Tyreek Hill didn’t mince words when discussing Tua Tagovailoa’s dramatic body transformation over the offseason .
Ahead of the Miami Dolphins’ "Thursday Night Football" faceoff against the Buffalo Bills , Hill sat down with teammate Jaylen Waddle and NFL journalist Taylor Rooks to discuss Tagovailoa’s substantial weight loss. Though the quarterback has refrained from divulging the specific number of pounds he lost, reports estimate he shed roughly 10-15 ahead of the season.
"[Tua] looks like he's on a mission. What do you feel like is different about him?" Rooks asked the pair of wide receivers during an Amazon Prime segment. “Diet,” Waddle promptly answered before Hill hilariously interjected: “Ozempic.”
It appears as though Tagovailoa’s top offensive targets aren’t fully on board with his improved physique, either. "He looks slimmer,” Waddle added. “I tell him, ‘I need that chubby Tua back.’"
This isn’t the first time that Hill has jokingly accused Tagovailoa of taking Ozempic. After seeing the signal-caller at OTAs back in June, the 30-year-old said: “I ain’t gonna lie, when I saw Tua at the Pro Bowl, I was kind of scared - dude was fat as ----. He was fat, he was chubby.
“I was like, ‘Hold on, bro. Hold on, bro.’ Ryan Clark said you were kind of thick, he wasn’t lying. But seeing him now and where he’s come from and how skinny he has gotten - what’s that stuff everybody is taking? Ozempic? He had to be taking that, I don’t know.”
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As for how Tagovailoa really shed the weight, he attributed his new look to “Diet and exercise,” along with cutting sugars, per the Palm Beach Post . “I feel better,” the 26-year-old added. “Quicker on my feet. More nimble. I can extend plays more.”
Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel, for one, is more than pleased with what he’s seen from Tagovailoa. “He is really taking his diet serious,” he said of his quarterback. “And he hasn’t done things to lose weight, he’s done things to be in shape.
“I would be pumped about where he’s at now, maybe predisposed to a hair of body shaming from last year if you want to do that retroactively. But to be fair, not many people were going about things that way to be as proactive with something of that nature with jiu-jitsu. He was training jiu-jitsu and calling it something else I think at one point - judo. But he really went after it and then you find out new things.
“Just like every year, we’re trying our best to do the best football plays. We learn more about football plays and defenses and stuff, and we do new plays the next year a little bit. That maturation I think is an example of how he is as a professional, and understanding what his job is to the team and to the franchise. He’s going after it and controlling all of the things that he can control.”
In the Dolphins’ 20-17 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 1, Tagovailoa completed 23-of-37 passes for 338 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions.
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