Dave Hyde: How much will Dolphins take for one more year of Tyreek Hill?

Dave Hyde, South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Apr 11, 2025

Published in Football

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How much more will they take?

How much more can the Miami Dolphins take of Tyreek Hill?

However complicated the decision, however tricky the salary-cap problems, however much further his value decreased with his latest domestic incident that caused his mother-in-law to call police but resulted in no arrest — however you walk around Hill’s situation, it’s still time for the Dolphins to trade him.

For both sides by now.

For new starts all around.

What else to do? Sit him down for another talk? Throw up one of his trademark “peace” emojis on social media

Make him team captain again?

Give him another contract extension like they needlessly did last offseason?

The latest incident resulted his wife’s mother calling police, “in reference to an assault in progress,’’ the incident report read. Tyreek grabbed his wife Keeta’s computer and threw it to the floor before, “grabbing his infant daughter and walking toward the balcony of the apartment,’’ the report said.

The mother-in-law has been living there since the baby was born in November and described Hill as, “very aggressive and impulsive.” She was concerned for her daughter’s safety. Keeta Hill said a bruise on her upper chest, “probably happened without malice when he grabbed the baby from her,” the report said.

No charges were filed. The report is closed. So, everyone moves on from a place no one wants to be. No one wants to be inside the Hill’s living room. No one wants to hear about the inner workings of a marriage, how Keeta is in the process of filing for divorce or how their marriage counseling isn’t working.

You can hope Tyreek gets the anger-management help this latest incident suggests is warranted and his personal life returns to being his personal life. You can also wonder how much more the Dolphins can take of his constant issues.

The Dolphins should have traded him after a season when he was regularly late to meetings and then quit on the team in the final game. That’s not a second-guess. I wrote it then. They should have taken the first offer and run into this difficult offseason without his great talent and not-so-great behavior.

It took Hill a month to take back a public hint of a trade request. He later re-tweeted a story suggesting he’d be traded with a peace emoji in a way that wasn’t a major deal. It was just him. Now this incident with his wife where, again, no charges were filed.

What’s next? Because there’s always something next with him — a fight with a boat captain, a lawsuit from a backyard football tackle with a woman, the filing for a divorce that was mis-filed. That’s just what’s trickled into the public eye, too.

The Dolphins understood he was a handful when they traded with Kansas City for him three seasons ago. Kansas City seems to have known better. Kansas City is a championship organization with big talent and strong personalities and didn’t want to tie up big money in him.

The Dolphins got Hill because he’s a great receiver. He is, too. Even at 31 this year, he can win games, and teams put up with a lot for that. But if you believe a team’s culture matters, Hill loses you games, too.

The late meetings. The quitting on the team. The firing of receivers coach Wes Welker, for which Hill’s antics had to be a prime reason. Position coaches can’t keep players like Hill in line, though. That falls to the head coach, Mike McDaniel.

There’s a lot of overlap between Hill and Jimmy Butler this winter. The Heat moved on from Butler. The Dolphins seem to be tripling down on Hill for one more big season. It’ll be only one, too.

Trading him before June 1 would be a $28.6 salary-cap hit for the Dolphins. It would be $12.5 million after that date. But the larger number is he counts $51.8 million against the salary cap for the 2026 season. He won’t get that. The Dolphins either spread that over a few year — at 32, with constant issues, that’s not likely — or release him at that point.

All signs point to releasing him then. So, what the Dolphins decided in keeping him so far this offseason is they want one year of his play before moving on.

Maybe there’s no trade to be made, considering the involved dollars coupled with Hill’s behavior. Maybe general manager Chris Grier and McDaniel don’t want to trade him, with their fates tied to this season.

Maybe the Dolphins just see incidents like this week part of the bargain in having him.

Maybe they just throw the peace emoji, declare him a team captain and wait for the next headline.