Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill has a torn ligament in his wrist, he told ESPN’s Lisa Salters on Monday. According to Hill, the injury that suffered in August was aggravated by a September incident with Miami-Dade Police Department officers.
“He said it’s something that he’s really being dealing with all season long,” Salters said of the injury on ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown. “He said it first started in training camp, but then he said it got re-aggravated when he was arrested right before the opening game of the season. He was taken to the ground by police … he said that that’s where the further damage was done.
“Tyreek said that he’s had an MRI and that the MRI showed that he has a torn ligament that he said that he’s playing through. He said ‘I just really don’t know what to do, because I’ve never really been injured before. I’m going to keep playing. Nothing’s going to stop me.'”
While Salters said that Hill was arrested in September, he was actually handcuffed and detained, but never arrested by MDPD officers. Video of the incident showed Hill being pulled from his car hours before the Dolphins’ Week 1 game and twice forced to the ground by officers.
Hill first suffered the injury in a joint practice with the Washington Commanders in August. The Dolphins first called it a thumb injury and he wore a brace on his right hand for much of training camp. At the beginning of September, Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said Hill had “no setbacks” and was ready to play the regular season.
After practicing fully Thursday, Hill sat out practice Friday and Saturday due to his wrist injury “heating up,” according to McDaniel. He was questionable for a Week 10 game against the Los Angeles Rams, but Hill is active and will play through the injury.
