Tyreek Hill: Chiefs Cheetah

Over the weekend I was surfing through the KC Chiefs website and I stumbled upon a video report from B.J. Kissel, Quantifying Tyreek Hill’s Dynamic Ability, and didn’t realize how high his average yards per touchdown was in 2016. I remember a few that were long, mainly because they were on a return and against division rivals, but thought most were around the 20-25 yard mark. If you haven’t watched the video it is fun to see all of his TD’s, as they all seemed to be big time scores, even the short yardage ones.

Tyreek Hill 2016 Touchdown Stats

As you can see in the table, Hill is a touchdown threat from pretty much any distance or position. An average of 44.2 yards per touchdown overall, but his rushing and returning averages were even higher.

The next 3 players weren’t even close. Antonio Brown, 20.5 on 12 TDs, Ezekiel Elliott, 18.3 on 16 TDs, and Mike Evans, 16.9 on 12 TDs. The most recent player to have a higher average yards per touchdown was DeSean Jackson in 2009, with 12 touchdowns at a rate of 52.8 yards per TD.

The word around Chiefs Kingdom is that Hill will not be utilized in the return game. While this may seem like we are giving up a great weapon (and we are somewhat), it isn’t like that is where he got all of his yardage. Taking a look at just the 9 rushing and receiving touchdowns, he still averaged 30.1 yards per touchdown.

One other thing special in Hill’s play from last year, as you can see in the graphic above, is he is the first player since 1965 to score a touchdown receiving, rushing, and kick return in a single game. Perhaps making it even sweeter is doing it versus the Denver Broncos and making Von Miller whiff one of them.

During the year, Hill had two other return touchdowns (105 yds vs. Houston and 78 yds vs. Pittsburgh) called back for penalties. In watching them again, you can see why the penalty was called, but I don’t think they would have necessarily have made a difference. If those weren’t called, his average would have jumped to 50.9 yards per touchdown.

Tyreek “Cheetah” Hill

Hill was tracked at a speed of 23.34 MPH during one of his returns. Although he didn’t participate in the NFL Combine, he did run a 4.24 40 yd dash at his Pro Day. To put this in perspective, that would be the combine record, by Chris Johnson in 2008. If we extrapolate his max speed to a 40 time, it would be 3.51. I know he didn’t maintain that for the full return, but it does show what he can hit when he accelerates.

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2016 Hill Production

In 2016 Hill scored 72 points on his 12 touchdowns, which represents 19% of the overall points scored by the team and 29% of just the touchdowns. He also gained 1,836 yards during the year, which represented 26% of those gained by the team.  Let’s hope he keeps the production up in 2017.

Here is a link to his Top 10 Plays of 2016, where he gained a number of these yards. Pay attention to the way he cuts and makes many high quality NFL players look like they belong in Pop Warner ball. 

Let’s hope that the only one seeing Hill on the field from the front is the end zone photographer.

What do you guys think? Did you realize Hill was racking up yards at that rate on his touchdowns?

Until next week, there’s The Rub!

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