Tag: Tyreek Hill

Tyreek Hill says he’s ‘always’ second-guessing decision to leave Chiefs

Tyreek Hill says he can’t help but wonder if he made the right decision to push for the trade that sent him to Miami.

In the nearly three years since Tyreek Hill was traded from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Miami Dolphins during the 2022 offseason, his former team has won two Super Bowls and has a chance to make it three straight on Sunday.

Hill, 30, achieved personal success upon arriving in Miami, becoming the first player in NFL history to record 1,700 receiving yards in back-to-back seasons. But the Dolphins’ lack of postseason success has boiled over into frustration and drama.

After Miami finished the 2024 season with an 8-9 record and Hill missed the Pro Bowl for the first time in his career, the receiver couldn’t help but admit earlier this week that he’s wondered what things would be like if he never left Kansas City.

“You always have thoughts like that,” Hill said Friday on PFT Live. “I mean, I’m human. So at the end of the day, you’re always thinking in the back of your head like, man, did I make the right decision? But at the same time, though, the way I was raised, I’m always thinking what God has planned for me in the future. And I’m blessed with what I got. I’m blessed with the situation God has put me in.”

While Hill said that he’ll always support his former Chiefs teammates, including on Sunday when they face the Philadelphia Eagles, he also says it’s not easy to watch the team have so much success without him.

“I come to the Super Bowl every year man and it’s tough,” Hill said. “I’m still going for the Chiefs. It’s tough for me to just go to the game and just be in this environment and not be playing in it. At the same time, I got to be mindful of the future I’m trying to build. I got to be mindful of just everything that I want to be a part of whenever I’m not playing football.

“So it sucks not playing. You know how it is as a competitor. So yeah, it’s a whole lot of things that goes through your mind on these weekends.”

Hill’s exit from the Chiefs wasn’t entirely voluntary. Amid frustrations about his contract, Hill and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, played hardball in negotiations with Kansas City that eventually led to the receiver being dealt to Miami.

The receiver got the big money contract he wanted from the Dolphins, and the Chiefs got the draft capital and cap space they needed to put together a roster that may become the NFL’s first ever three-peat champion.

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Tyreek Hill says he regrets ‘I’m out’ comments: ‘I fully take them back’

Tyreek Hill did damage control on Radio Row on Friday, a month after he talked about leaving the Dolphins.

Tyreek Hill made his way through Super LIX’s Radio Row on Friday and did his best to undo some of the discord he sowed with the Miami Dolphins in January.

About a month after the eight-time Pro Bowl wide receiver told reporters “I’m out” and that he’s “opening the door” to leave Miami, Hill did multiple interviews and took it all back.

“I’m taking full accountability for what I said,” Hill said on PFT Live. I don’t deserve to say anything like that. Miami Dolphins … they’re paying me to play there, they’ve been very good to me. So why am I going to go out and say the things I said? I fully take them back. I’m going to take full accountability and come back next year — hoping to still be there — and bust my tail for the team, for the guys, for the fans, for the whole city. I want to stay with the Dolphins.”

He reiterated that point in an interview with Kay Adams of FanDuel’s Up and Adams Show.

“I don’t want to go nowhere,” Hill told Adams. “I love it, my family loves it, kids absolutely love being on the beach every morning. It’s an amazing thing. We are building something really special in Miami. We made it to the playoffs the first two years. Obviously, this year was hard. But if guys continue to buy in to what Coach [Mike McDaniel] is building, and the culture that he’s trying to build, it’s going to be a beautiful thing.”

On Thursday, Dolphins offensive tackle Terron Armstead said in an interview that Hill has “mending to do” to earn back the trust and confidence of his teammates.

In his interview with Adams, Hill said he plans to do so by “going to practice every day, busting my tail, showing up to meetings on time” and “doing things the right way.” But he singled out quarterback Tua Tagovailoa for an apology.

“Tua, he’s my guy, always will be my guy, no matter what,” Hill told Adams. “He understands my frustration. We all want to win. Tua, he’s another competitor. He’s a hell of a competitor, a lot of people don’t know that. I’m looking forward to just us continuing to build our relationship and even more. This is my public apology to you, Tua. I love you, bro.”

