Midway through the 2021 season, Tyreek Hill realized that he wouldn’t be long for Kansas City, the city where he became a world champion and one of the NFL’s brightest stars. A lack of targets, Hill said, was one of the main things that fueled his desire to leave town after six highly-productive seasons. Hill was ultimately traded to Miami, where he has gotten the lion’s share of the targets inside Mike McDaniel’s offense. Hill, who has been targeted 139 times through 13 games, is 11 catches shy from matching last year’s career-high of 111 grabs during his final year in Kansas City.

“[There’d] be some games where I’d get two targets, I’d get three targets. We’d go into meetings and my coach would be like, ‘We’ve got to get you involved, we’ve got to get you involved,'” Hill said on Club Shay Shay with Shannon Sharpe (h/t Pro Football Talk). “So I’m calling my agent, every week after they say some crazy stuff like that like, ‘Bro, I’ve got to get out of here.'” Despite his frustration over his lack of targets, Hill said he expressed his desire with stay with coach Andy Reid if he and the Chiefs could agree on a contract. While the two sides saw eye-to-eye on Hill’s potential annual salary, Hill was unimpressed with the amount of guaranteed money the Chiefs offered.

Conversely, the Dolphins offered a contract Hill said he simply couldn’t turn down. Miami’s four-year contract extension included $72 million guaranteed.