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CloseMarcel Louis-Jacques joined ESPN in 2019 as a beat reporter covering the Buffalo Bills, before switching to the Miami Dolphins in 2021. The former Carolina Panthers beat writer for the Charlotte Observer won the award APSE for Breaking News and the South Carolina Press Association Award. for business writing in 2018.
MIAMI — Tyreek Hill has a clear goal for this season.
The Miami Dolphins wide receiver said on his podcast, “It needed to be said,” that he will break the 2,000-yard receiving mark, something that has yet to be accomplished in NFL history.
“I’m going to break 2,000 yards next year, bro,” Hill said. “2,000 yards was on my bucket list before I left this league … 2,000 yards and another Super Bowl, we’re going to get it. Believe it.”
The NFL record for receiving yards in a single season is 1,964, set by former Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson Jr. in 2012. Hill was on pace to break 2,000 yards last season, after hitting for 1,104 yards in his first nine games; countless injuries at the quarterback position derailed his campaign, but he still set career highs with 1,710 yards on 119 receptions.
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Surprisingly, Hill admitted earlier this offseason that he was mostly outdone by his athletic ability in his first year with the Dolphins and that he hadn’t fully understood the playbook.
“Last year, I was out of the game,” he said in June. “He was out there using all his athleticism. Like, ‘Here, [Dolphins quarterback] old [Tagovailoa]I’m going to be here and we’re just going to do it.’ So this year should be a crazier year not just for me, but for the rest of the wideouts as well.”
Miami added receivers Braxton Berrios and Robbie Chosen to a room that already included Hill and Jaylen Waddle, who also had a career-high 1,356 yards last season.
Whether Hill can flirt with or surpass the 2,000-yard mark depends largely on Tagovailoa’s health after the quarterback is limited to 13 regular-season games in 2022. But Hill remains confident in his chances of making NBA history. NFL.
“I feel like I have the right tools around me,” he said. “Obviously I have the most accurate quarterback in the NFL, I have one of the best head coaches in the NFL and also my position coach is a monster as well. So just having those three things and keeping the same mindset. every day that I want to improve and I want to break the record and I want to break the record.
“So I think this is one of those years that I can get it.”
