Tyreek Hill Height 2026: How Tall Is the Cheetah WR?

Last updated: November 10, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Tyreek Hill is 5 feet 10 inches tall (178 cm). That is the figure on his official NFL listing, and it is the number most profile pages print: Pro Football Archives, Topps Ripped, League Station and Sportradar all give 5’10”, and the metric figure beside it is always 178 cm. Hill — the “Cheetah”, an eight-time Pro Bowl wide receiver, a Super Bowl champion with the Kansas City Chiefs, and the man who led the NFL with 1,799 receiving yards in 2023 — was born on March 1, 1994, which makes him 32 years old in November 2026. His height is one of the most searched facts about him, because on television he looks smaller than he is, and because a receiver built like a running back should not be able to run the way he does.

He is, and the confusion around the number is worth sorting out before anything else. The 5’10” listing is not the only figure in circulation. His pre-draft measurement, recorded by DraftScout in 2016, was 5 feet 8⅛ inches. Hill himself told Haute Living in June 2022 that he is 5 feet 9½ inches and 195 pounds, and that people who meet him are surprised: on TV they think he is 5 feet 5 inches, and in person he looks bigger than they expected. Three numbers, three sources, and each one has a reason behind it. This article gives all three, with their dates and their sources, and explains which one to use.

This article works through the whole picture behind the height: the 5’10” answer and why it is the safe one, the combine measurement and what it actually means, the 4.29-second 40-yard dash that made the height irrelevant, the early life that took him from Lauderhill, Florida, to West Alabama, the Super Bowl years in Kansas City, the $120 million Miami deal and the 1,799-yard season, the knee injury that ended his 2025 season and left him a free agent in November 2026, the net worth — estimated at $40 million to $60 million — and how his height stacks up against Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson and Christian McCaffrey.

Who Is Tyreek Hill?

Tyreek Hill is an American football wide receiver known as the “Cheetah”, a nickname earned the way nicknames usually are in the NFL — because nobody could catch him. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2016 NFL Draft, 165th overall, after a college path that ran through Garden City Community College in Kansas, one season at Oklahoma State, and a final year at West Alabama. In Kansas City he became a Super Bowl champion, an eight-time Pro Bowler and a five-time First-team All-Pro. In March 2022 the Chiefs traded him to the Miami Dolphins for five draft picks, and the Dolphins signed him to a four-year, $120 million extension — at the time the largest contract ever given to a wide receiver.

The career, through the 2024 season, reads like a highlight reel with the numbers to back it: 798 receptions for 11,098 yards and 82 receiving touchdowns, plus return touchdowns and rushing scores from his early years. The signature season was 2023, when he caught 119 passes for 1,799 yards — more than any other receiver in the league — and 13 touchdowns. He did it at 5’10”, in a league where the average wide receiver stands around 6’1″, and he did it by being the fastest man on the field rather than the tallest. The speed is the story of his career, and the height is the detail that makes the speed surprising.

In November 2026 he is a free agent. A dislocated left knee and torn ligaments, suffered on September 29, 2025, against the New York Jets, ended his 2025 season and required two surgeries. The Dolphins released him in February 2026, ending a four-season stay in Miami, and as the 2026 season moves into November he remains unsigned — rehabbing, working with agent Drew Rosenhaus, and linked in reports with a return to Kansas City. The height question follows him through all of it, because it is the first thing a new fan asks about a man who runs a 4.29 forty at 5’10”.

The Answer: 5 Feet 10 Inches (178 cm)

Tyreek Hill is 5 feet 10 inches tall, or 178 cm. That is the answer in full, and it is the figure this article stands behind: the official NFL listing, repeated in pages from 2016 through November 2026 without drifting. Pro Football Archives gives 5-10. Topps Ripped gives 5’10” (178 cm). League Station gives 5’10” in a page updated November 9, 2026. Sportradar lists 178 cm. HeightsBySide gives 1.78 m (5’10”) and names the NFL listing as its source. When the league, the stat archives and the profile sites agree to the centimetre, the number is as settled as a reported athlete height gets.

