MIAMI — Dolphins huge receiver Tyreek Hill needs to stay with the staff, he reaffirmed Wednesday, regardless of a irritating begin to the season and social media buzz a couple of 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 staff’s previous three video games. In the course of the sport, he was seen animatedly chatting with an undetermined particular person on the Dolphins’ sideline.
Hill didn’t communicate 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 staff’s apply, and mentioned he was dedicated to the Dolphins group.
“I am simply centered on proper right here and proper now. We have a phenomenal staff right here and I need to be part of it,” Hill mentioned. “We have a fantastic state of affairs right here, my household loves it, I get pleasure from it, the climate’s nice, the followers are nice. So, we have a phenomenal state of affairs right here, man … Everyone knows the NFL is a enterprise. No matter occurs, occurs.
“Shifting 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 seemed to be Hill loudly voicing his frustrations.
“I’d count on him to be visibly upset at anyone,” McDaniel mentioned. “He is a frontrunner and he needed to do the whole lot that he might to verify the consequence wasn’t that. Throughout the locker room there’s a variety of guys difficult one another, and we get a chance to see what we’re manufactured from, for certain.”
Hill and the Dolphins agreed to a restructured contract in August price $90 million over the following 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 constantly shut down any prospects of leaving Miami, courting again to final offseason, when he prompt his need to retire with the Dolphins sometime.