Tyreek Hill set to break another Dolphins record this summer and it has nothing to do with catches, yards, or touchdowns
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is set to break a new franchise record in 2025. Hill already owns a number of franchise records after just three seasons in Miami — including the single-season record for receptions (119, twice) and the single-season record for receiving yards (1,799 in 2023). Hill's 2024 season was a bumpy […]
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is set to break a new franchise record in 2025.
Hill already owns a number of franchise records after just three seasons in Miami — including the single-season record for receptions (119, twice) and the single-season record for receiving yards (1,799 in 2023). Hill's 2024 season was a bumpy ride of frustration from the start and the aging star faltered to comfortably his worst season in recent memory.
Hill's next record will come before he even steps foot on the field for Week 1 of the 2025 season. When the Dolphins redistributed Hill's cash compensation amid a contract adjustment last summer, the team scheduled a good portion of the receiver's 2025 compensation to be owed in the form of an option bonus.
That payment, which is $15.85 million in cash, will be spread out across future years of salary cap commitments and is due to be paid to Hill by no later than August 31st, according to the reported details of his contract. Option bonuses are becoming a more popular tool for cap management purposes because they can be treated like a signing bonus and spread out across multiple years of cap bookkeeping without having to restructure the contract.
None of that is groundbreaking or, in this case, record-setting.
But Hill is about to become the most highly-compensated non-quarterback in franchise history. According to OverTheCap.com, the current record-holder in Dolphins franchise history for most cash paid is former cornerback Xavien Howard, who collected a total of $89,153,038 in compensation between the years of 2016-2023. Hill currently ranks second on that list with just under $79.5 million in compensation across three seasons.
Hill's $15.85 million option bonus will push him past Howard and into the all-time top spot on Miami's "cash paid" record books for non-quarterbacks. Had the Dolphins not come to a big second-contract agreement with Tua Tagovailoa, Hill would be poised to sit in first-place among all players regardless of position. But Tagovailoa agreed to a four-year, $212.4 million extension last August and jumped both Hill and Howard in March when his $25 million option bonus was exercised to claim the top spot on Miami's all-time payouts.
The Dolphins almost certainly wouldn't mind getting the 2022-2023 version of Hill to celebrate the milestone in 2025. If they manage to get anything close to that version of Hill, it may well be worth the price of one last ride after a split appeared to be imminent at the end of the 2024 regular season.
Hill, of course, seemed to indicate his wish to move on in what he's described as a fit of frustration. Had the Dolphins not re-worked his contract to guarantee him his 2025 salary ahead of last year, the team very well may have obliged, too. Instead, the Dolphins found Hill at an awkward intersection of variables that seems to have prompted the two sides to settle their differences. For those keeping score, Hill is:
– Rising in age at 31 years old this season
– Owed the seventh-most cash of any wide receiver in 2025 and guaranteed all of it
– Coming off of a wrist injury that required surgery
– The owner of an extensive list of off-field missteps
So with no split in sight, the Dolphins and Hill appear primed to try to wash away the stench of 2024. In the process, Hill will seize a costly throne from another troubled star in the history of the organization and cement his place among Miami's most well-compensated players of all-time.
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