{"id":757151,"date":"2026-02-17T01:11:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/757151\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:11:28","slug":"why-chiefs-shouldnt-seek-tyreek-hill-reunion-nostalgia-will-get-you-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/757151\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Chiefs Shouldn’t Seek Tyreek Hill Reunion: ‘Nostalgia Will Get You In Trouble’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Miami Dolphins<\/a> announced they’d released star wide receiver Tyreek Hill<\/a> on Monday, many across the NFL<\/a> community had the same thought: Will he return to the Kansas City Chiefs<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n

FS1’s Willie Colon is strongly advising the Chiefs not to chase their past. On Monday’s “First Things First<\/a>,” the former NFL offensive lineman laid out why Kansas City shouldn’t go after Hill despite its questions at wide receiver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We gotta be careful,” he said. “Nostalgia will get you in trouble. You’re talking about a 30-year-old quarterback coming off a major knee injury, and we’re looking at a team right now \u2014 valid, they’re deficient at the wide receiver position \u2014 but the Chiefs have some major cap issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Chiefs are in a bit of a tricky spot with the salary cap entering the offseason. They’re roughly $55 million north of the salary cap, per Over The Cap, so signing any high-profile free agent might be impossible for Kansas City.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hill is recovering from an ACL tear and a dislocated knee, though, which could theoretically lower his value on the open market. FOX Sports’ Greg Auman<\/a> speculated that Hill could receive a salary of around $18 million next season, as he ranked Hill the 27th-best free agent<\/a> this offseason. That’s about half of what Hill made with Miami in 2025.<\/p>\n

Even if Hill takes that much of a pay cut this offseason, Colon thinks that it would still be a gamble for Kansas City to pursue him.<\/p>\n

“They’re in the business of shopping for a low-value receiver instead of an impact guy, like Tyreek Hill, who you don’t know if you’re going to get the same guy back,” Colon said.<\/p>\n

While Hill was one of the top wide receivers in the NFL for most of his four-year tenure with the Dolphins, he’s set to turn 32 in March and returning from a pretty massive injury. So, adding him would just add another question mark to a Chiefs wide receivers room that has plenty of them. No Kansas City wide receiver reached the 600-yard mark in receiving last season. Veterans Marquise “Hollywood” Brown<\/a> and JuJu Smith-Schuster<\/a> are set to become free agents, while 2024 first-round pick Xavier Worthy<\/a> still really hasn’t broken out yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With the Chiefs having to navigate around a narrow line this offseason to improve their 6-11 roster, Colon thinks it would be best for Kansas City to go after safer targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“If you’re the Chiefs right now, you have to put all your attention toward getting Travis Kelce<\/a> back in the building, because he was the ultimate security blanket for Patrick Mahomes<\/a>,” Colon said. “You’ve got a damn good linebacker in Leo Chenal<\/a>, who I think should remain a Chief, and you’ve got to keep him in the building.”<\/p>\n

Both Kelce and Chenal are free agents this offseason, ranking 39th and 68th, respectively, on FOX Sports’ top 100 free agents list<\/a>. Of course, Kelce is considering retirement, but the 36-year-old was still productive in 2025. He had 76 receptions for 851 yards and five touchdowns this past season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Miami Dolphins announced they’d released star wide receiver Tyreek Hill on Monday, many across the NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2063],"tags":[346,7,118,110,2438,2437,251,122,6,1089],"class_list":{"0":"post-757151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-chiefs","8":"tag-chiefs","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascitychiefs","14":"tag-miami-dolphins","15":"tag-national-football-league","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-tyreek-hill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116083312943912784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}