Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill explained that his end-of-season comments came from frustration after missing the playoffs for the first time in his nine-year NFL career.
After the Dolphins’ season-ending loss to the New York Jets in Week 18, Hill hinted at possibly leaving the team he has spent the past three seasons with. While streaming a video game, Hill addressed his viewers and explained his frustrations.
“What y’all had heard at the end of the season was frustration,” he said. “I’ve been winning my whole life, bruh. Y’all don’t understand, I bust my ass every day — I deserve to feel like that, I deserve to have some kind of opinion.
Y’all just want me to say, ‘Oh well, get ’em next year?’ Nah, f— that. We’ve got to come back, we got to put some pressure on motherf—–. Y’all got to fix this s—, come on. Add some motherf—— dogs in this b—-. I compete, I love to compete, bruh.”
After the Jets game, Hill said he would do what’s best for himself and his family, “if that’s here or wherever the case may be.”
“I’m out, bruh,” Hill said. “It was great playing here but at the end of the day, I have to do what’s best for my career.”
Dolphins general manager Chris Grier said on January 7 that while Hill did not back down from his postgame comments, he did not ask for a trade during their exit interview. Coach Mike McDaniel did not directly respond to Hill’s “emotional” comments but said they were able to clear the air after Hill removed himself from the Jets game when it was clear Miami’s season was ending.
“We met for, I want to say an hour,” McDaniel said. “I think I was very direct with him, he was very honest, and it was great terms that we were discussing. Discussed multiple things, including — without wavering — that it’s not acceptable to leave the game and it won’t be tolerated in the future.
He embraced accountability, and I wouldn’t say there was anything necessarily to fix as much as we had to clear the air in a rough and tumultuous situation.”
Hill’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, told “The Pat McAfee Show” on January 9 that he believed Hill was committed to the Dolphins, though he hadn’t yet spoken to Hill about the matter.
Drew Rosenhaus talks about Tyreek Hill
“What you see with Tyreek, it’s very genuine. He wants to win — it’s not good enough for him not to make the playoffs,” Rosenhaus said. “I think at the end of the day, he’s committed to this Dolphins football team,” he said. “I believe Tyreek is a great asset to the Dolphins and I think he’s the last guy people should be worried about in this organization. They have many more worries — Tyreek Hill’s not one of them.”
After leading the league in receiving yards with 3,509 in his first two seasons with the Dolphins, Hill’s production dropped in 2024. He finished with 959 receiving yards and six touchdowns on 81 catches. His average of 56.4 receiving yards per game was his lowest since his rookie season in 2016.
However, Hill told ESPN’s Lisa Salters in November that an MRI showed a torn ligament in one of his wrists, which worsened during an incident with Miami-Dade Police officers outside Hard Rock Stadium before the team’s season opener in September.
Rosenhaus said Hill broke his wrist during joint practice, and doctors recommended season-ending surgery, but Hill declined. Hill confirmed to local reporters in November that surgery was “brought up,” and he would be in a good space to decide on surgery in the offseason.
Hill has two years left on the extension he signed with the Dolphins in 2022. He agreed to a restructured contract this past offseason that raised the guaranteed money in his contract to $106.5 million — the most fully guaranteed money ever given to a wide receiver in NFL history.
