Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has been one of the NFL’s more polarizing players since Miami drafted him fifth overall in the 2020 draft.

But following his latest 300-yard performance in the Dolphins’ 31-27 win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday, one NFL analyst believes that Tagovailoa is proving to be the franchise quarterback Miami drafted him to be, and first-year head coach Mike McDaniel is part of the reason the 24-year-old seems to be unlocking his potential.

“Tagovailoa is back, too, and not just in the he’s-adequately-managing-this kind of way, but, in a new role that we may be a little unfamiliar seeing him in: franchise quarterback,” Sports Illustrated’s Connor Orr recently wrote. “Count me among those who knew Mike McDaniel’s history as Kyle Shanahan’s secret weapon and envisioned Tagovailoa operating with suddenly heroic powers.”