The conversion is exact, and it is worth stating plainly because some pages round it wrong: 5 feet 10 inches is 70 inches, which is 177.8 cm, rounded to 178 cm. In metres that is 1.78 m. There is no competing metric figure in circulation — nobody lists him at 175 cm or 180 cm — which is itself a sign of how stable the listing is. The disagreement, such as it is, lives entirely in feet and inches, between a barefoot measurement and a team listing.

What the number means in practice is simple: Hill is an inch taller than the average American man, who stands around 5 feet 9 inches according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and about three inches shorter than the average NFL wide receiver. He is not small. He is a compact, powerfully built athlete whose frame carries 185 pounds of muscle, and the camera flattens him: standing next to 6-foot-4 linemen and 6-foot-6 quarterbacks, a 5’10” receiver looks shorter than he is. Hill said exactly that to Haute Living in 2022 — people expect him to be 5’5″ from watching him on television, and they are surprised when they meet him.

Why the Sources Disagree: Three Numbers for One Man

Three numbers attach to Hill’s height, and each one comes from a different kind of source. The 5’10” figure is the team listing — the number the Chiefs and then the Dolphins printed on the roster, and the number the NFL’s stat partners carry. Team listings are rounded, and they are taken in cleats. Nobody in the league is listed barefoot. The 5’8⅛” figure is the pre-draft measurement — DraftScout’s 2016 profile records it as 5081, taken at his pro-day workout, barefoot, by scouts. The 5’9½” figure is Hill’s own estimate, given to Haute Living in June 2022, in his own words, with his own weight beside it: 195 pounds, ten pounds heavier than the listing.

There is a second, subtler reason the numbers wobble: Hill has leaned into the joke himself. In that same Haute Living interview he said people think he looks like Kevin Hart’s height on television, and that he has to tell them he is bigger than he looks. The line travels — it is quoted in profiles, repeated in comment sections, and clipped on social media — and each retelling shaves a little off the number. A reader who finds a page listing him at 5’9″ or 5’8″ is usually looking at a page that rounded the combine figure, or quoted the joke instead of the listing.

The way to settle it is the way this article settled it: count the sources and weigh the kinds. The listing says 5’10”. The measurement says 5’8⅛”. Hill says 5’9½”. No mainstream outlet, no tracker and no interview gives a fourth number. The 5’10” figure is the answer to the search question; the 5’8⅛” figure is the measurement behind it; and the 5’9½” figure is the man himself, splitting the difference. This article names all three so a reader who finds any of them knows what it is.

The Combine Measurement: 5’8⅛” and 4.29 Seconds

Hill was not invited to the 2016 NFL Combine. The invitation never came, because of the domestic violence case that ended his Oklahoma State career — he pleaded guilty in August 2015 to domestic assault and battery by strangulation, received three years of probation, and finished his college career at West Alabama, a Division II school. The scouts came to him instead, at West Alabama’s pro day in March 2016, and the numbers they recorded are still the numbers that define him: 5 feet 8⅛ inches, 185 pounds, and a 40-yard dash of 4.29 seconds.

The 4.29 is the number that matters. It was one of the fastest times recorded by any draft prospect that year, and it is the reason a fifth-round pick from a Division II school became a first-team All-Pro. The height measurement was a footnote to it — scouts noted the 5’8⅛” and moved on, because a receiver who runs 4.29 does not need to be tall. He needs to be open, and Hill was open on almost every play he ran. The vertical jump was 40½ inches, the broad jump 11 feet 2 inches, and the 20-yard shuttle 4.06 seconds — numbers that describe an athlete built for explosion rather than size.

DraftScout’s profile still carries the full line: height 5081, weight 185, 40 low 4.25, 40 time 4.29, 40 high 4.38. The range on the 40 — 4.25 to 4.38 across the stopwatches — is the honest version of the story: hand-timed pro-day forties vary, and 4.29 is the consensus rather than a laser-measured fact. The height, though, was measured with a stadiometer, and it is the one figure in the profile that is not an estimate. Hill is 5’8⅛” barefoot. He is listed at 5’10”. The two inches between them are the shoes, the rounding, and the league’s habit of printing the taller number.

