Tyreek Hill dusts Tre Flowers at Tuesday's Dolphins-Falcons joint practice
Tyreek Hill has lofty goals for 2023: 2000 receiving yards. From what he's shown so far this offseason, that might not be such a silly thought. Hill has blown by defenders in training camp, and Tuesday's joint practice with the Atlanta Falcons was no different. Hill lined up opposite Tre Flowers, a candidate to start […]
Tyreek Hill has lofty goals for 2023: 2000 receiving yards. From what he's shown so far this offseason, that might not be such a silly thought.
Hill has blown by defenders in training camp, and Tuesday's joint practice with the Atlanta Falcons was no different.
Hill lined up opposite Tre Flowers, a candidate to start at CB for Atlanta, and he quickly flew past him. However, it wasn't a go route, as Hill made a sharp cut to the inside of the field, which completely left Flowers turned around and far behind.
Hill received some interesting comments in an article written by ESPN's Jeremy Fowler last month in which league executives, coaches, and scouts ranked the top 10 players at each position. Hill came in fourth, and one NFC executive referred to him as a "vertical gadget guy."
He won’t give you comeback routes, dig routes consistently — still a bit of a vertical gadget guy,” he said. “What he does takes less precision than Jefferson or [Stefon] Diggs or Adams because he has so much room to work with.”
If said executive had paid a slight bit of attention to what Hill did in Miami last fall, he'd know that Hill was the most productive receiver in the league on a per route basis. Yards per route is a better indicator of a player's productivity on a week-to-week basis. That's not just something a vertical gadget guy will be able to pull off.
As Flowers and the fans in attendance saw on Tuesday, Hill's route-running is more than fine. And if he can get a full season with QB Tua Tagovailoa, he might just fulfill his recent promise.
New Dolphins CB Eli Apple and Tyreek Hill had quite the tiff in 2022
It remains to be seen if the former rivals turned teammates will co-exist well in Miami
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