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The Miami Dolphins receiver is looking to reclaim the magic from 2023 and 2024.
Tyreek Hill needs a rebound.
Coming off of his worst season in Miami, the Dolphins’ wide receiver enters the 2025 campaign under the microscope as the question remains: What does Hill have left in the tank?
If you ask Hill, after undergoing offseason wrist surgery, he feels he is in a good position to bounce back.
“I feel great — in a way better spot than I was last year,” said Hill during the team’s offseason program in late May. “Zero pain, and I’m glad that me and the Dolphins took the step of actually having surgery. Because at first, I was nervous. But I’m actually glad I did it.”
His comments aside, a closer examination of Hill’s performance during the 2024 season reveals some cause for concern when considering his ability to continue impacting the game at the level he has since entering the league in 2016.
A down 2024 season for Hill coincided with an injury-riddled year for him and Miami’s starting quarterback, Tua Tagovailoa, who was lost due to a concussion sustained amid a Week 2 matchup against the Buffalo Bills. The injury cost Tagovailoa a portion of that game against the Bills, along with four additional games from Weeks 3-7. During that stretch, Hill’s production took a significant step back from what we’ve grown accustomed to seeing from one of the league’s most dynamic pass catchers and never truly recovered, even after the return of the team’s signal caller.
Throughout Tagovailoa’s four-game absence, Hill averaged just 3.5 receptions and 39 yards receiving per game, failing to find the end zone during that stretch. Upon Tagovailoa’s return, Hill’s production increased incrementally, but still nowhere near what we have come to expect. Over his final 11 games of the season, Hill recorded just two games of 100-plus yards receiving and an average of 60.4 yards per contest. He had recorded 15 games of 100-plus yards receiving combined over the previous two seasons.
Another concerning statistic stemming from Hill’s 2024 campaign was 11.8 yards per reception, his lowest mark since being traded from Kansas City to Miami. With much of the Dolphins’ focus now placed on keeping Tagovailoa upright — a tricky proposition in recent years — the short passing game the team featured last year led to a diminishing role for Hill as a deep threat, which could also downplay his overall effectiveness moving forward. Particularly considering the offensive line remains one of Miami’s significant question marks positionally entering training camp following the retirement of its best lineman, Terron Armstead.
One could argue that the early season injury sustained by Tagovailoa thwarted the momentum of the entire Dolphins’ offense. But how Hill and the Dolphins finished the year further called into question whether the 31-year-old weapon may have started to hit a wall that many wide receivers suddenly encounter after the age of 30.
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