Shocking News: Tyreek Hill rejects contract extension as he aim for a big move deal

Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill has been trying to get a revised contract since the end of the 2023 season. A string of new deals for other players has complicated that process, culminating in teammate Jaylen Waddle getting $28.25 million per year in new money and Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson pushing the bar for all non-quarterbacks to $35 million per year.

Hill is under contract for three more years. He’s due to make $19.765 million in 2024, $22.935 million in 2025, and $45 million in 2026. That’s $87.7 million in existing obligations, an average of $29.23 million per year. The 2024 salary is fully guaranteed.

The final year of $45 million was aimed at artificially bumping the new-money average on the two-year-old contract from $25 million to $30 million. The key to making Hill happier with his contract situation could be to move that remaining money around.

The simplest approach would be to make it $29.23 million in each of the next three years, with the first two years fully guaranteed.

That would get him past Waddle in annual average (sort of), and it would make the meaningless final year of the existing contract meaningful.

Additionally, if Hill is adamant about having a higher average at signing, the contract may be extended by one or two more bogus years.

Hill wants something done, no matter how things turn out. The Dolphins may theoretically inform him that he is expected to uphold the terms of his current contract, which is only two years old. On the one hand, that might lead to Hill being challenging in 2024, much like he seemed to be (at least in private) in his last season with the Chiefs. However, Hill may come to the realization that it will come across negatively if he complains his way out of Miami before moaning his way out of Kansas City.

The ideal result would be to figure out a means to reallocate Hill’s funds so that he receives more this year and can present his circumstances as involving more than $25 million in fresh funding annually, given that the $45 million that is due in 2026 was and is fictitious.