Chris Perkins: Dolphins' Tyreek Hill isn't voted a team captain, and that's a step in the right direction
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Tyreek Hill was not chosen among the Miami Dolphins' six captains for 2025 despite being a captain the prior three seasons. Hill experienced off-field and on-field controversies last season, including a detention outside Hard Rock Stadium and an "I'm out" declaration. The 2025 captains are Tua Tagovailoa, Jordyn Brooks, Zach Sieler, Aaron Brewer, Alec Ingold and Bradley Chubb. Coach Mike McDaniel said players were unified in the vote and clearly focused on those six leaders. The team reduced captains to six after a significant gap between the sixth- and seventh-leading vote-getters, suggesting Hill may have finished seventh.
Dynamic Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill, who started last season being detained by police outside Hard Rock Stadium hours before the opener against Jacksonville and ended last season with his infamous "I'm out" declaration after the finale against the New York Jets, wasn't voted one of the team's six captains by his teammates. I've written about Tyreek's behavior numerous times. I've written that someone must talk to Tyreek .
The 2025 Miami Dolphins team captains are quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, linebacker Jordyn Brooks, defensive tackle Zach Sieler, center Aaron Brewer, fullback Alec Ingold and edge rusher Bradley Chubb. Hill, voted a captain by his teammates the previous three years with the team, was essentially dethroned. There's recent precedent. Ex-safety Jevon Holland, who joined the New York Giants during free agency, was voted a team captain in 2022 and 2023, but not in 2024.
Coach Mike McDaniel said players were " unified" in their this year's vote "and the focus on those six guys were very clear." "I think that's what it speaks to me the most (about)," McDaniel said, "is a football team that knows who they want to be led by." Either is possible. First, let's look at the asterisk and the possible asterisk in the captain voting.
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