On Monday, Drew Rosenhaus, agent to free-agent wide receiver Tyreek Hill, told ESPN’s Adam Schefter, “I would anticipate Tyreek potentially signing with a team over the next few days.”

It is Thursday, and as of this writing, Hill has not signed with an NFL team.

But Hill, who formerly starred for the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins, is subject of a civil assault and battery trial stemming from disturbing allegations made by Lakeeta Vaccaro, his estranged wife.

Up to now, analysts and reporters across NFL media have operated under the assumption that Hill will reunite with the Chiefs, with whom he won Super Bowl LIV. Nick Wright, star of FS1’s First Things First and his What’s Wright? podcast, predicted in 2024 that Hill would return to Kansas City in 2026.

But now that he’s on the precipice of an epic sports-take victory lap, Wright doesn’t feel good about it.

On Wednesday, Wright made one of his regular appearances on The Dan Le Batard Show. Greg Cote asked him, “Nick, the idea of Tyreek Hill 2.0 in K.C. Yes, or hell no?”

“Well, prior to the news yesterday, I had been pretty adamant that this was going to happen,” Wright said. “I think I told you guys two years ago that I thought that, sometime in 2026, Tyreek Hill would be a Chief. That was before he had the catastrophic knee injury. So, let’s segment it for a moment.”

“Tyreek Hill, the football player: even if he is a greatly diminished version of himself, he was such a 1-of-1, raw, natural athlete that 75% of Tyreek Hill post-injury still might be a plus receiver in the NFL,” Wright said, noting Hill would seamlessly fit with the Chiefs after Tyquan Thornton dislocating his ankle last Sunday.

Then, Wright pivoted to the ugly reality of his favorite football team potentially re-entering the Tyreek Hill business.

“We’ve had a ton of evidence, dating back to college, that Tyreek Hill, in all likelihood, is a bad dude,” Wright said.

Dan Le Batard interjected to note, “A danger to women and children. A danger to women and children.”

“OK, yeah, absolutely,” Wright said. “I wasn’t trying to soft sell it. Absolutely.”

In August 2015, as Wright alluded to, Hill pleaded guilty to domestic assault and battery by strangulation, resulting in three years of probation. The Chiefs drafted him anyway. In April 2019, Hill faced allegations of child abuse, though the Johnson County District Attorney’s office declined to file charges.

“I can’t pretend like I didn’t know that when I was rooting for him on the Chiefs,” Wright said. “People come at me all the time. They’re like, ‘When are you gonna talk about this?’ I’ve talked about this for years. When I used to do a radio show on Mad Dog was when the allegation came out six years ago that he broke his kid’s arm.”

Wright continued, widening the lens to the moral dilemma associated with sports fandom:

“When that happened, I, live on the radio, said, ‘You just gotta get rid of this guy,’” Wright added. “Enough’s enough. But again, I try to just be honest with the audience and let them judge me how they see fit. If the audience here is like, ‘Oh, okay, Nick, so you were fine with first two domestic abuse allegations, but the third strike and he’s out. Where’s your moral compass?’ That’s a fair critique to have.

“I also find rooting for pro sports, particularly the NFL, if you are going to be unable to root for your team if they have guys that you would never want to be around or have around people you care about, you’re gonna run out of teams in very short order. It’s not that it’s complicated; it’s that it’s messy.”

Unlike most sports media voices, outside of Mike Florio, Le Batard addressed the elephant in the room of Hill’s active Personal Conduct Policy review. Le Batard expressed his opinion that, should Hill sign with an NFL team, “he will suffer a penalty under the Personal Conduct code,” such as suspension.

“If that’s the case, then I don’t think anybody will sign him,” Wright said, noting that he’s less certain of an inevitable NFL punishment due to the NFL’s ethical inconsistencies.

“If people want to know, if the Chiefs sign Tyreek Hill, will I stop rooting for them, the answer to that is no, I won’t,” Wright said. “And if people want to say I’m a bad guy because of it, that’s fine. I’m just being honest with you. If you are asking me, do I want the Chiefs, given that testimony yesterday, to sign Tyreek Hill, the answer to that question is also no. Do I think they still might? The answer to that question is yes. I think they still might.”

And if the Chiefs, or any NFL team, signs Hill, we should likely brace for more from where the NFL media’s tone deaf Deshaun Watson redemptive arc came from, though we can always hope for more nuanced conversations like Wright’s with the Le Batard crew.