NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 7 (UPI) — Wide receiver Tyreek Hill says he is sorry and regrets implying he wanted to be traded after the Miami Dolphins’ season finale. He now wants to remain with the team.
Hill made the comments during several appearances on radio row Friday at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in advance of the Super Bowl.
“I could have handled the situation better, instead of saying ‘I’m out,'” Hill said on the Up and Adams show. “I could have obviously handled it better. I wish I did. But in the heat of the moment, I said whatever I had to say.
“I’m taking full accountability of that.”
Does Tyreek Hill want to REMAIN with the Miami Dolphins? @cheetah: “I do. I don’t wanna go NOWHERE.” @heykayadams @MiamiDolphins | #GoFins pic.twitter.com/BeTGhHDyjQ— Up & Adams (@UpAndAdamsShow) February 7, 2025
Hill told reporters he wanted out of Miami after the New York Jets beat the Dolphins on Jan. 5 in East Rutherford, N.J. The eight-time Pro Bowl selection and five-time All-Pro agreed to a restructured contract last off-season. That pact, which covers the next two seasons, includes $106.5 million in guarantees.
Hill said Friday that he talked to his mother after he made the comments to reporters in the visiting locker room after the loss to the Jets and that she told him that his family “doesn’t handle situations like that.”
Hill went on to discuss the matter with his wife, agent, teammates and head coach Mike McDaniel. He called his meeting with McDaniel “very intense.”
Dolphins offensive tackle Terron Armstead, who serves as a captain with Hill, told TalkSport on Thursday that the wide receiver still needs to repair some relationships due to his comments.
From @PFT_Live, Tyreek Hill says he regrets his comments from Week 18. He wants to stay with the Dolphins. pic.twitter.com/v6sVR6IM9V— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) February 7, 2025
“He has some mending to do with some relationships and just getting that energy back to where it needs to be,” Armstead said. “But his desire to win, his competitiveness, his explosiveness, his confidence, his history of winning is everything that’s needed from one of your leaders.”
Hill, who totaled 1,710 yards in 2022 and a league-high 1,799 yards in 2023, registered just 959 in 2024. The Dolphins, who went 20-14 and went to the playoffs twice over Hill’s first two years with the team, were 8-9 this past season and missed the playoffs.
“I don’t want to go nowhere,” Hill said. “I love it. My family loves it. The kids absolutely love being on the beach every morning. It’s an amazing thing. We are really building something special in Miami. We made it to the playoffs the first two years. This year was hard, [but] guys continue to buy in.”
Hill, who said last month during a video game stream that the Dolphins needed to add “dogs” — better players — to their roster, also said Friday that he didn’t know what the team needed to win a Super Bowl.
But he said he is now in “a good space.”
“They are paying me to be there,” Hill told Pro Football Talk. “The Miami Dolphins have been very good to me, so why am I going to go out and say some of the things that I said?
“I fully take it back. … I’m going to come back next year, hoping to still be there, and bust my tail for the team, for the guys, for the whole city.”
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