MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Miami Dolphins announced their captains for the 2025 season on Monday morning, and star wide receiver Tyreek Hill was not among them.

The Dolphins captains were: Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, center Aaron Brewer, fullback Alec Ingold, defensive tackle Zach Sieler, linebacker Jordyn Brooks and edge defender Bradley Chubb.

It’s not a surprise Hill wasn’t named a captain, as voted by Dolphins teammates, after the way he went out in the 2024 season. Hill pulled himself out of the finale against the New York Jets as it became apparent Miami was bound for elimination from playoff contention, and after the game, he had a locker room outburst, telling media he wanted out from the team.

Back with the team for 2025, Tagovailoa started training camp by noting Hill still had a relationship to rebuild with teammates.

“I think it’s more about the guys that we picked and less about the guys we didn’t,” Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel said Monday, “because there are a lot of guys exemplifying tremendous leadership qualities that aren’t a captain of this football team.”

It seems notable, however, that Hill was a captain for the Dolphins each of his first three seasons with Miami since the trade from the Kansas City Chiefs in 2022.

“I don’t think it’s significant,” Brewer said. “Tyreek, he still brings the energy. He’s still a leader on this team, whether he was voted or not. He’s still going to be the same person Tyreek is. He’s going to push guys, drive guys, and people are going to follow behind him.

“He’s still going to have that same influence he had when he was a captain three years ago, same this year.”

Chubb said Hill’s denial of captaincy wasn’t due to any active effort from teammates this year.

“It’s just how the tables turned this year,” Chubb said. “Nobody was saying, ‘Hey, don’t vote ‘Reek this year.’ It’s just how it played out.”

Brooks said Hill, who had been sidelined for much of camp and the preseason with an oblique injury, was scoring touchdowns at the team’s Monday practice.

Tagovailoa is a captain for the fourth consecutive season. Sieler and Ingold are also repeat captains, with Ingold earning the “C” on his jersey for a third straight year.

Brewer and Brooks are captains for the first time after joining the Dolphins in the 2024 offseason. Both had established budding leadership roles dating back to the middle of last season. Chubb is also a new captain after joining Miami midseason in 2022 and once being a captain at his first NFL stop in Denver.

“It’s something that I’m going to go head-first into, honor it every day and do it the best I can to represent that ‘C’,” said Brooks, adding he just has to keep leading how he was at the end of 2024. “Doing too much is never the answer. Just doing my job and doing what I’m supposed to do in my role within this organization. That’s what I’m going to continue to do.”

Brewer made the proclamation Monday that the Dolphins could be the best offensive line in the league after the unit struggled in 2024 but brought in two new guards in James Daniels and rookie Jonah Savaiinaea and has 2024 second-round pick Patrick Paul ready to take over at left tackle for the retired Terron Armstead.

“We got the parts. We got everything we need,” Brewer said. “Why not us?”

For Chubb, it’s significant to be named captain after missing the 2024 season recovering from his knee injury at the end of 2023.

“All last year, I was trying to find my way as a leader who wasn’t on the field,” Chubb said. “Going all the way back to last year and thinking about my mindset around that time and seeing it come to fruition was pretty dope.”

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