Russell Wilson Says Chiefs Should Reunite With Tyreek Hill ASAP
Wilson and Kyle Long floated a Hill-to-K.C. return on 'Set Hut' — the same Hill who hung 1,239 yards on 111 catches in his 2021 Chiefs finale.
A Chiefs reunion is pundit talk for now, not a signing — don't speculate off your bench yet.
- Hill: 111 catches, 1,239 yards, 9 TDs in 2021 with K.C.
- Hill is 32 and rehabbing a reconstructed leg
- Chiefs beat the 3-0 Raiders before their bye
- K.C. faces the Chargers in Week 6
- No actual signing — this is 'Set Hut' speculation
Russell Wilson wants the Kansas City Chiefs to pick up the phone and call Tyreek Hill. On this week's episode of 'Set Hut,' the Super Bowl winner and ex-Chief Kyle Long made the case for a reunion between Hill and the only offense that ever made him a fantasy cheat code — the one where he caught 111 passes for 1,239 yards and nine touchdowns across 17 games in 2021.
To be clear, this is a podcast pitch, not a transaction. There's no reported contact, no workout, no agreement. But the logic Wilson laid out is hard to wave off: pair Hill with the current Chiefs run game — which Long noted they simply didn't have during his tenure — and the field gets impossibly wide for Patrick Mahomes. Wilson said flatly that he'd go after Hill right now if he were Kansas City, and that Chiefs Kingdom would lose its mind over it.
The timing isn't random, either. The Chiefs are nursing wide receiver injuries, won a measuring-stick game against a 3-0 Raiders team, and are now sitting on a bye before they open Week 6 against the Chargers. A healthy, veteran separator would be a tidy fix. The catch — literally — is the 'healthy' part.
The Injury Question
Hill is 32 and coming back from a gruesome leg injury, which is why the room was more cautious than giddy. Long's counter was clever: even if the surgically reconstructed leg robs Hill of his old in-and-out cuts, he can still line up and run straight past a safety, which cracks the middle of the field wide open for everyone else. Long also leaned on the intangible — the 'unspoken communication' he watched Hill and Mahomes build in person in 2021.
The Fantasy Fallout
Here's the honest part: there's nothing to act on yet. This is a hypothetical dressed up as analysis, and we don't carry a projection for a player who isn't on an active fantasy-relevant roster in this role. So don't go stashing a ghost on your bench based on a 'Set Hut' segment.
What you should do is monitor. If this ever moves from podcast chatter to an actual Kansas City workout or signing, a Hill-Mahomes reunion would immediately reshape the Chiefs' target tree and crater the value of whichever K.C. receivers are currently soaking up volume. Until there's real smoke, keep Hill on your watch list and your attention on who's actually catching Mahomes passes this week.
