Wide receiver Tyreek Hill dropped a bomb in the Miami Dolphins’ locker room after the final game of the season, and that has left the former West Alabama star dealing with the offseason fallout.

Hill said he was “out” at the end of the season, and in explaining later that was caused by his frustration over the Dolphins’ season, he said the NFL team needed to add “dogs” to turn around in 2025.

Since then, Hill has been reaffirming his allegiance to Miami and faith in the Dolphins, including quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

“Tua, he’s my guy,” Hill said during a Super Bowl Week appearance on FanDuel TV’s “Up and Adams.” “He always will be my guy no matter what, man. And I’m sure, like, he understands my frustration. Like, we all want to win. Tua, he’s another competitor. He’s a hell of a competitor. A lot of people don’t know that he’s a winner. He’s consistent, so I’m looking forward to just us continuing to build our relationship, man, even more. …

“And this is my public apology. This is my public apology to you, Tua. I love you, bro.”

Tagovailoa missed six games during the 2024 season. The former Alabama All-American sat out the third through sixth games because of a concussion before a hip injury kept him sidelined for the final two games.

Tagovailoa led the NFL in passing yards and Hill led the league in receiving yards in 2023. But with Tagovailova’s injuries, Hill dropped from 1,799 receiving yards in 2023 to 959 in 2024, and the wide receiver failed to receive Pro Bowl recognition for the first time in his nine NFL seasons.

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Hill’s need for fence-mending began after Miami lost to the New York Jets 32-20 on Jan. 5 to finish the season with an 8-9 record.

“This is my first time I haven’t been in the playoffs, man,” Hill told reporters in the locker room. “I mean for me, like I said, I just got to do what’s best for me and my family, dog. If that’s here, if that’s wherever the case may be, man, I’m fixing to open that door for myself, dog. I’m opening the door. Like, I’m out, bro. It was great playing here, but …”

Then speaking to viewers while streaming a video game, Hill said: “What y’all had heard at the end of the season was frustration. I’ve been winning my whole life, bro. Y’all don’t understand. I bust my ass every day. I deserve to feel like that. I deserve to have some kind of opinion. Y’all just want me to say, ‘Oh well, get them next year.’ Nah, (expletive) that. We’ve got to come back. We got to put some pressure on (expletive). Y’all got to fix this (expletive). Come on. Add some (expletive) dogs in this (expletive). I compete. I love to compete, bro.”

Like Hill, Terron Armstead was a Dolphins’ captain and a perennial Pro Bowler who didn’t get the honor in 2024. Appearing on FOX Sports Radio’s “The Doug Gottlieb Show,” Armstead said Hill knew better than to say those things.

“After the last game, he said some things that have to be mended,” Armstead said. “He has some work to do to really, like, show and prove to the guys and to the organization that he’s all in. I know he is. I know him personally. I was with him right after he said those things. And I’m not excusing him for anything he said. Tyreek Hill is uber-competitive, and all he knows is winning. All he desires, as well. So the frustrations that we felt, that the fan base felt of an up-and-down season – we’re starting the season off feeling like we’re a Super Bowl contender to not making the playoffs, that’s a lot. So those frustrations for him, he vocalized.

“But as a leader and a captain of the team, you can’t, like, you cannot, you cannot be impulsive and just go off the rails.”

Armstead wasn’t the only person who told Hill he had stepped over the line.

“Having some conversations with my mom because my mom is still, like, very, you know, in my life very heavy,” Hill said. “Virginia Hill, by the way. She called me. She was like, ‘Baby boy, like, we don’t handle our situations like that.’ And, like, in that moment I’m like, ‘Like, chill. Like, leave me alone. Like, I need you to be on my side. Like, I need you here for me.’ …

“It gave me some time to think about it. Like, yes, I could have handled the situation better by saying — like, instead of saying, ‘I’m out,’ I could have obviously handled it better, and I wish I did. But in the heat of the moment, I just said whatever I had to say, and I’m taking full accountability of that because I want to win. We want to win, and I’m sure the fans want to win. But a lot of things, I feel like, a lot of things need to be said sometime, man, so it’s tough right now. But I want to come back.”

Hill has two seasons remaining on a three-year, $90 million contract with the Dolphins.

“I don’t want to go nowhere,” Hill said. “I love it. My family loves it. Kids absolutely love being on the beach every morning, so it’s an amazing thing, man.

“We are really building something special in Miami. We made it to the playoffs the first two years. Obviously, this year was hard, but if guys continue to buy in to what coach is building and the culture that, like, he’s trying to build, it’s going to be a beautiful thing, man.”

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.