Both Hill and Waddle are listed at 5-foot-10 (well below the average height for an NFL receiver) but haven’t let their size limit them in their careers.
The “Cheetah” has posted at least 1,000 receiving yards in six of his first eight seasons, reached double-digit touchdown catches three times and gone over 100 receptions in three straight years. Hill was at his best in 2023, leading the league with his career-high 1,799 receiving yards and touchdown catches (13), while matching his high mark of 119 receptions from 2022 and finishing as the AP Offensive Player of the Year runner-up.
He’s made the Pro Bowl in all eight of his NFL seasons and has been a first team All-Pro five times, including during his first two years in South Beach.
Even though Waddle hasn’t yet made a Pro Bowl or been named an All-Pro, he’s met the lofty expectations he arrived to the Dolphins with when they selected him sixth overall in 2021.
He became the first player in franchise history last season to record three straight 1,000-yard receiving campaigns. Waddle also holds the team mark for most receiving yards in the first three years of a career.
The Alabama product set Miami rookie records in receptions (104) and receiving yards (1,015) and has registered 251 career catches for 3,385 yards and 18 touchdowns.
Waddle had only missed one contest over his first two seasons in the league before sitting out three games in 2023, first due to a concussion and later because of an ankle injury.
He’s been quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s second-favorite target behind Hill since the latter arrived in Miami and no other player has been close. Waddle finished last year ranked only behind Hill in terms of Dolphins targets (104), receptions (72), receiving yards (1,014) and receiving touchdowns (four).
Waddle was rewarded with a three-year, $84.75M contract extension in late May while Hill agreed to a restructured deal that includes $65M guaranteed.
The latter contract increases the fully guaranteed money on Hill’s contract to $106.5M, which is the largest for a wide receiver in NFL history.
Both speedsters are predicted to have another monster season with the Dolphins in 2024.
