The Kansas City Chiefs could be in desperate need of pass-catchers for Patrick Mahomes next season and a familiar name has appeared on the list.

Tight end Travis Kelce is considering retirement, while wide receiver Rashee Rice is potentially facing more off-field legal issues after allegations of domestic abuse from Rice’s longterm girlfriend surfaced on social media Wednesday.

As such, a reunion with injured Miami Dolphins wideout Tyreek Hill might look better and more palatable to Kansas City’s front office than it would have otherwise.

Hill indicated potential interest in such a development on his end via a social media message on Thursday, January 9.

A fan sent Hill a message that read: “I miss you at KC Reek.”

“That’s so sweet of you this morning,” Hill replied on his Snapchat story. “We’ll see what happens in the offseason, baby.”

GettyMiami Dolphins medical trainers cart wide receiver Tyreek Hill off the field with a knee injury in September 2025.

Hill dislocated his knee and tore his ACL in Week 4 of the season against the New York Jets on September 29. And whether Hill ends up back in Kansas City or not, that outing likely represented his last snaps in a Dolphins uniform.

Hill, who will play next year at age 32, has one year remaining on his $90 million contract that carries a salary cap hit of nearly $52 million.

Miami can save $36 million against the cap by cutting Hill with a post-June 1 designation, which means a restructure or departure is a near certainty given his recent catastrophic injury and a downward production trajectory spanning the past two seasons.

Hill recorded 81 receptions for 959 yards and six TDs across 17 games played in 2024 after leading the NFL with 1,799 receiving yards and 13 scores the year prior.

An eight-time Pro Bowler and five-time All-Pro (some as a kick returner early in his career and then as a receiver as he progressed), Hill’s elite days may be behind him. However, his chemistry with Mahomes was undeniable and the two captured a Super Bowl ring together following the 2019 regular season.

GettyMiami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

Miami hired former Green Bay Packers Vice President of Player Personnel Jon-Eric Sullivan as their new general manager on Friday after announcing the dismissal of former head coach Mike McDaniel earlier in the week.

McDaniel benched $212 million starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa late last season, indicating that his time with the Dolphins might also be through. Hill and Tagovailoa have had an up-and-down relationship in Miami, and it’s unclear whether Hill is more likely to desire a return to the Dolphins in 2026 if Tagovailoa is in Miami or if he’s playing elsewhere.

Aaron Schatz of ESPN predicted on Thursday that the Dolphins will cut Hill this offseason, which would put him into free agency and the likely target of teams looking to take a swing at a wideout with big potential upside on a relatively inexpensive, one-year prove-it deal. The Chiefs, currently staring down the barrel of a $58.3 million cap deficit next season, fit the bill.

“The Dolphins will cut Hill,” Schatz wrote. “Cutting Hill … is a much easier decision than figuring out what to do with Tagovailoa’s huge contract. Cutting the quarterback would actually cost the Dolphins cap space.”