JUNE 3: While speaking about Hill’s contract status with WSVN7’s Josh Moser, agent Drew Rosenhaus said he has a “fluid line of communication” with the Dolphins’ front office (video link). Justin Jefferson‘s Vikings extension has, to no surprise, moved the top of the receiver market even higher. Hill will no doubt look to take advantage of that as talks pertaining to a new deal take place.
MAY 30: The Dolphins have acted early with Jaylen Waddle, making the younger of their two 1,000-yard wide receivers the NFL’s fourth-highest-paid pass catcher. Already employing the No. 3 player on that list, the Dolphins look to have a bit of an issue on their hands.
Tyreek Hill has used the Miami portion of his career to cement his status as a surefire Hall of Famer, separating from Patrick Mahomes and thriving on his own. The historically elite speed merchant has posted back-to-back 1,700-yard seasons. While Waddle is younger, Hill has worked as the Dolphins’ clear-cut No. 1 target during his two South Florida seasons.
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The wideout market has caught up to Hill, whose $30MM-per-year deal paced the field for more than two years. Agreed to in March 2022, Hill’s four-year, $120MM Dolphins extension included a phony final year that calls for a $43.9MM base salary — one that almost definitely will not be paid. The guarantees in Hill’s current pact run out after the 2024 season. Prior to Waddle’s $28.25MM-AAV payday, A.J. Brown and Amon-Ra St. Brown passed Hill for per-year value. Other wideouts have scored better-looking contracts since Hill’s extension, even if they did not hit the $30MM-AAV number.
Prior to St. Brown and Brown’s accords, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio indicates Hill has been pursuing a new contract. Hill approached the Dolphins about a new deal following the 2023 season, and Florio adds the ninth-year veteran’s efforts increased when the Eagles handed Brown a second extension — worth a market-setting $32MM per year. Like Hill, Brown’s previous contract was signed in spring 2022 and ran through 2026. As a rule, teams steer clear of major contract adjustments with three seasons remaining. But Hill’s camp has undoubtedly pointed to his production surpassing Brown’s.
While giving the Chiefs a downfield dimension they have lacked since making the trade, Hill eclipsed 1,300 yards in a season once in six Kansas City slates. The Davante Adams extension changed Hill’s asking price in 2022, and the Chiefs shifted from Hill extension talks to a trade and have since won two more Super Bowls without a No. 1-caliber wideout. The Dolphins have seen Hill elevate Tua Tagovailoa‘s production considerably, and no wideout’s yardage comes within 400 yards of Hill’s total (3,509) over the past two years. Granted, Justin Jefferson — the NFL’s runaway yardage leader from 2021-22 — missed much of last season due to injury. Jefferson’s Vikings negotiations also figure to motivate Hill.
As Brown could factor in more prime years into negotiations with the Eagles, Jefferson is going into his age-25 season. The Minnesota-based wideout is poised to eclipse Brown’s new AAV benchmark ($32MM) by a notable margin. Having turned 30 earlier this offseason and being signed through 2026, Hill does not stand in a similarly strong negotiating position.
Already playing two seasons on a contract that included $52.5MM fully guaranteed — still the league WR standard in that category — Hill has done well on the contract front. This is Hill’s third NFL contract; he scored the second one — a three-year, $54MM pact — shortly after the NFL did not suspend him following a child-abuse scandal that had him away from the Chiefs for several weeks. This era’s premier long-range playmaker has already earned $93MM over the course of his career.
The Dolphins, who are negotiating what stands to be a franchise-record extension with Tagovailoa, have made a longer-term commitment to Waddle. The team could move money around in Hill’s contract and/or add incentives to the deal, but with its top receiver signed for three more seasons, Miami can also stand down here. Hill’s current deal gives the team flexibility beyond 2024, though he certainly does not profile as a cut candidate following this season. It will be interesting to see how he proceeds if/once Jefferson and CeeDee Lamb, and possibly Brandon Aiyuk, secure market-shifting extensions as this offseason progresses.
did tyreek not say he was gonna retire once his deal was done?
