Tyreek Hill's comeback clock keeps getting pushed back

Training camps are opening around the league this week, and Tyreek Hill still doesn't have a team. Worse, he still doesn't have a working leg. Adam Schefter reported that the free-agent receiver said he has "no power" in the left leg he wrecked last September against the Jets, which is not the update anyone wanted 10 months into recovery.

Hill's knee injury has been a slow-motion disaster since it happened. He dislocated the knee and tore multiple ligaments, including his ACL, in Miami's Sept. 29, 2025 win over New York, went under the knife the next day, and then needed a second procedure on the LCL back in February. The Dolphins cut him that same month, and he's been a free agent ever since, rehabbing in public and hoping some team takes a flier on the speed guy once he's whole again.

The "no power" line isn't just a throwaway phrase — it caught the attention of people who actually diagnose this stuff for a living. David J. Chao, the longtime NFL injury analyst who goes by ProFootballDoc, said the update fits what he's been saying for a while: this looks like it could involve nerve damage, not just a knee that needs more time in the gym.

Hill himself laid out the timeline in his own words, saying he's about 10 months removed from two surgeries and still "trying to regain all the power back" in the leg, one day at a time. That's a receiver whose entire game is built on top-end speed telling the world his leg still doesn't fire right — a genuinely scary sentence for a guy who's made a Hall of Fame case on burst alone.

None of this means Hill's career is over, but it does mean the runway to an NFL return keeps getting shorter while camps fill up around him. Teams are notoriously cautious about nerve-related injuries because they're less predictable than a standard ligament tear — power can come back on its own schedule, or it can stall out entirely. Until Hill shows something on video that looks like burst instead of just a workout grind, this is going to stay a wait-and-see story, and the guys reacting online summed up the vibe well: he could be a long way from getting back on a field.