Tyreek Hill’s Day Got Off to a Very Bad Start

Handcuffed and Forced to the Ground By Police

William Spivey
The Polis
Published in
6 min readSep 9, 2024

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Miami Dolphins’ Tyreek Hill is detained by police hours before playing Jaguars : NPR

Last month, Tyreek Hill completed the restructure of his NFL contract with the Miami Dolphins. He signed a three-year, $90 million deal with $65 million in guarantees. Hill was ecstatic about his revised contract and stated he would be a Dolphin for the rest of his career.

“I’m here to stay,”

Tyreek is arguably the fastest player in the league. He was Track and Field News “High School Athlete of the Year” in 2012 and used his speed to star at Garden City Community College in Garden City, Kansas; Hill ran track and played football. As a sophomore in 2013, Hill ran for 659 rushing yards and five touchdowns while catching 67 passes for 532 receiving yards. Hill moved on to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

In his only season at Oklahoma State, Hill had 534 rushing yards and one touchdown, 31 receptions for 381 receiving yards and a touchdown, 30 kick returns for 740 return yards and two touchdowns, and 27 punt returns for 256 punt return yards and a touchdown. As a running back, wide receiver, and returner, he accounted for 1,811 all-purpose yards and six touchdowns. On December 11, 2014, Oklahoma State dismissed Hill from their football and track teams following his arrest and guilty plea…

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William Spivey
The Polis

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