I was thinking the same
He’s the village idiot, everyone knows this.
Flat out best receiver in football imo. Deserves to be highest paid.
Woman beater, child abuser and abuser of the elderly…yeah…I dont think deserves is the right word, and highest paid is for sure not what he “deserves”
This is what happens when lesser players start making as much as the best player at that position. The best players are going to want more money to show the best player gets paid the most.
Bull. How about the player just lives up to the contract he voluntarily signed
Yeah because you’ve never asked for a raise at your job to make more money than when you initially gained employment…? Why don’t you make $7.25 your whole life and shut up and deal with it.
Asking for a raise at an hourly wage job isn’t the same as signing a contract for a period of time. This is contracted employment for a number of years. No one requires them to sign long term deals, they want the security a long term deal offers. If it can be torn up the minute someone else signs a larger deal then it’s useless to begin with.
And if they don’t perform don’t see anyone giving it back. He took the long term security contract.
Yes, it is. You are offering a service for a wage. You sign the line when employed. Exact same thing…
Two completely different things.
If someone signs a contract to replace your roof for $10,000, then your neighbor pays someone $12,000 to replace their roof, do you give your roofer another $2,000, or expect him to live up to his end of the contract?
Probably because my pension and my 401 K is worth more than you’ll make your entire life.
Which typically means you live at home with your mom.
I heard that too…
But this is a horse of a different color if he sign an extension!!!
I have Hill in 4 of my 6 Fantasy Football Teams!!!!!!!!
Everyone grab a box of popcorn, this could get dramatic with Tua also expecting a big payday. Only so much money to go around.
Tua has been concussed a few times so perhaps the Dolphins could slip a “phony” year into his contract extension without him noticing…lol.
Miami ready to implode in 3; 2; 1 ….
Who implodes first, Dolphins, Bills or Bengals?
Shades of Julio Jones getting a contract two years into his record setting deal…didn’t work out so well for the Falcons. Let him play it out and deal with it next year.
Dolphins FO had to kno hooking up Waddle w/that new contract plus cpl other wide-outs passing Tyreek n making more than him now, his ol deal was gonna be an issue. And u gota pay Tua. The money these WRs are getting in league recently is mind blowing.
Gotta be kidding me. The second we pay Waddle, Hill wants a new deal. Grier can’t catch a break.
Renegotiating because support and hush money for his victims went up.
bet the chiefs have zero regrets letting hill walk
They found an equally upstanding citizen to replace him at WR and keep the attorneys and bail bondsmen gainfully employed.
2 of them when Worthy’s true colors show (they’ve already started).
4 kids per year is expensive.
Well hope he enjoys the money he makes as he traded in 2 rings (at least) for it
These guys care way more about their salary/contracts than they do rings. He, and most others, would gladly trade two championships for the additional millions, and we likely would too.
Well, I don’t ascribe to the last sentence, but I agree with the rest. I get it, we’re not supposed to question players wanting money because that’s bad these days, but I personally will never in my life be able to figure how a million dollars is not enough for some people to live off of…let alone 30 million or more.
Their windows are only open so long in the NFL to make money, especially those who earn a 2nd contract. Personally I wouldn’t entertain a new deal with Hill. He got paid, and it was top market at the time. Too bad so sad now.
The Dolphins had to make a lot of cuts this off season to get cap compliant. Looking ahead to 2025, they are already $15.6M over the cap with 50 players under contract.
Any extensions for Hill or Tua are going to stress that figure even further as the 2025 impact for Hill is $34.2M and for Tua is $0. They can likely do enough Void year manipulation to reduce Hill’s 2025 Cap Hit, but to do these two deals is going to put them deep underwater for 2025.
Hill has to be joking. The man is overpaid as is.
At least he’s an equal opportunity miscreant. Though Hill beats both women and children, he’s prepared to slap around NFL general managers too.
And marina employees at the boat dock…
As he should since he’s better than JJ.
Great receiver, but will be 32 when his next contract starts. And at his age, that’s an eternity.
I’d either let him play it out, or play one year and see what the trade market is for him.