Tua Tagovailoa says Tyreek Hill working to regain Dolphins' trust - ESPN

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is still rebuilding his relationship with his teammates this offseason after his comments at the end of the 2024 season.

Hill removed himself from the Dolphins' regular season finale against the New York Jets before suggesting to reporters after the game that he'd like to play football elsewhere; Dolphins general manager Chris Grier said Hill never requested a trade and Hill apologized for and walked back his comments in February.

Speaking after the Dolphins' first training camp practice Wednesday, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa said building that relationship back up isn't necessarily a simple process, but Hill is putting in the work to do so.

«It's not just with me, it's with a lot of the guys. I'm not the only one that heard that. You guys aren't the only people that heard that,» Tagovailoa said. «A lot of people that follow football, that follow the Miami Dolphins, that follow Tyreek that are fans of his — everyone has seen that. So, when you say something like that, you don't just come back from that with, 'hey, my bad.' You got to work that relationship up, you've got to build everything back up again.

»He's working on himself, he's working on the things that he says he wants to get better with and do better on. So that's the first step to me, and so I commend him for doing that."

Last season was tumultuous for the Dolphins as a whole, and Hill was no exception. He recorded just 959 yards and six touchdowns on 81 catches last season — a sharp decline from the consecutive 1,700-yard seasons he posted in his first two years with the team.

Miami missed the playoffs, marking the first time Hill has missed the playoffs in his nine-year NFL career; he since explained