Height in Context: Shorter Than Most Receivers, Faster Than All of Them

At 5’10”, Hill is shorter than most of the receivers he lines up against, and the comparison is the reason the number lands the way it does on television. The average NFL wide receiver stands around 6’1″, and the league’s best deep threats are usually taller: the position rewards height at the catch point, where a taller receiver wins jump balls that a shorter one cannot reach. Hill wins a different way. He wins before the ball arrives, by being three steps past the defender when the throw is released, and the height never enters into it.

Against the general population the gap runs the other way. The average American man stands around 5 feet 9 inches, per the National Center for Health Statistics, which puts Hill an inch above average — in roughly the top 40% of adult male height in the United States. He is not short. He is a compact, powerfully built athlete, and the 185 pounds on a 5’10” frame is what gives him the balance to stop, cut and accelerate in a way taller receivers cannot. The low centre of gravity is part of the speed: a 6’4″ receiver needs longer to change direction, and Hill changes direction in a single step.

The weight is the other half of the build. The listing says 185 lbs (84 kg), and Hill said 195 lbs in 2022 — ten pounds heavier, and the difference is visible in the photographs from the two periods. The 2023 season, his best, was played at the heavier weight, and the extra muscle showed in the way he broke tackles: 1,799 yards does not come from speed alone, and a receiver who runs through arm tackles at 5’10” is a receiver whose frame is doing work the height cannot explain. The build is the point. The height is the detail people argue about, and the build is the reason it does not matter.

Early Life: Lauderhill to West Alabama

Tyreek Hill was born on March 1, 1994, in Lauderhill, Florida, and raised by his grandmother in Douglas, Georgia, where he attended Coffee High School. He was a track star before he was a football star: at Coffee he ran the 100 metres in 10.19 seconds, a time that would have been competitive at the college level, and he won state titles in the 100 and the 200. The speed was there before the football was, and it is the thread that runs through every chapter of his career — the track times, the 4.29 forty, the kick returns, the deep routes.

After high school he went to Garden City Community College in Kansas, where he played two seasons and kept the track career going alongside the football. In 2014 he transferred to Oklahoma State, and the season that followed ended his time there: in December 2014 he was arrested and later pleaded guilty to domestic assault and battery by strangulation, an offence involving his then-pregnant girlfriend. He received three years of probation. Oklahoma State dismissed him from the team. This article reports the case because it is part of the public record and because it shaped everything that followed — the lost combine invitation, the fifth-round draft slot, the Division II finish at West Alabama, where he played one season in 2015 and rebuilt his draft stock from nothing.

West Alabama was the reset. In 2015 he caught 27 passes for 444 yards and three touchdowns, ran for 237 yards, and returned kicks — the all-purpose role that would define his early NFL years. The scouts who came to his pro day in March 2016 were not there for the stats. They were there for the 40, and the 4.29 they timed was enough for the Chiefs to spend a fifth-round pick, 165th overall, on a player no other team was willing to touch in the early rounds. The height measurement from that day — 5’8⅛” — was recorded and filed. The speed was what got him drafted.

Kansas City: The Super Bowl Years (2016–2021)

Hill’s rookie season, 2016, was the announcement: 61 catches for 593 yards and six touchdowns, plus three return touchdowns and a rushing score, and a First-team All-Pro selection as a returner. He was 22 years old, a fifth-round pick from a Division II school, and he was already the most dangerous player on the field whenever the ball was in his hands. The Chiefs used him everywhere — receiver, returner, rusher — and the defence had to account for him on every snap, which is the rarest compliment a young player can earn.

The peak came in the 2019 season, which ended on February 2, 2020, in Super Bowl LIV against the San Francisco 49ers. The Chiefs trailed 20-10 in the fourth quarter, and the play that turned the game was a third-and-15 from their own 35-yard line: quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw deep to Hill, who caught it for 44 yards. The drive ended in a touchdown, the Chiefs won 31-20, and Hill finished with nine catches for 105 yards — the biggest game of his career on the biggest stage. He was 25 years old, a Super Bowl champion, and the fastest receiver in the league.

He spent six seasons in Kansas City, and the totals are the record of a player who grew from a gadget weapon into a number-one receiver: 479 receptions for 6,630 yards and 56 touchdowns, six Pro Bowl selections, three First-team All-Pro honours. The 2020 season was his best in red and gold — 87 catches, 1,276 yards, 15 touchdowns — and the 2021 season, his last with the Chiefs, brought 111 catches for 1,239 yards. By then the contract was the problem: Hill wanted to be paid as the best receiver in football, and the Chiefs, with Mahomes’ contract on the books, chose to trade him rather than pay him. On March 23, 2022, he was a Dolphin.

