
Miami Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill appears on Instagram with heavily bandaged wrist
Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill appears to have had a procedure on his wrist, according to the receiver’s Instagram story.
In what initially seemed to be a rather innocuous post on Instagram, Hill called for all his fans to meet him at the Aventura Mall, the location of his Soul Runner store. One thing, however, stood out: a heavily bandaged left wrist.
“I’ll be up there all day, hanging out,” Hill said, waving around his left arm. “Come vibe with me. Come ask me questions.”
It’s unclear whether Hill actually had surgery, however, it should be noted that Hill’s agent Drew Rosenhaus claimed his client allegedly “broke” during the joint practices with the Washington Commanders in the 2024 preseason.
“Tyreek’s scrimmaging with the Washington Commanders, and he breaks his wrist,” Rosenhaus said during a Jan. 9 taping of “The Pat McAfee Show.” “We have top wrist doctors saying to Tyreek, ‘You need to get this operated on, you’re gonna miss the season.’ Tyreek says to me and the Dolphins, ‘I’m not gonna miss the season. I wanna play. I wanna be here for my team.’”
Added Rosenhaus: “This hampered him all year long.”
When reached for comment, the Dolphins declined to confirm.
Similar to Rosenhaus, Hill always maintained that the joint scrimmages with the Commanders were the initial source of his injury. That is, until he referenced his run-in with Miami-Dade police during an interview with ESPN’s Lisa Salter.
“He said that it’s something that he’s really been dealing with all season long,” Salters said during the Monday Night Football preview show on Nov. 11. “He said it first started in training camp, but then he said it got re-aggravated when he was arrested right before the opening game of the season. He said he was taken to the ground by police — we remember seeing that video — and he said that that’s where the further damage was done. Tyreek told me that he’s had an MRI, and he said that the MRI has shown that he has a torn ligament. That he said he is playing through it. . . . And he said he’s just been quiet about it all season long.”
In a Dec. 23 interview with the Miami Herald, Hill doubled down on the injury’s “torn ligament” designation yet also explained why he never wanted to sit out the 2025 season.
“I have a certain standard that I want to set for my family and that standard is to never quit, never back down no matter what you’re going through in life because adversity hits us all,” Hill said, later adding that he has “a torn ligament in my wrist but I played through worse.”
The injury was certainly something that nagged Hill all year as he finished with the worst yards per game average since his rookie year. His 959 receiving yards were also the lowest total since his injury-riddled 2019 season.