Tyreek Hill says the work to get his left leg back is still very much a grind, and right now he’s not pretending otherwise.
In a video posted to his YouTube channel, the veteran receiver showed himself training while talking through the state of the knee he injured in Week 4 last year. Hill said the leg still isn’t where he wants it, and that the biggest issue is the lack of strength he feels in it.
“So it’s about 10 months after doing two surgeries,” Hill said. “My left leg is the one that I injured.
I have no power in my left leg, so I’m trying to regain all the power back in my left leg. But it’s one day at a time.”
Hill also said he was told after the injury that he “might not be able to walk again,” but added that he feels good 10 months after the two surgeries. The video showed him going through several drills, including some short running that he said he wasn’t supposed to be doing yet.
That recovery remains the big question hanging over the 32-year-old. It was reported in May that Hill might not play in 2026 because of the dislocated knee and multiple ligament tears he suffered last season. ESPN’s Nate Taylor said the Chiefs are expected to monitor Hill’s recovery, though they’re the only team specifically linked to him right now.
Hill’s career path has already taken him from Kansas City to Miami and back into uncertainty. A former fifth-round pick of the Chiefs in 2016, he was entering the final year of his four-year, $2.58 million deal in 2019 when Kansas City signed him to a three-year, $54 million extension with $35.2 million guaranteed.
The Chiefs traded him to the Dolphins during the 2022 offseason, and Hill then landed a four-year, $120 million contract with Miami that included $72.2 million guaranteed. Heading into the 2024 season, he agreed to a reworked three-year, $90 million deal with $65 million in guarantees after being due base salaries of $19.665 million and $21.835 million over the next two seasons.
Miami released Hill in February 2026 while he was still working back from the major leg injury.
Before that release, Hill played in four games for the Dolphins in 2025, catching 21 passes on 29 targets for 265 yards and one touchdown.
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