Reports on Friday indicated the Miami Dolphins would exercise their option on Tua Tagovailoa’s contract, tying the quarterback to the NFL team for the 2024 season for a guaranteed payday of $23.171 million.

That will be a bargain for a quarterback coming off a Super Bowl victory.

While the former Alabama All-American has yet to play in a postseason game in his three seasons with the Dolphins, the acquisition of cornerback Jalen Ramsey portends a Super Bowl season for Miami in the 2023 campaign.

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In a trade that will be processed on Wednesday when the NFL’s 2023 business year begins, the Dolphins are sending a third-round selection in the 2023 NFL Draft and tight end Hunter Long to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for Ramsey, an Associated Press All-Pro selection in the 2017, 2020 and 2021 seasons.

Ramsey will be the fourth defensive back in NFL history to be a first-team All-Pro at least three times before turning 30 years old who played for at least three teams in that time, ESPN Stats and Information reported.

The oddity about the three players who preceded Ramsey in that scenario is that each played for a Super Bowl winner in his first season with his third team.

Twenty-nine defensive backs have been first-team All-Pro choices at least three times before turning 30 years old, led by safety Jack Christiansen’s six selections for the Detroit Lions in the 1950s.

Twenty-one of those players earned that recognition while playing with one franchise. Four played for two teams, and Ramsey will make it four with three clubs.

After five seasons with the Atlanta Falcons and one with the San Francisco 49ers, three-time All-Pro cornerback Deion Sanders signed as a free agent with the Dallas Cowboys in the second week of the 1995 season and missed the first seven games recovering from knee surgery.

The Cowboys capped the 1995 season by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17 in Super Bowl XXX for their third NFL championship in four seasons. In addition to playing cornerback, Sanders caught a 47-yard pass as a wide receiver against the Steelers.

Sanders earned All-Pro selection in each of the next three seasons for the Cowboys.

After six seasons with the New York Jets and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, three-time All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis signed as a free agent with the New England Patriots in 2014.

The Patriots capped the 2014 season by defeating the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 in Super Bowl XLIX for the first of their three NFL championships over a five-season span.

Although Revis earned All-Pro recognition again for New England in 2015, the Patriots declined their $20 million option for the 2016 campaign, and he returned to the Jets.

After five seasons with the Arizona Cardinals and one with the Houston Texans, one-time All-Pro safety Tyrann Mathieu signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2019.

The Chiefs capped the 2019 season by defeating the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in Super Bowl LIV in the first of Kansas City’s three trips to the NFL championship game in a four-season span.

Mathieu earned All-Pro recognition with the Chiefs in 2019 and 2020.

Ramsey played his first three NFL seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars, who traded the cornerback to the Rams three games into his fourth campaign in 2019 for two first-round draft picks and a fourth-round selection. In Ramsey’s second full season with Los Angeles, the Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl LVI.

Can the Ramsey trade deliver the Super Bowl for the Dolphins, too?

Miami lacks a circumstance shared by the other three teams that added an all-star defensive back and won the Super Bowl.

The Dolphins’ 2022 season ended with Tagovailoa sitting out a third consecutive game with a concussion as Miami lost to the Buffalo Bills 34-31 in the first round of the AFC playoffs.

In the season before winning the Super Bowl, the 1995 Cowboys, 2014 Patriots and 2019 Chiefs had lost in a conference championship game, one win short of reaching the Super Bowl.

The four defensive backs with three All-Pro selections before turning 30 years old who played for two teams in that span included former Alabama All-American Minkah Fitzpatrick, recognized for the third time in his fifth NFL season in 2022. Fitzpatrick played his first 18 NFL games with the Dolphins before joining the Steelers in a trade.

The other two-team players are Champ Bailey, Dave Grayson and George Saimes.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.