Tyreek Hill’s wrist injury was hidden, for weeks

Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill missed practice on Friday and Saturday with a wrist injury. He played on Monday night. Before the game, he made it clear that the wrist is — and has been — a problem.

Consider this quote from ESPN’s Lisa Salters from the Monday night pregame show, regarding Hill’s wrist: “He said that it’s something that he’s really been dealing with all season long. 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 said he was taken to the ground by police — we remember seeing that video — and he said that that’s where the further damage was done. Tyreek told me that he’s had an MRI, and he said that the MRI has shown that he has a torn ligament. That he said he is playing through it. . . . And he said he’s just been quiet about it all season long. So I said to him, ‘Do you not want me to say anything about it? Because you just told me all about it.’ He said, ‘It’s fine. It’s something that I have to deal with.'”

It’s now something the Dolphins might have to deal with, too. Because even though Hill has been dealing with the wrist injury since before Week 1, he didn’t appear on the injury report with a wrist injury until Week 10.

Will the league look into it? Probably not. If so, there probably won’t be a punishment. In an age of legalized gambling, the NFL seems to be very careful about admitting to the world that teams are violating the injury reports. Once that happens, folks who have placed wagers with sports books that stuff sponsorship dollars into the pockets of the NFL might want refunds. And one of them might file a class action against the NFL and the team that hid the injury seeking full reimbursement for all relevant wagers (including Hill’s prop bets that failed to hit the over) due to the hiding of the injury.

It’s the second time in recent days that a potential injury-report violation has bubbled to the surface. On Friday, Eagles…

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Author : ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports

Publish date : 2024-11-12 15:00:41

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