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Where Will Tyreek Hill Play in 2025? 🤔
The Cheetah wants out of Miami – where could he run off to next?
It’s official: the 2024 fantasy season has come to a close. If you’re reading this, hopefully you’re doing so as a fantasy football champion – thank you for a fantastic 2024 season, and let’s get ready for an even bigger and better 2025!
Packers WR Christian Watson believed to have suffered torn ACL in Week 18 loss to Bears, ending his season
The hits just keep coming for Watson and managing his health so far in his short career, with the latest obstacle qualifying as a potential knockout punch for his 2025 season. The former North Dakota State Bison pass catcher has yet to play a full 17-game season, and given the timing of his ACL tear, that streak will likely extend into 2025. The fear for Watson is that it’s an ACL tear plus, meaning additional damage to surrounding ligaments (including the MCL, LCL, and PCL) could also be a possibility. Should that be the case, there’s a chance that the better question to ask about Watson’s status for 2025 would be not when he would be able to return to action, but rather if. It’s only been ~48 hours since he suffered the injury, so it’s still too early to say for sure just how much time Watson could miss moving forward. However, one thing is for certain: Watson won’t be suiting up for the Packers’ wild card game against the Eagles this weekend, and he’ll almost assuredly be out for any subsequent games after that. Given Watson’s struggles through hamstring injuries and now the new ACL tear, his dynasty stock will likely dip to an all-time low. He’ll profile as nothing more than a long-shot lottery ticket for teams patient enough to play the long game with him – especially given his athletic ability that ultimately made him a second round pick back in 2022. However, Watson’s rookie deal is up at the end of the 2025 season, meaning we may not see him play any meaningful snaps between now and its expiration. That adds another layer of uncertainty to Watson’s future in the league should the Packers ultimately decide to part ways with him a year from now.
Seahawks fire OC Ryan Grubb, former OC for the Washington Huskies, following conclusion to 2024 season
There was hope that Grubb would be able to revive what had become a stagnant Seahawks passing offense with Shane Waldron at the controls in 2023, but those hopes were left unfulfilled – at least according to Seahawks brass. The team officially parted ways with Grubb as their OC following the final game of a disappointing season for the Seahawks that saw them fail to qualify for the playoffs – and perhaps more importantly, saw the falloff of D.K. Metcalf out of fantasy relevance. Metcalf posted his fewest targets, receptions, receiving yards, and touchdowns since his rookie season back in 2019 while also posting his worst fantasy finish (WR35) as a starter in his career. It wasn’t all bad though for Seattle’s pass catchers, as WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba had perhaps the biggest breakout of any player in fantasy this season under Grubb. He finished with a very promising 131-96-1121-6 line to cap his first top-10 fantasy season of his two-year career, cementing himself as one of the league’s top weapons out of the slot. With Grubb out the door, though, the offense could stand to look much different than the pass-happy approach he deployed in 2024. HC Mike MacDonald said didn’t confirm or deny whether or not Geno Smith would return as starter for Seattle on the final year of his deal in 2025, but barring a drastic development, it would seem fair to expect the Seahawks to let him play it out next season. That would maintain as much continuity as is reasonably possible for an offense that lost its OC, but the next hire could have significant effects on how we treat Seattle’s WR corps in 2025.
Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill reportedly wants out of Miami after Dolphins fail to qualify for playoffs in 2024
Things went from 0 to 100 in a matter of minutes following the Dolphins’ unceremonious close to the 2024 regular season. After notching the fewest receiving yards and touchdowns on the season since his rookie year in 2016 (likely a result of multiple extended absences from his QB, Tua Tagovailoa), Hill has apparently had enough of his time in Miami and indicated shortly after the game that he wants ‘out’ for the 2025 season. He continued to stir the pot on social media yesterday when he changed his Twitter/X profile picture to a photo of his face on Antonio Brown’s body when he famously left a game with the Bucs midway through against the Jets. Whether or not Hill’s demand is a legitimate, formal one is anyone’s guess, and it’s also an entirely different question of whether or not the Dolphins will honor his request to leave – after all, he’s just one year into a three-year deal he signed with the team through 2026. The prospect of Tyreek Hill being on the move threatens to pull up the rug both in Miami’s receiving room and whichever prospective offense’s he would land with; however, Hill also isn’t quite the spring chicken he was when he left Kansas City three years ago, and it’s not completely unfair to question whether or not this is the beginning of a potential decline in his quality of production at this point in his career. Regardless, Hill has planted the first seed of what will likely be a garden of chaos as usual this offseason as free agency and the draft come further into view.
The Ideal Destination: Los Angeles Chargers
Before the Ladd McConkey hive comes at me for this one, take a second to see the vision. This would be infinitely preferable to the Chargers going out and drafting someone like Tetairoa McMillan or signing some big name in free agency like Tee Higgins. Both of those would presumably be long-term investments (think 3-4 years). If the Chargers add Hill, he could add a vertical dimension to the passing game (which isn’t McConkey’s role anyway) and be there for likely, at max, two seasons. Obviously there would be cap gymnastics to work out, and Quentin Johnston would likely be made as obsolete as he’s been in the Chargers offense in his career – but McConkey doesn’t profile exactly as a bona fide WR1 like the Puka Nacua’s and Brian Thomas Jr.’s of the world. Operating as a 1A and 1B in a Chargers offense predicated on the run should allow Herbert to be efficient and return Tyreek Hill, at the very least, to the low-WR1 ranks while maintaining McConkey as a strong WR2 start with every-week WR1 upside.
The Most Likely Destination: Miami Dolphins
Not to drop a wet towel on the flames of change for Tyreek Hill, but he just signed a huge three-year contract ahead of the 2024 season that locks him into Miami through the 2026 season – meaning he’s not slated to be a free agent until 2027. His $30M APY is also going to be a tough selling point for teams looking to pick up some big help at WR, especially given the fact that he’s coming off his worst season as a starter since his rookie year and will be the ripe age of 31 next year. Unless the Dolphins are willing to eat a good amount of the money on the deal or move their No. 1 wide receiver for pennies on the dollar (think the Cowboys and Amari Cooper back in 2022), it’s hard to imagine a scenario where Hill is feasibly moved out of Miami to an alternate destination. Emotions always run high at the end of a disappointing season, and it’s only been two says since the close of the regular season. It’s fun to play matchmaker when a premier talent like Hill is looking to be on the move, but I’m not going to put the cart before the horse and assume that just because he wants out of Miami that he’s ultimately going to have that request granted.
The Most Chaotic Destination: Kansas City Chiefs
Put Rashee Rice coming off a major knee injury, Xavier Worthy riding a hot streak to finish his rookie year, an aging but still-productive Travis Kelce, and Tyreek Hill returning to his old stomping grounds in the same receiving room, and what do you get? Besides hell for us fantasy analysts to try and sort out, you also get one of the most unpredictable collections of talent in the NFL – and from that unpredictable collection of talent would spring one of the most infuriating groups of players to decide between each week for fantasy football. The number of variables that would be at play in a prospective Chiefs receiving corps with Tyreek Hill back in it would be unfathomable; between aging veterans, potentially stunted growth in target share for Xavier Worthy and Hollywood Brown (maybe, if the Chiefs return him too?), and the Patrick Mahomes not being a stat God question, it would be utter chaos if Hill were to reunite with the team that drafted him. And for that reason, I don’t want to see Hill don the red and gold again in 2025.