Tyreek Hill seems to downplay talk of Kansas City Chiefs suppressing his statistics
The point of any teaser trailer is to get people interested in a movie, television show or, in the case of former Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill, a podcast.
Hill’s new podcast, “It Needed To Be Said” is coming soon, and the first episode appears to be about his trade to the Miami Dolphins. Hill and co-host Julius Collins talk with Hill’s agent Drew Rosenhaus in the episode.
In a teaser released Wednesday, Hill made it clear he wanted to stay with the Chiefs and said he didn’t seek “a crazy amount of money.”
After Hill was traded, Rosenhaus told a radio station in Miami the five-year, $141.25 million contract Davante Adams received from the Raiders was the kind of money Hill wanted.
If the Chiefs wouldn’t pay that, “then the right thing to do for everyone’s benefit would be for the team to have an unprecedented trade, and for Tyreek to go to a team that would be willing to make him the highest-paid receiver,” Rosenhaus said in March.
People may have a different interpretation of “a crazy amount of money,” or perhaps Rosenhaus misspoke in March.
The teaser video ends with Collins and Hill talking about the Chiefs.
“This was a situation where you know what your capable of, Drew knows what you’re capable of,” Collins said.
Hill responded: “Correct.”
“The team knows what you’re capable of, but they just didn’t utilize you,” Collins said. “Now follow up on that: Do you think this was a situation to suppress his stats? To drop that value down when it came to a potential trade or signing?”
The video cuts out after Rosenhaus says, “You know...” and Hill is about to say something.
That would lead the viewer to think Hill believes the Chiefs were suppressing his statistics, right? Many Chiefs fans thought that was being implied in the teaser.
Here is the teaser trailer.
Hill seemed to downplay the stat suppression angle with a Twitter message on Thursday.
“If it didn’t come from the source don’t believe it,” Hill tweeted.
Judging by the amount of talk on social media, a lot of people are going to listen to that podcast when it’s available. And then fans will know exactly what Hill thought about the trade and his usage in Kansas City.
This story was originally published June 2, 2022 at 1:11 PM.
