AUGUST 5: Detailing the structure of the new deal, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talks notes Hill will receive a raise of $11.4MM over 2024 and ’25 compared to the previous arrangement. His up front compensation includes a $7MM signing bonus and guaranteed salaries and roster bonuses for the next two seasons. Hill can receive up $2.8MM in per-game roster bonuses during that span along with annual playing time and team postseason win incentives up to $500K.
2026 calls for $36MM in compensation, though none of it is locked in at signing. $11MM of that total will become guaranteed in 2026, but until then team and player will move forward with a revised short-term pact.
AUGUST 3: After a number of top wideouts earned lucrative extensions this offseason, Tyreek Hill was secured his pay day. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the Dolphins have reached an agreement with their star wide receiver on a restructured contract worth $90MM over the next three years. 
The deal includes $65MM in guaranteed money, and the restructuring will only cover the three years that were already remaining on Hill’s contract (so no new years were added). When combined with his 2023 guarantees, Hill’s $106.5MM in guaranteed money is the most by a wideout over a four-year stretch, per Schefter. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport notes that Hill also made NFL history with the “most guaranteed money added to a contract without adding new years,” and that record is likely a reflection of Hill’s unique contract situation.
The Dolphins once established Hill as the league’s highest-paid WR when they signed him to a four-year, $120MM extension. The last few years of that pact signaled that revisions were eventually coming. Hill was already attached to a significant $31MM cap hit in 2024, with that number jumping to $34MM in 2025 and an untenable $56MM in 2026. The front office also had outs in both 2025 and 2026 (via the player’s nonguaranteed $43.9MM salary), so it always seemed likely that the sides would head back to the drawing board.
Since inking his initial Miami extension, Hill has since been passed by the likes of Amon-Ra St. Brown, A.J. Brown and Justin Jefferson on the AAV list. Even Hill’s teammate, Jaylen Waddle found himself with a new deal that encroached on the numbers Hill was making. The Dolphins star won’t make any progress on St. Brown, Brown, and Jefferson with this latest deal in AAV, but he will approach Jefferson in terms of guaranteed money. Jefferson’s record-setting deal set the guaranteed money mark at $88.74MM.
It seemed strange that Hill trailed the above names in salary despite leading the league in receiving yards and touchdowns last year and only trailing Cowboys wideout CeeDee Lamb in receptions. Due to the nature of how quickly position salaries have seemed to escalate in recent years, it was no surprise to see Hill’s once record-setting deal pale in comparison to the younger generation.
The Dolphins’ new deal with Hill at least partially rights that wrong. Though Hill didn’t have any years added to his contract, Miami still has him, Waddle, and quarterback Tua Tagovailoa under contract through the 2026 season, with both Waddle and Tagovailoa having one more year than Hill. The team’s offensive corps remains intact and well-paid for the next three years, at least.
Ely Allen contributed to this post.
Well deserved
Every new WR contract is making things harder for the Cowboys with Lamb. They should have signed him a long time ago. They should probably just trade him to the Patriots (or some other team with cap space) at this point.
I agree. At this juncture, with two high high priority contracts on the horizon (higher priority, in my opinion), I would explore the value of a trade over a massive cap commitment.
For his part, I’m glad that Hill told us that it wasn’t about being the highest paid wideout. Otherwise, all of this would be very confusing for us.
So glad Mike Evans resigned with Bucs before any of these deals.
Good on Hill though he is a great great weapon.
I see a hold out coming demanding a rework.
He already signed the new contract in FA so he can’t redo and add more. They can restructure.
Godwin is in the last year and has not held out/in.
Hill got his contract reworked just as the NFL reworked the rules to eliminate the “Miami Motion”. WR on the line of scrimmage must now come to a complete stop before the snap, otherwise it’s a false start.
Just another one of Goodell’s pointless rules. Defenses can no longer play bump and run at the line of scrimmage so it’s actually irrelevant whether WRs are in motion pre snap or not.
The NFL didn’t outlaw the “Miami Motion” until the Rams and 49ers started doing it.
He’s going out to celebrate tonight, some lucky lady is going to get impregnated and hopefully no poor young lady gets beaten in the process.
Just one?
Maybe he can afford a Jimmy cap now.
You got it all wrong. He impregnates them THEN beats them.
Knocks them up and then knocks them out. He’s an equal opportunity abuser, he’s beaten women when they’re pregnant, women when they weren’t, beaten children, assaulted people unknown to him, swell fella who somehow keeps employment and huge paydays while others face lengthy suspensions for much less.
and this is why not every player needs to move the market. Lamb, Jefferson, Hill…….these three can move the market. Not St. Brown, not Brown, not Waddle, Not Moore. When those players start making more money than the top 3 at that position, this is the trickle up effect. Look at the QB situation. In a matter of a few years we went from 50 million a year QB’s to probably 60-63 million a year When Dak and Purdy cash in. Who is the biggest loser? The fans. We are the ones that are going to be paying $60-$75 for a T-Shirt or $100 for a hoodie.
There’s a salary cap.
The salary cap goes up because league revenue goes up. Tickets and merch don’t go up in price because player salaries go up.
Hoodies and t shirts? How about $150-250 for a decent jersey, which is why the vast majority of people buy cheap Chinese knockoffs for a fraction of the price.
I always wait to about this time of year to get last year’s merch on clearance because I’m not paying $100 for a hoodie or long sleeve T-shirt. The fans always lose in these situations.
dh gate and you can get any jersey your mind can imagine for $27. Even comes with a syringe of Covid.
We already pay that for a hoodie. Heck it doesn’t even need to be NFL apparel. Just as long as it’s a part of Biden’s economy then it’ll be price spiked 350%. Someone has to pay for all the illegals and it sure as heck ain’t gonna be them!
You know inflation has been a worldwide phenomenon, right?
His baby momma’s will be happy
You think they’ll get something from him?
Isn’t child support on a sliding scale? If Jeff bezos and Joe Shmoe both have children isn’t bezos’ bill gonna be higher?
The individual state that the action is filed in makes a difference, but most of them follow that pattern as a matter of practicality, whether it’s outlined specifically as such or not, as far as I know.
That’s the confusing part when you have so many women and children spread out over various jurisdictions that had different stipulations.
Gonna be a Battle Royal of those dozen women fighting over who gets what.
All of these comments & not one person mentions that it says “Tyreek Hill was secured his payday”? So does that mean he was strapped down to a stretcher or something to get it done? That sounds like some very Soviet Union style tactics to getting a contract extension! “In Soviet Russia here is your extension, we’ll let you go when you sign it!”.
The idiot will be broke in a few years. Count on it.