MIAMI – Ryan Tannehill has a new team. Now the Miami Dolphins need a new quarterback.
They traded Tannehill to the Tennessee Titans on Friday in a deal that also involved draft picks. The Dolphins sent their sixth-round pick this year to the Titans for a fourth-round choice in 2020 and a seventh-round pick at next month’s draft in Nashville.
Tannehill’s sports agency wrote in a post on Twitter that as part of the trade, he signed a one-year deal with the Titans. He will replace Blaine Gabbert as the backup to Marcus Mariota. Titans general manager Jon Robinson said Friday that Gabbert will be released.
Gabbert, signed last offseason, went 2-1 as a starter with the Titans but couldn’t win the one game they needed to reach the postseason in the regular-season finale.
Tannehill turns 31 in July, and his departure from Miami had been expected. He became the starting quarterback as a rookie in 2012 and has still never taken a postseason snap.