{"id":236403,"date":"2025-10-24T01:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236403\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:29:09","slug":"dolphins-tyreek-hill-undecided-on-retirement-after-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236403\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins&#8217; Tyreek Hill undecided on retirement after injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-dolphins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> star receiver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3116406\/tyreek-hill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyreek Hill<\/a> hasn&#8217;t yet decided if he&#8217;s done playing football after suffering a season-ending knee injury against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/nyj\/new-york-jets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Jets<\/a> on Sept 29.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on the podcast of Terron Armstead, Hill&#8217;s former Dolphins teammate, Hill said he&#8217;ll make up his mind about his career at some point. For now, his focus is on recovering from surgery he had a couple of weeks ago to repair significant damage to his left knee, including a torn anterior cruciate ligament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, I feel like that decision is based upon how I feel and where my mindset is at the moment,&#8221; Hill said on the podcast, which was released Thursday evening. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy with the career that I&#8217;ve had. I love playing football. I love it, but it takes a lot. It takes a lot on you mentally, it takes a lot on you physically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m at the point now where I need to have a conversation with mom, family, everybody. Wherever my mind is at the time, the decision will be made, but I know right now, I haven&#8217;t had time to live in the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46438904\/dolphins-wr-tyreek-hill-not-need-multiple-surgeries\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1553236_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46685308\/dolphins-place-te-darren-waller-ir-pectoral-injury\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1556109_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Hill was hurt when he made a catch and got tackled near the Jets&#8217; sideline in the third quarter of Miami&#8217;s Week 4 win. He was running toward the sideline and planted his left foot, and his knee twisted as he was getting pulled down.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins placed him on season-ending injured reserve on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I got tackled, I immediately tried to get up &#8230; I&#8217;d seen that my leg was crooked,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;I immediately started laughing because I&#8217;ve been able to play this game for 10 years, really my entire life, and I&#8217;ve been blessed with great talents and great gifts. The amount of support I get from my family, it&#8217;s amazing. So I really wasn&#8217;t even thinking about the injury. I was thinking about the great times I&#8217;ve had playing this game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hill, 31, has played 10 NFL seasons. He posted consecutive 1,700-yard receiving campaigns in his first two years with Miami, including a league-leading 1,799 yards in 2023. The five-time All-Pro entered this season aiming to regain that elite form after a relatively down year in 2024, when he recorded 81 catches for 959 yards &#8211; his lowest totals in both categories since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Hill&#8217;s decorated career &#8211; which includes a Super Bowl title with Kansas City in 2020 &#8211; will continue remains uncertain. His contract with the Dolphins runs through next season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to be in this moment with my family,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to make any rash decisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hill expressed confidence in the Dolphins&#8217; ability to turn things around after falling to 1-6 with last Sunday&#8217;s loss at Cleveland. He also defended quarterback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4241479\/tua-tagovailoa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tua Tagovailoa<\/a>, who is coming off consecutive three-interception games and recently called out teammates for being late to player-led meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know how it is when you&#8217;re 1-5. Everybody&#8217;s got something to say,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s apparently on the hot seat. It&#8217;s a tough situation. When we were winning, things were good. People could say whatever, and it would just go out the window. I&#8217;m going to support Tua regardless of what he&#8217;s got going on because that&#8217;s my brother. I kind of can feel what he&#8217;s saying. That should show people that he wants to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. &#8212; Miami Dolphins star receiver Tyreek Hill hasn&#8217;t yet decided if he&#8217;s done playing football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-236403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}