After Tyreek Hill said Sunday that he was “out” of Miami following his first career non-playoff season, Dolphins general manager Chris Grier talked about a “productive” meeting with he.
The Dolphins began the day, with help, one win away from a playoff berth. By the end of his time at MetLife Stadium, Hill had basically said he wanted to play somewhere else.
Sitting next to head coach Mike McDaniel, Grier said the meeting with Hill did not include him asking for a trade.
Miami acquired Hill in a five-pick trade with the Chiefs. A similar haul would be expected to move one of the league's best wide receivers. If the Dolphins were willing to move Hill, there would certainly be suitors.
“Mike and I had conversations with Tyreek here…yesterday, productive conversations, I'll keep them between us,” Grier said Tuesday. “The only thing I would say is that in a frustrating season, he got excited in a game where we had a chance, coming back from 2-6… and we're playing Week 18 to sneak into the playoffs.”
“And I think that whole thing with him playing through his injuries is kind of a bubble to a certain extent and from our conversations, again we'll keep it private, but we had productive conversations… I would say he never asked me for a trade. . '
During a meeting with Mike McDaniel and Chris Grier, Hill apparently did not ask for a trade.
Grier, the Dolphins' general manager, said his conversation with Hill was “productive” on Tuesday.
McDaniel suggested Sunday, and doubled down on his comments, that Hill was not injured Sunday and was spared the loss to the Jets.
“Yesterday we met for, I want to say, an hour,” McDaniel said. “I think I was very direct with him, he was very honest and the terms we were discussing were excellent. “We discussed a number of things including, without hesitation, that it is not acceptable to abandon the game and that it will not be tolerated in the future.
“He accepted responsibility and I wouldn't say there was necessarily anything to fix, as much as what we needed to do to clear things up in a difficult and tumultuous situation.”
Hill's season also began controversially off the field, when Miami-Dade police dragged him from his car and handcuffed him on the way to the Dolphins' season opener against the Jaguars, about a mile away. from Hard Rock Stadium.
Although Hill scored a touchdown that day, he did not follow up his NFL MVP-caliber season in 2023 with another of similar quality.
After reworking his contract last year, Hill remains under contract for the next two seasons, with salary cap hits of $27.7 million (2025) and $51.9 million (2026), via OverTheCap.