For the second time in his career, Tyreek Hill has avoided a suspension in connection with an off-field incident. An NFL review of the Dolphins wide receiver’s conduct at a Florida marina this summer will not produce any punishment, Ian Rapoport of NFL.com tweets.
A video showed Hill slapping a worker at a Miami-era marina, leading to police and NFL investigations. After the Miami-Date State Attorney’s Office declined to hit Hill with a misdemeanor assault charge, the league will follow suit in not taking any action.
This incident does not rival Hill’s two past off-field scandals, which both pertained to domestic violence, but the controversial wide receiver will again avoid a suspension. In 2019, an NFL investigation into alleged Hill child abuse — one limited by a Kansas district attorney’s office — did not bring a suspension for the talented receiver. Hill pleading guilty to punching and choking his pregnant girlfriend in 2014 led to his dismissal from Oklahoma State, but no NFL suspension could commence for that incident due to it having occurred before the eventual fifth-round pick entered the league.
The June marina dustup took place after Hill and an unidentified man were fishing for tarpon from the marina dock, which a Kelley Fishing Fleet employee told police is illegal. After being told to exit the boat, Hill “became enraged” at the boat captain and needed to be restrained by other members of his group. An expletive-laden tirade ensued, with Hill soon identifying himself as “No. 10 from the Miami Dolphins,” telling the boat captain that he could “buy you and the boat.” As Hill walked away, he slapped a 57-year-old Kelley Fishing Fleet employee, who was not the boat captain that drew the receiver’s ire minutes earlier. Hill, 29, had told one of his associates to give the employee $200. The employee declined the offer.
Thursday’s news keeps Hill in the clear ahead of his second season with the Dolphins. The Chiefs traded Hill for a five-asset package, including a 2022 first-round pick, in March of last year. The Dolphins gave the all-time speed merchant a receiver-record extension (four years, $120MM). Hill produced his third first-team All-Pro season as a receiver last year, totaling career-high numbers in receptions (119) and yards (1,710) in his Dolphins debut. Four years remain on Hill’s Miami deal.
A suspension wasn’t ever an option. He’s just too good at his job.
If it was you, you have already served your 2 year sentence.
He slapped him on June 18th 2023, it hasn’t been 11 weeks yet. How would I have already served my 2 year sentence less than 11 weeks after the alleged incident?
Did I find a time machine in my cell?
Perhaps it’s a simultaneous dig at both the disparity in sentencing for the wealthy and the lenient enforcement of sentencing itself?
Slaps a dude in the face how is that not battery?
Because money.
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That’ll teach him
Street thug that laws do not apply to him
Three strikes and you’re……..still untouchable.
NFL justice…
Good thing he didn’t place a bet on Draft Kings
sethesq:
Don’t care who you are….
That’s damn funny right there.
Thank God he isn’t a filthy pot smoker. All those guys should be suspended indefinitely. Way worse than habitual violence.
Can you imagine if a white player had hit a black marina employee in the back of the head? I hope the employee sues the hell out of that punk ass. Hitting an old man makes it worse. What a piece of garbage Tyreek Hill is.
There’s been about a thousand comments in this forum before yours stating player X or player Y or player Z was “garbage”. I’ll let you in on a little secret…fans simply don’t care about a player’s character if he can help their favorite team win games. Will you be turning off the TV and boycotting the NFL because you consider Hill a terrible person? I didn’t think so.
For the most part, yes. I barely watch games anymore cause many of the players are criminals and many of the players hate their country so my choice is not to watch. Once in a while I’ll watch if there is a team I like on with players I mostly like.
There are far more criminals and individuals with poor character qualities in the corporate world than in the NFL so does that mean we are going to stop using all the products and services these companies and institutions provide? That would be virtually impossible. it’s simply not realistic to think the NFL or the world around us can be a utopian paradise.
Problem is we don’t see those people every Thursday or Sunday on our TV screen. How long can we continue to give criminals a pass just because the can play a game better than another guy? Wife beaters, murderers, drunks, drug addicts and all manner of thugs or wannabe thugs are playing a game for millions of dollars when they should be in prison.
Fans should care about the character of the players they watch, and the NFL should be penalizing them for their actions. For three straight years this clown has assaulted someone in the off-season, and no penalties. Is that the kind of punk you want your kids or grandkids watching every week. Hey kids, it’s okay to beat your wife or smack an old man in the head because you can catch a ball better than someone else. Eventually this trash is going to run into someone who who doesn’t care who he is and he’s going to get beaten down or worse. Then everyone will be saying,” Poor Tyreek, he was such a good guy who never hurt a fly. Oh, except for women, oh and old people.” He’s a punk and needs to face the consequences of his action.