In the nearly three years since Tyreek Hill was traded from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Miami Dolphins during the 2022 offseason, his former team has won two Super Bowls and has a chance to make it three straight on Sunday.
Hill, 30, achieved personal success upon arriving in Miami, becoming the first player in NFL history to record 1,700 receiving yards in back-to-back seasons. But the Dolphins’ lack of postseason success has boiled over into frustration and drama.
After Miami finished the 2024 season with an 8-9 record and Hill missed the Pro Bowl for the first time in his career, the receiver couldn’t help but admit earlier this week that he’s wondered what things would be like if he never left Kansas City.
“You always have thoughts like that,” Hill said Friday on PFT Live. “I mean, I’m human. So at the end of the day, you’re always thinking in the back of your head like, man, did I make the right decision? But at the same time, though, the way I was raised, I’m always thinking what God has planned for me in the future. And I’m blessed with what I got. I’m blessed with the situation God has put me in.”
While Hill said that he’ll always support his former Chiefs teammates, including on Sunday when they face the Philadelphia Eagles, he also says it’s not easy to watch the team have so much success without him.
“I come to the Super Bowl every year man and it’s tough,” Hill said. “I’m still going for the Chiefs. It’s tough for me to just go to the game and just be in this environment and not be playing in it. At the same time, I got to be mindful of the future I’m trying to build. I got to be mindful of just everything that I want to be a part of whenever I’m not playing football.
“So it sucks not playing. You know how it is as a competitor. So yeah, it’s a whole lot of things that goes through your mind on these weekends.”
Hill’s exit from the Chiefs wasn’t entirely voluntary. Amid frustrations about his contract, Hill and his agent, Drew Rosenhaus, played hardball in negotiations with Kansas City that eventually led to the receiver being dealt to Miami.
The receiver got the big money contract he wanted from the Dolphins, and the Chiefs got the draft capital and cap space they needed to put together a roster that may become the NFL’s first ever three-peat champion.