‘Believe that’: Dolphins’ Hill vows to top 2K yards

MIAMI — Tyreek Hill has a transparent aim for this season.

The Miami Dolphins broad receiver stated on his podcast, “It Wanted to Be Mentioned,” that he’ll break the two,000-yard receiving mark, one thing that is but to be completed in NFL historical past.

“I’ll break 2,000 yards subsequent 12 months, bro,” Hill stated. “2,000 yards was on my bucket checklist to get earlier than I depart this league … 2,000 yards and one other Tremendous Bowl — we getting that. Imagine that.”

The NFL document for receiving yards in a single season is 1,964, set by former Detroit Lions broad receiver Calvin Johnson Jr. in 2012. Hill was on tempo to interrupt 2,000 yards final season, after hitting 1,104 yards in his first 9 video games; myriad accidents on the quarterback place derailed his marketing campaign, however he nonetheless set profession highs with 1,710 yards on 119 receptions.

Remarkably, Hill admitted earlier this offseason that he acquired by primarily on his athletic capacity in his first 12 months with the Dolphins and hadn’t fairly grasped the playbook.

“Final 12 months, I used to be simply on the market balling,” he stated in June. “I used to be simply on the market simply utilizing all athleticism. Like, ‘Right here, [Dolphins quarterback] Previous [Tagovailoa]I will be right here and we’re simply going to try this.’ So, this 12 months ought to be a crazier 12 months not just for me, however for additionally for the opposite wideouts.”

Miami added receivers Braxton Berrios and Robbie Chosen to a room that already included Hill and Jaylen Waddlewho additionally set a profession excessive final season with 1,356 yards.

Whether or not Hill can flirt with or surpass the two,000-yard mark largely depends upon the well being of Tagovailoa after the quarterback was restricted to 13 regular-season video games in 2022. However Hill stays assured in his odds of constructing NFL historical past.

“I really feel like I’ve acquired the appropriate instruments round me,” he stated. “I’ve acquired clearly probably the most correct quarterback within the NFL, I’ve acquired the most effective head coaches within the NFL and likewise my place coach is a monster additionally. So simply having these three issues and me simply maintaining the identical mindset every day that I need to get higher and I need to break the document and I do need to break the document.

“So I really feel like that is a kind of years that I can obtain it.”