. They could fall apart under the immense pressure with a quarterback that has a laundry list of injury issues, most frightening of which is his concussion history. However, they could legit be Super Bowl contenders if everything falls right into place. It seems like the Dolphins are going to be a mix of both, and it will lead to a record that was just broken last season.

The Minnesota Vikings were that strange contending team that didn’t feel like they were in the upper echelon, but their record said different. They just kept coming back in games and winning. In fact, Kirk Cousins tied Matthew Stafford’s 2016 record with eight fourth-quarter comebacks. That is incredibly impressive because his team had to not only win those games where he made a comeback, but they had to be within striking distance in the fourth quarter but still losing. It’s a hard equation to solve, but Cousins did it last season.

However, despite the love Cousins seems to be getting from the Netflix show “Quarterback,” we still don’t want Cousins to own this record. A player like Joe Burrow or Josh Allen will be ahead in too many fourth quarters to break this record. Tua Tagovailoa seems like the perfect candidate to break it.

If everything goes right, the Dolphins could easily win 12 or 13 games this season. They could do so with more than half coming with a fourth-quarter comeback. Say what you will about Tagovailoa in the pros; he showed he had nerves of steel in college playing for Alabama. He also has six game-winning drives in his NFL career. He did it twice last September. Once he did it against the Ravens in Baltimore when he found Jaylen Waddle open for a score with 14 seconds left. Tagovailoa has the right tools to break a record like this. He just has to stay healthy.