In a January press conference, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel told reporters that he expressed to Hill in a meeting that “it’s not acceptable to leave a game and won’t be tolerated in the future.”

Hill is due to count $27.7 million against Miami’s salary cap in 2025, but that number would climb to $56 million if he’s released or $28.3 million if he’s traded before the beginning of June. A trade after the start of June would drop the dead money hit to $12.7 million.

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Terron Armstead says Tyreek Hill has ‘mending to do’ with teammates

Tyreek Hill has work to do to earn his teammates’ trust and confidence, says Dolphins tackle Terron Armstead.

Tyreek Hill has some work to do if he’s going to earn back his Miami Dolphins teammates’ trust and confidence, according to veteran offensive lineman Terron Armstead.

“He really wants to win, so when he doesn’t, it bothers him to the depths of his core,” Armstead said of Hill in an interview with talkSPORT. “I know the words that he said after our last game. I can’t excuse him for it, ’cause as a captain and as a leader, you can’t do it. So he has some mending to do with some relationships.

“I talked to him immediately after and he was regretful. He knew ‘I can’t go there, I can’t do that.’ As we rode together going to the plane, he was immediately aware — especially in today’s age, once you say anything or put out a tweet, it’s all over the world now.”

If Hill was regretful for saying he was ready to leave Miami, he didn’t act like it on social media. The receiver temporarily changed his profile picture on X to an image with his head superimposed on the body of Antonio Brown, who infamously quit on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the middle of a game in 2022.

A couple weeks after the Dolphins season ended, Hill said on a Twitch stream, “I deserve to feel like that.”

What Armstead also didn’t mention in his interview is that Hill appeared to quit on his squad in the third quarter of the Dolphins’ Week 18 finale.

Earlier this week, Raheem Mostert shrugged off the situation. In an interview, the Dolphins running back said Hill “was just fed up at that moment” and other players felt the same way but “didn’t have the courage to say it like he did.”

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Raheem Mostert defends Tyreek Hill’s comments: ‘He was just fed up’

Raheem Mostert says Tyreek Hill said things after a Week 18 loss that other Dolphins players “didn’t have the courage to say.”

Miami Dolphins running back Raheem Mostert has no qualms with the comments Tyreek Hill made after the team’s Week 18 loss. While the star wide receiver told reporters he was “opening the door” to leave Miami, Mostert says it’s nothing he’s too concerned about.

“I didn’t take it personal because I know the type of competitor that he is,” Mostert said Wednesday in an interview on Sirius XM Radio. “I do, however, feel like you shouldn’t ever quit on a team. That’s just because we’re all bleeding out there. But when you’re a competitor and you’re just so fed up with how the year has gone for yourself and gone for the team and gone for the organization, at some point, you do have that breaking point.

“I’m not faulting him for his actions or anything like that. He does have a right to feel that way. He does have a right to feel discouraged about how the season went, about how he played. … He just wants to win in Miami. He was just fed up at that moment, just like everybody else was — they just didn’t have the courage to say it like he did.”

Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel and general manager Chris Grier told reporters that they met with Hill and emphasized that quitting on the team “won’t be tolerated in the future.” They also said the receiver “embraced accountability” for his actions. Hill’s agent said that his client is “committed to the Dolphins.”

But Hill defended his comments in a Twitch stream, telling his viewers, “I deserve to feel like that” after the Dolphins’ 8-9 finish in 2024.

It wouldn’t be a surprise if Mostert has already played his last game in Miami. The veteran running back will turn 33 in April and the team can save just under $3 million by cutting him this offseason.

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Olympic gold medalist trolls Tyreek Hill after a race

“Tyreek could never”

Tyreek Hill took some shots at Noah Lyles Jr. last year, but the beef was pretty one-sided. But the Olympic gold medalist did some trolling of his own over the weekend.

On Sunday, Lyles won the 60-meter final at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston and celebrated his victory by holding up a sign that read: “Tyreek Could Never.”

Unsurprisingly, Hill wasted no time responding to the shot:

Last year, Hill accused Lyles of faking a COVID diagnosis after the track star finished third in the 200-meter final at the 2024 Summer Olympics. The Miami Dolphins receiver also said he would beat Lyles in a race.

