Alabama junior quarterback Tua Tagovailoa will be a camp counselor at the Manning Passing Academy, it was announced Wednesday. Tagovailoa will be one of 36 college quarterbacks at the annual event in Thibodeaux, La., on the campus of Nicholls State University in June.

While there are still six names to be announced, Tagovailoa is currently one of eight SEC signal callers to attend the 24th annual Manning Passing Academy, joining South Carolina’s Jake Bentley, LSU’s Joe Burrow, Ole Miss’ Matt Corral, Georgia’s Jake Fromm, Tennessee’s Jarrett Guarantano, Arkansas’ Ben Hicks and Mississippi State’s Tommy Stevens.

#Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa will be a camp counselor at the Manning Passing Academy, it was announced today. pic.twitter.com/zwO9hj54Kt — Charlie Potter (@Charlie_Potter) May 22, 2019

The Manning Passing Academy is owned and operated by the first family of football: Archie, Cooper, Peyton and Eli Manning. In addition to serving as counselors to MPA’s young campers, the college quarterbacks will receive instruction from the Mannings, and the Air-It-Out and OB Challenge events will take place the Saturday of the camp, which will be held June 27-30 this year.

Jalen Hurts, now at Oklahoma, has represented the Crimson Tide at the MPA the last two summers.

Tagovailoa put together one of the most prolific seasons for a quarterback in Alabama football history last year and etched his name all over the program’s record book. He now owns the single-season passing touchdowns record with 43 across 15 games, the record for passing yards in a season at 3,966 and his 245 completions is good for fourth in Crimson Tide history.

Tagovailoa led the country with a 199.4 passer efficiency rating and led the SEC with 48 total touchdowns, 43 of which came through the air to lead the SEC and rank second in the nation. He totaled 4,156 yards of total offense, good for second in the SEC and top-10 nationally, despite not playing a majority of the second halves of UA’s games. Through the air, he sported a 69.0 completion percentage on 245-of-355 passing and totaled 3,966 yards and 43 touchdowns with only six interceptions. He added 57 rushes and 190 yards with five scores on the ground.

At the MPA and prior to the 2019 season, this is what head coach Nick Saban said he wants to see his quarterback do differently than from a year ago, he told NFL Network after the 2019 NFL Draft.

“I think Tua played, for the first seven or eight games last year, if it’s possible to play perfectly -- take care of the ball, no interceptions, really high completion percentage, take what the defense gives -- I think he did that flawlessly in our first 7-8 games,” Saban said. “Then you start thinking about, ‘Well, I’m going to try to make some plays here, and I’m going to throw the ball down the field.’

“And I think when you get out of that and you start to be a little more outcome-oriented, worrying about the result rather than staying with the process and taking what they give you, I think you put yourself at risk to make mistakes, and I think Tua did that a little bit down the stretch. I think he learned from that, and I think we want him to be the guy that just makes the decisions that he needs to make to make good plays down in and down out and not try to force plays downfield and make big plays.”

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