Tyreek Hill committed to Dolphins amid frustrating season

Tyreek Hill committed to Dolphins amid frustrating season

  • Marcel Louis-Jacques, ESPNOct 2, 2024, 04:35 PM ET

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      Marcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter protecting the Buffalo Payments, earlier than switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The previous Carolina Panthers beat author for the Charlotte Observer gained the APSE award for breaking information and the South Carolina Press Affiliation award for enterprise writing in 2018.

MIAMI — Dolphins broad receiver Tyreek Hill desires to stay with the crew, he reaffirmed Wednesday, regardless of a irritating begin to the season and social media buzz a few potential commerce.

Hill recorded simply 4 catches for 23 yards in Monday evening’s loss to the Tennessee Titans, giving him 87 receiving yards over the crew’s previous three video games. Throughout the sport, he was seen animatedly talking to an undetermined individual on the Dolphins’ sideline.

Hill didn’t converse after Monday’s sport, as some hypothesis bubbled concerning the viability of a commerce again to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.

He spoke at his locker Wednesday after the crew’s follow, and mentioned he was dedicated to the Dolphins group.

“I am simply targeted on proper right here and proper now. We have a lovely crew right here and I need to be part of it,” Hill mentioned. “We have an excellent scenario right here, my household loves it, I get pleasure from it, the climate’s nice, the followers are nice. So, we have a lovely scenario right here, man … Everyone knows the NFL is a enterprise. No matter occurs, occurs.

“Transferring ahead, I’d like to be right here — I really like being right here.”

On Monday evening, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel wasn’t involved by what gave the impression to be Hill loudly voicing his frustrations.

“I’d anticipate him to be visibly upset at any person,” McDaniel mentioned. “He is a pacesetter and he needed to do every thing that he may to ensure the end result wasn’t that. Throughout the locker room there’s numerous guys difficult one another, and we get a possibility to see what we’re made from, for certain.”

Hill and the Dolphins agreed to a restructured contract in August value $90 million over the subsequent three years, with $65 million of that assured. Since his arrival in Miami in 2022, Hill leads the NFL in receiving yards and has set profession highs in consecutive seasons.

The five-time All-Professional has persistently shut down any potentialities of leaving Miami, courting again to final offseason, when he urged his need to retire with the Dolphins sometime.