Despite talk as last season came to an end that Tyreek Hill was unhappy in Miami, Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel says Hill has done everything asked of him and more in the offseason. McDaniel said at the Dolphins’ Organized Team Activities that Hill timed his wrist surgery so that he’d be ready to return when the Dolphins need him, and that Hill is doing everything he can during voluntary practices now, even though his wrist isn’t fully healed. “Tyreek’s done a great job of being proactive with when he got the surgery done and making sure he is able to do as much as he can with the team, which has very much included his daily participation in how he attacks all of our strength program,” McDaniel said. McDaniel said Hill is running routes in practice but that the Dolphins are holding off on having him catch passes until there are no concerns about his wrist or his ability to fully use his hand. “Then he’ll start catching the ball,” McDaniel said. “But he’s been participating above and beyond. Whatever he can do, he has been doing.” For much of his career, Hill has been among the NFL’s best wide receivers, and a year ago his fellow players voted him the single best player in the NFL in a poll conducted for NFL Media. But his injury-plagued 2024 season was a disappointment. McDaniel knows nothing is more important to his team in 2025 than getting Hill back on track.
Unfortunately, when they redid his original Dolphins contract to give him free money, it made it almost impossible to do that, and made it far more expensive even now. Originally, a trade early this offseason would have been completely viable. Now, even next year due to how the contract is set up, a post June 1 move saves the team only 3m more than trading him in March, so who knows what will happen. You would certainly hope he's not on the roster with a 52m cap number in 2026, but I feel that an extension would be an even worse choice than that.
In terms of the most important things for Miami in 2025, I wouldn’t put “getting Hill back on track” in the top 3. Getting the OL on track (admittedly for the first time in decades), patching together a functional secondary, and keeping Tua healthy are more important, imo.
Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill has been making steady progress in his recovery from wrist surgery, according to head coach Mike McDaniel. Reporters at Tuesday’s minicamp practice noticed Hill catching passes for what was believed to be the first time during the offseason program. “He’s trying to get me to go against the process and shortchange when he’s supposed to catch footballs, but we’re being very diligent,” McDaniel said in his Wednesday press conference, via transcript from the team. “He’s pitching to do more and more, which is good. He’s been active in the offseason program, all while not catching footballs. “So yes, it was early in the process and he’s toeing the line in a healthy, good way of pushing that timetable of return sooner and sooner.” Though Hill was dealing with the injury for much of last season, he still started all 17 games for Miami. He finished with 81 catches for 959 yards with six touchdowns. His yards per game was just 56.4, down from a career-high 112.4 in 2023.
