Tyreek Hill might not be the Dolphins’ model citizen.
Hill, who had served as a team captain for the Dolphins from 2022 to 2024, was noticeably absent when Miami announced the leadership group voted upon by players.
Instead, the Dolphins elected to go with Tua Tagovailoa, Aaron Brewer, Alec Ingold, Jordyn Brooks, Zach Sieler and Bradley Chubb.
Brooks and Chubb will serve the team as first-year team captains.
“I’m really excited about the whole voting process in general this year,” coach Mike McDaniel told reporters. “This team was much more unified, and the focus on those six guys was very clear — those were resounding vote-getters.
“We were focused on giving the keys to captaincy to guys that had earned it each and every day. That’s what speaks to me the most is a football team that knows who it wants to be led by.”
Hill posted 959 yards and six touchdowns in 17 games played last year, his lowest totals in a full season since his rookie year.
McDaniels added that the selection process was “more about the guys we picked and less about the guys we didn’t.”
Hill, who has drawn criticism for his on-and-off-the-field antics throughout his career, left the Miami locker room at the end of last season by telling media that not making the playoffs for the first time was unacceptable to him — and that a trade out of town was an option.
“This is my first time I haven’t been in the playoffs, man. So I just got to do what’s best for me and my family,” Hill said in January. “If that’s here or wherever the case may be, I’m finna open that door for myself. I’m opening the door. I’m out, bro. It was great playing here, but at the end of the day, I gotta do what’s best for my career because I’m too much of a competitor to be just out there.”
At the beginning of training camp, Tagovailoa called Hill out for it.
“When you say something like that, you don’t just come back from that with a, ‘Hey, my bad,’” Tagovailoa said in July.
