Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is on pace to have his lowest-output season, statistically speaking, since his 2019 season with the Chiefs where he missed four weeks due to injury. And although the Dolphins are currently enjoying a two-game-win streak and sit at just a shade under .500, with a record of 4-6 on the season, it’s the disparagement from a certain subset of NFL fans — fantasy football fans and sports betters in particular — that have Tyreek more pressed than anything else in 2024.
“A lot of people have stake in the game that I grew up loving so much and turning into betting and turning it into fantasy numbers and stuff like that,” Hill explained to reporters on Thursday. “It’s like I can’t even enjoy a day out with my wife and my kids. Somebody is always walking up to me and is like, ‘I drafted you No. 1 and you’re having the worst fantasy season of your career.’ And it’s like, ‘Bro, I do not literally care.’ I’m with my family.”
So far in the 2024 NFL season, Hill has 44 receptions for 523 yards and 3 TDs, putting him on pace to log less than 1,000 receiving yards since the aforementioned injury season in 2019 — only the third time he’d garner less than 1,000 receiving yards in his nine-year-career (the other being his 2016 rookie season with the Chiefs).
Though the lack of flashy receiving numbers hasn’t all been Hill’s fault — star Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa missed four weeks of play in 2024 after suffering a concussion against the Buffalo Bills in Week 2 — the 30-year-old Hill, who has a 40-yard-dash time of 4.29 seconds and was selected on average in the Top 3 of most NFL Fantasy Drafts — reiterated that his offensive output and by proxy, fantasy stats, aren’t the only things that the Dolphins rely on him for and aren’t his primary focuses — whether fantasy football fans like it or not.
“The only thing I care about is the Miami Dolphins winning games and me and [Jaylen Waddle], we obviously understand that,” Hill said. “If that means we’ve got to block a thousand times to get teams out of Cover 2 or Cover 4 or whatever the case may be, we’ll do that. We’ll come down and crack some safeties or pin some [defensive] ends, whatever we’ve got to do.”
Hill and the Miami Dolphins (4-6 record) take on the New England Patriots (3-8) at home at Hard Rock Stadium this Sunday at 1:00PM EST.
What do you think of the fact that Tyreek Hill is fed up with fantasy football fans and sports betters? Should fans know their boundaries and not bother him with fantasy football stats or betting lines in public while he’s out to eat with his family? Let us know in the comments.