While the two have toyed with the idea of actually testing their speed head-to-head, nothing close to a real race has come together. Perhaps Lyles taking a shot at Hill could get the ball rolling.

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De’Von Achane disagrees with Tyreek Hill: ‘We got dawgs’

De’Von Achane doesn’t think the Dolphins need to “add some dawgs.” He says the team just needs to get on the same page.

Tyreek Hill says that the Miami Dolphins need to “add some dawgs” to the roster after an 8-9 finish last season. Running back De’Von Achane has a different take, though.

“We got dawgs,” Achane told Kay Adams on Friday in an appearance on FanDuel’s Up and Adams. “We just need more people to bring it out. I wouldn’t say we need more, as in like got to get other people.

“We know what we’re capable of. If we’re all on [the same page], I feel like we’re a hard team to beat.”

Achane, 23, was the Dolphins’ most consistent playmaker on offense, finishing the 2024 season with 1,499 yards from scrimmage and 12 total touchdowns.

While he told Adams that he felt he “left some big runs on the table” in 2024, it was the Dolphins running out of time to climb back into the playoff mix that he described as frustrating.

“We knew as a team that we dug ourselves in this hole,” Achane said. “It sucks that the season ended when we start getting it together. It’d helped if we figured it out earlier.”

The Dolphins were 2-6 through the first nine weeks of the season before winning six of their last nine. While Miami was still alive in the postseason race heading into Week 18, the Denver Broncos secured the last spot in the playoffs and the Dolphins lost their season finale against the New York Jets.

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ESPN panel rips Tyreek Hill for ‘frustrated’ comments: ‘You made it about you’

ESPN’s Shannon Sharpe and Ryan Clark laid into Tyreek Hill for quitting on his team.

Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill defended his end-of-season comments, telling Twitch viewers that he “deserves” to feel frustrated after an 8-9 season. The panel ESPN’s First Take doesn’t want to hear it, though.

In a segment on Monday morning, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, Ryan Clark, Dan Orlovsky, and Shannon Sharpe tore into the eight-time Pro Bowl receiver for his comments.

While Smith centered much of his criticism around the actions that led Hill to get traded from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Dolphins, Sharpe and Clark took issue with Hill’s decision to pull himself out of action in the second half of Miami’s Week 18 loss to the New York Jets.

“I don’t want to hear nothing Tyreek Hill got to say,” Sharpe said. “Tyreek Hill quit on his team in the fourth quarter. I don’t want to hear nothing about frustration. I don’t want to hear nothing about no dogs. Because you weren’t a dog in the fourth quarter. Jaylen Waddle asked you ‘Reek, you done?’ You quit! Was that about your family? Was that about being a dog?

“I don’t want to hear a damn thing Tyreek Hill is saying, because Tyreek Hill quit on his team no different than what [De’Vondre] Campbell did to the San Francisco 49ers. … Everybody that’s played this game has been frustrated. Tom Brady, the greatest player to play this game, he’s been frustrated. But he didn’t quit. You quit! Simple as that. … It disqualifies everything you said after that.”

“Tyreek Hill is no different than a million other dudes that did exactly what we were blessed to do,” Clark later added. “The difference is — when we were 7-8 or when we were 8-8 or we were getting blown out — I said to myself I’m going to dig my heels in, I’m going to run downhill, and I’m going to hit everybody in the facemask until the clock strikes zero, because that’s what I can control.

“What Tyreek could’ve controlled, no matter if [Tyler] Huntley was at quarterback or Tua Tagovailoa at quarterback, was to run his route as hard as he possibly could, was to block as he possibly could. He can’t do none of that from the sideline.”

“Bro, I don’t want to hear nothing, because you made it about you,” Sharpe later said. “Keep the focus on you. Talk about you not taking your butt back in that game.”

In a season-wrap press conference, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel told reporters that he met with Hill and expressed “that it’s not acceptable to leave a game and won’t be tolerated in the future.”

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Tyreek Hill on ‘I’m out’ comments: ‘I deserve to feel like that’

Tyreek Hill says he deserves to feel frustrated after the Dolphins’ 8-9 season and had to “put pressure” on the team.

Tyreek Hill isn’t feeling contrite a few weeks removed from his eyebrow-raising comments after the Miami Dolphins’ loss in Week 18. The eight-time Pro Bowler actually feels he was pretty justified in telling reporters he was “opening the door” to leave the team following its 8-9 finish.

