How did Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa get the news that Alabama coach Nick Saban had retired?

In the same way many people no doubt did: Thumbing though the feed on his phone. It caused Tagovailoa to let out a shriek in the NFL team’s quarterbacks room on Wednesday.

“It doesn’t even feel real,” Tagovailoa told his backups.

The moment was captured by NFL Films for the next episode of “Hard Knocks: In Season with the Miami Dolphins,” which will premiere at 8 p.m. CST Tuesday on MAX.

Tagovailoa played three seasons under Saban at Alabama.

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As a freshman, Tagovailoa rallied the Crimson Tide from a 13-0 halftime deficit to a 26-23 overtime victory against Georgia in the CFP championship team for the 2017 season, with his 41-yard touchdown pass to DeVonta Smith to win the game becoming one of the Crimson Tide’s iconic football moments.

In 2018, Tagovailoa won the SEC Offensive Player of the Year Award, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Player of the Year Award, finished second in the Heisman Trophy balloting and earned consensus All-American recognition. Alabama won the SEC Championship Game before suffering its only loss of the season to Clemson 44-16 in the CFP national-championship game.

Tagovailoa’s Alabama career ended when he sustained a dislocated hip and posterior wall fracture during a 38-7 victory over Mississippi State on Nov. 16, 2019.

The fifth player picked in the 2020 NFL Draft, Tagovailoa will make his first postseason appearance at 7 p.m. CST Saturday, when the Dolphins take on the Kansas City Chiefs.

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