After back-to-back playoff appearances under head coach Mike McDaniel, the Miami Dolphins took a step back in 2024. Tua Tagovailoa’s concussion struggles held back the team, with the star quarterback missing six games.
With some of the team’s stars in the later stages of their NFL careers, insider Albert Breer has suggested that it may be time to reset. In Breer’s view, there may be only one place to start: trading away Tyreek Hill.
Albert Breer Believes Miami Dolphins Should Trade Tyreek Hill
The Dolphins may have made the playoffs in 2024 had their quarterback not gotten injured. But after losing in the Wild Card round in 2022 and 2023, the team was never considered among the favorites for the Super Bowl.
McDaniel’s “speed kills” approach to offense has made Miami an unstoppable force at times, but it has failed him in the postseason. And with the clock ticking for several of the team’s stars, Breer thinks the team should consider cashing in on Hill.
“Hill (30), Jalen Ramsey (29) and Bradley Chubb (28)—will be 29 or older at the start of camp and have missed significant time over the past two years. Meanwhile, Tua Tagovailoa is now off his rookie contract, and there is some cap debt to manage from the aggressive building over the next few years.
“Also, it’s hard to imagine either Ramsey or Chubb, when the time comes, will bring a big return to help reset the team’s roster. I believe Hill still can.”
Are the Dolphins Facing a Rebuild?
Breer’s stance was prompted by veteran lineman Terron Armstead’s decision to retire from football. Armstead was a key piece of the Dolphins’ offense and leaves the team with another hole to fill moving forward.
Breer writes that Miami has a decision to make, arguing that if it can’t win a championship in the short term, it needs to move on from Hill.
“Now, it would be painful, to be sure, to lose a guy who’s meant so much to how Mike McDaniel has built his program over the past three years. But at this point, with Armstead gone and significant questions on the roster (fingers crossed for Miami on second-year man Patrick Paul at left tackle), the hard question they have to ask themselves is whether they can win a championship with the current group.
“If the answer is no (and I’m not saying it is), then it makes sense for the Armstead decision to set off a plan for McDaniel and GM Chris Grier to rebuild around Tagovailoa on the fly. Getting a haul of picks for Hill would be a sensible place to start.”