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Miami Dolphins superstar wide receiver Tyreek Hill played through a wrist injury during Monday night’s 23-15 victory over the Los Angeles Rams. ESPN’s Lisa Salters reported that the injury has been bothering him since training camp and was aggravated when Hill was arrested prior to Miami’s Week 1 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
“He said it’s something that he’s really being dealing with all season long,” Salters said. “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 … and he said that’s where the further damage was done.”
Salters continued to report that Hill suffered a torn ligament which appeared on an MRI. But after the game, when asked to further explain the cause and extent of the injury, Hill did not mention his prior arrest.
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Tyreek Hill Says He Re-Aggravated Wrist Injury By Blocking, Not During Arrest
“Against the Commanders (in the second preseason game),” Hill said when asked how he injured his wrist. “And then I kind of re-aggravated it trying to block my tail off during the course of the year. But it happens. It’s football. No excuses. There’s a lot of guys in the NFL who are hurt, who are injured. It’s part of my job description and I love it.”
Hill caught just three passes for 16 yards in the win over Los Angeles. But he did manage to catch his first touchdown since Week 1 against the Jags.
Miami moved to 3-6 with the victory. But there’s a growing confidence within the team that it could make a playoff push.
The Dolphins are just 2-3 in games that star quarterback Tua Tagovailoa starts this season. But with remaining games against the Jets (x2), Patriots, Browns and Raiders it’s not hard to see why they feel a return trip to the playoffs is possible.