Two years ago, Tyreek Hill became the highest-paid receiver in football with an average salary of $30 million on his new contract.
There are now two problems with this contract, one of which has been there since it was signed. First, the $30 million has been and always will be a sham, a hoax, a sham. To make it $30 million per year, the final year compensation package was inflated to a ridiculously unrealistic $45 million.
Subtract that from his four-year, $120 million extension. Hill received a three-year, $75 million contract extension.The real, real, actual average new investor is not $30 million. It's $25 million.
Second, recent contracts compare very favorably to Hill's. This offseason, Hill's fake $30 million contract was matched and surpassed by Amon-Ra St. Brown and A.J. Brown without the fake final year. More recently, Texans receiver Nico Collins (represented by the same Drew Rosenhaus who represents Hill) signed a three-year extension with a real rookie average of $24.25 million.
Could the Texans and Collins have added a fake fourth year with a $47.25 million compensation package, raising his average annual salary to $30 million? They could have. And that's exactly what the Dolphins and Hill did.
Add in the fact that Hill's salary this year is just $19.765 million, and he might be getting impatient. Just take a look at what he said earlier this month about finishing his career in Miami: “I love the team I play for, I love the guys in the locker room, I love my head coach, I love my GM. I mean, sign me“…I love you all so much I want to stay in Miami. Keep it that way.”
Would you mind signing me? He has three more years on his contract.
That's not my signature. Pay me.
And that voice will only get louder as other receivers sign new contracts. What if Justin Jefferson actually makes more than $35 million a year? What if Ja'Marr Chase comes close?
“Please sign.”
“Pay me.”
After all, with so much attention now focused on new contract negotiations with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, the Dolphins need to think about pleasing their best player. Our guess is that there is already some internal stirring to get something done beyond what he has said publicly.
If not, that will be the case once Jefferson gets paid. After all, it was Davante Adams' 2022 contract that prompted Hill to ask for a new contract. And that request resulted in Hill playing for a new team.
