Chiefs confident they can keep good thing going minus Tyreek Hill

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The Kansas City Chiefs wanted to keep wide receiver Tyreek Hill, but head coach Andy Reid said it came to a point during contract negotiations that it just wasn’t feasible.

"I love Tyreek Hill," Reid said Monday at the NFL meetings in Palm Beach, Florida. The Chiefs last week traded Hill to the Miami Dolphins for five draft picks. "There’s no rift between Tyreek Hill and myself. I thought he deserved an opportunity if that’s where he wanted to go. He’s a family man that has a few kids and he’s got to be able to support them now and down the road, and this gives him an opportunity to do that. At the same time, it gives us great compensation.

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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill (10) celebrates with teammate quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) after catching a 10-yard touchdown pass during the first half of the AFC championship NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

Reid said the team felt like Hill deserved an opportunity.

"We came in aggressive [with a contract offer], and after we got to a point, we just said, ‘Listen, in this day and age you have issues you have to deal with with the cap.’ So we felt like it was better to allow him to go ahead and be traded," Reid said, per ESPN. "You can go different routes with a player. You can play hardball or you can go about it the way I did, or we did."

Overthecap.com shows the Chiefs now have over $23 million in cap space, the fourth-most in the league, after starting the free-agency period with minimal space available.

"You’ve got to be able to manage that the right