“What y’all heard at the end of the season is frustration, bruh,” Hill said on a recent Twitch stream. “I’ve been winning my whole life. Y’all don’t understand, I bust my ass every day. So I deserve to feel like that. I deserve to have some sort of opinion. Y’all just want me to say ‘Oh well, get ’em next year.’ Nah, [expletive] that.”

Hill said that he had to “put pressure” on the Dolphins to fix things and the team needs to add some dogs.

In the time since his postgame comments, the situation has been smoothed over. Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel told reporters that he was able “to clear the air” with Hill, who “embraced accountability” in their meeting. According to Hill’s agent Drew Rosenhaus, the receiver is “committed to this Dolphins football team.”

But it remains to be seen if Miami is willing to live with Hill’s decision to quit on the Dolphins in the regular season finale. A trade isn’t out of the question, and one NFL executive even thinks the Dolphins would be willing to send Hill to a division rival to be done with the drama.

Hill, who turns 31 in March, finished the 2024 season with 81 receptions for 959 yards and six touchdowns. It was his first season below 1,000 yards since 2019 when he missed four games due to a shoulder injury.

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NFL exec predicts Dolphins trade Tyreek Hill to AFC East rival

Would the Dolphins really consider sending Tyreek Hill to a rival? At least one NFL exec thinks so.

A Miami Dolphins divorce with Tyreek Hill could be coming this offseason after the receiver quit on the team in Week 18 and told reporters that he was “opening the door” to leave Miami. But would the Dolphins really consider trading Hill to a divisional rival?

According to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, at least one NFL executive thinks a deal that sends Hill to the New England Patriots make sense. Via Fowler:

“The Patriots are desperate. They need a guy, that alpha that can be friendly for Drake Maye,” a veteran NFC personnel man said. “And there’s a higher chance of the draft picks [Miami would receive in a trade] being higher than with a contender.”

While intradivisional trades are often thought of as a no-no, Dolphins general manager Chris Grier hasn’t shied away from the idea. Three years ago, Miami traded wide receiver DeVante Parker to the Patriots. Two years before that, the Dolphins dealt running back Kalen Ballage to the New York Jets (although that deal fell through due to a failed physical).

The Dolphins probably don’t want to face Hill twice in a season, but ultimately, it’s the Buffalo Bills that are reigning over the AFC East. The Patriots have finished with four wins in each of the last two seasons.

Dealing Hill will leave the team with a large of dead money counting against their salary cap. But given the team’s discipline issues, a trade may make sense — even if it keeps the eight-time Pro Bowler in the AFC East.

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Ex-Dolphins LB says Tyreek Hill needs a coach that doesn’t ‘coddle’

Does Tyreek Hill need to play for a coach who keeps a tighter leash?

It’s possible Tyreek Hill has worn out his welcome in South Beach.

After three seasons with the Miami Dolphins, it wouldn’t be a surprise if the 30-year-old is on the trading block after quitting on his squad in Week 18. But former Dolphins linebacker Rob Ninkovich thinks head coach Mike McDaniel is part of the problem.

In an interview with Betway, Ninkovich — who is best remembered for his eight years with the New England Patriots — said that Hill would be better off playing for a coach who keeps a tighter leash on his players.

“I think Tyreek Hill .. might be a guy that needs a head coach like [Patriots head coach] Mike Vrabel,” Ninkovich said. “Somebody that’s going to stay on top of him, that’s going to say, ‘I don’t care what you’ve done in the past, you’re going to go out and perform, and you’re going to be on time, and we’re not going to coddle you.’

“I think down in Miami, maybe there was some of that coddling where he wasn’t on time. I think if you’re going to trade for Tyreek Hill, you have to make sure you have a coach that can stay on top of him and make sure that he’s doing all the right things.”

After an 8-9 finish to the 2024 season, McDaniel told reporters that discipline was an issue for the Dolphins and fining players “didn’t move the needle.” While he didn’t name names, tardiness to team meetings was reportedly a prevailing issue.

Ninkovich, 40, spent two seasons with the Dolphins early in his career before eventually blossoming under the strict leadership of the Patriots’ Bill Belichick.

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