{"id":90943,"date":"2025-05-30T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/90943\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:33:12","slug":"dolphins-tyreek-hill-i-gotta-prove-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/90943\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins&#8217; Tyreek Hill: &#8216;I gotta prove myself&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/83638393007-eagles-chiefs-sb.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-play-alt-white.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Five NFL games we can&#8217;t wait to watch in the 2025 season<\/p>\n<p>The NFL schedule for the 2025-2026 season has been released. Here are a few games on our must-watch list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/players\/tyreek-hill\/823156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tyreek Hill<\/a> is ready to turn the page and begin a new chapter with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Miami Dolphins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hill&#8217;s 2024 season began with him being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/dolphins\/2024\/09\/08\/tyreek-hill-detained-miami-dolphins-police\/75132451007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">detained by police outside Hard Rock Stadium<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/01\/05\/tyreek-hill-comments-dolphins-trade-contract\/77478920007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended with him ready to move on<\/a>. But that trade never came and Hill is back in the fold for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>He has some fences to mend in advance of training camp.<\/p>\n<p>The receiver is now singing a different tune at organized team activities (OTAs), saying on Wednesday that he needs to prove himself again as a receiver and a teammate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s every day in this league,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CameronWolfe\/status\/1927783579389423795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hill told reporters, via NFL Network&#8217;s Cameron Wolfe<\/a>. &#8220;Every day, you&#8217;ve got to prove who you are, and it doesn&#8217;t matter how much you&#8217;ve earned or how much success you&#8217;ve had in this league. It&#8217;s always the next day mentality. That&#8217;s something that my grandparents raised me by and that&#8217;s something Mike (McDaniel) preaches here in this locker room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every day, I&#8217;m trying to prove myself as one of those guys that this team can depend on in crucial moments. I&#8217;m (going to) stand on that, too, though, just me as a person, as a player, as an individual. I try to carry myself in that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hill missed the playoffs for the first time in his nine-year career last season, which seemed to be a major source of frustration following a Week 18 loss to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-jets\/352\" data-autotag=\"61e70eee-950b-4335-a373-675b010563dc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was tough. Obviously, emotions were high then,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;At the end of the day, man, I&#8217;m just looking to move forward from that, hoping that I can prove to myself and prove to my teammates that I&#8217;m still one of them ones, man, who likes chasing 2K (receiving yards), still one of those ones chasing playoff dreams and all that great stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2025\/04\/09\/tyreek-hill-domestic-dispute-miami-dolphins-police\/83015575007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Going through a divorce<\/a> in his personal life and nearly one in his professional life, Hill was asked how he is dealing with frustrations now. The receiver said has taken on a new approach this offseason, telling reporters that he&#8217;s been spending more time in church and therapy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For one, &#8230; I&#8217;m going to church more and doing more therapy more,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been finding that more of my side lately, just being more involved in that. Then, just understanding what coach is trying to do. I feel like when I first got here, I wouldn&#8217;t say that I wasn&#8217;t all the way bought in, but me having a better understanding of what he&#8217;s trying to push throughout the locker room, I feel like now I understand him better. I understand Tua (Tagovailoa) better, I understand Bev (offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell). Our new receiver coach (Robert Prince), me and him clicked immediately when he got here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody&#8217;s on the same page, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his desire to be a team captain, Hill responded by saying he doesn&#8217;t deserve it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I gotta prove myself,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OmarKelly\/status\/1927785097291247795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hill said, via the Miami Herald&#8217;s Omar Kelly<\/a>. &#8220;This OTAs, training camp, I gotta prove myself. I gotta show up different. The mindset gotta be different. I don&#8217;t feel like I deserve it, and if I didn&#8217;t get it, I wouldn&#8217;t dwell on it. I wouldn&#8217;t sweat it because I put myself in that position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A five-time All-Pro, Hill failed to reach 1,000 receiving yards for just the third time in his career last season. His third year in Miami proved to be the worst after two 1,700-yard seasons following his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Hill battled a wrist injury all season long and dealt with the floundering <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/miami-dolphins\/345\" data-autotag=\"22ef43a4-dc5a-43ce-87cd-912a7e348a81\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dolphins<\/a>&#8216; offense, which struggled to find the magic from years prior \u2013 dropping from the second-best scoring offense in 2023 to 22nd-ranked in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off surgery to repair that nagging injury, the 31-year-old will work to regain his form in 2025, in the hopes that Miami does, too.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, this season is already off to a better start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five NFL games we can&#8217;t wait to watch in the 2025 season The NFL schedule for the 2025-2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[247,265,217,7,1077,226,216,251,2087,248,267,246,206,255,88,6,245,264,9,266,1076,1089,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-90943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-dolphins","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-hill","13":"tag-jets","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-dolphins","16":"tag-miamidolphins","17":"tag-national","18":"tag-national-sports","19":"tag-neutral","20":"tag-new","21":"tag-new-york-jets","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-neutral","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-news","28":"tag-tyreek","29":"tag-tyreek-hill","30":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114597514908670422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90943","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=90943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}