Miami: The 0 Million Deal and the 1,799-Yard Season

The trade cost Miami five draft picks, and the contract that followed was the largest ever given to a wide receiver: four years, $120 million, with $72.2 million guaranteed. The number was the story of the move — a receiver who had been drafted in the fifth round for almost nothing was now the highest-paid player at his position — and the production that followed justified it. In 2022, his first season in Miami, Hill caught 119 passes for 1,710 yards and seven touchdowns, and was named a First-team All-Pro for the fourth time.

The 2023 season was the best of his career. He caught 119 passes again, for 1,799 yards — more than any other receiver in the NFL — and 13 touchdowns, and he did it while openly chasing the 2,000-yard mark, a figure no receiver has ever reached in a single season. He finished 201 yards short, and the near-miss is part of the legend now: the fastest receiver in the league, at 5’10”, came closer to 2,000 yards than anyone in history. The season earned him his fifth First-team All-Pro selection and his eighth Pro Bowl nod, and it is the season that defines his Miami years.

The 2024 season was the comedown: 81 catches for 959 yards and six touchdowns, the first season since 2019 in which he failed to reach 1,000 yards, and the Dolphins missed the playoffs. Off the field, the year opened with his detention by Miami-Dade police outside Hard Rock Stadium on September 8, 2024, before the season opener against Jacksonville — bodycam footage was released, one officer was placed on administrative leave, and the incident became a national story. On the field, the production dipped, the injuries mounted, and the 2025 season would end it all in September.

The Knee Injury and the 2026 Free Agency

Hill’s career changed on September 29, 2025, during Monday Night Football against the New York Jets. He went down with a left knee injury, and the diagnosis was as bad as it looked: a dislocated knee, a torn anterior cruciate ligament, and multiple torn ligaments. The season was over in Week 4. He underwent surgery the next day, and then a second surgery during the offseason, and the recovery stretched through the whole of 2026. His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said in August that he did not expect Hill to sign with a team before the regular season began, and that the recovery had to come first.

The Dolphins made their decision in February 2026: they released him, ending a four-season tenure, rather than carry a $51 million cap hit for a 32-year-old receiver coming off a catastrophic knee injury. The release left Miami with $28.2 million in dead money in 2026 — the second-biggest cap hit on the roster — and left Hill a free agent for the first time in his career. The interest, according to Rosenhaus, has been real: he told reporters in October that he remained in contact with several organisations, and that a deal could happen at any time. The Chiefs, the team that drafted him, have been the name in every report.

As of November 10, 2026, no deal has been signed. Hill travelled to Germany in early November for treatment with Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, the specialist whose rehab work is a regular stop for athletes with serious knee injuries, and he has documented the rehab on Snapchat. The trade deadline falls on Tuesday, November 10 — today — and the reports from Kansas City say Hill would not be ready to pass a physical until early to mid-November. The comeback, if it comes, will come after the deadline, as a free-agent signing rather than a trade. The height is settled. The future is not.

Net Worth 2026: Million to Million

Tyreek Hill’s net worth is estimated at $40 million to $60 million in 2026. That is the range the published estimates support, and it is wide because the outlets are valuing the same career with different models. NetWorthCraft anchors the top of the range at $60 million — for the full breakdown of how the figure is built, see Tyreek Hill’s net worth on NetWorthCraft, which covers the same estimates from a different angle. Celebrity Net Worth lists $40 million, the bottom of the range. The truth sits between them, and the range is the honest answer: the career earnings are public, the spending is not, and no outlet has seen a balance sheet.

The earnings are the solid part. The Dolphins contract paid $120 million over four years, with $72.2 million guaranteed, and the Chiefs years added a rookie deal and two extensions on top of it. The career earnings total sits above $100 million, and the endorsement income — Adidas, EA Sports, and the deals that follow a receiver with his profile — adds to it. The costs are the part nobody can see: the taxes, the agents’ fees, the lifestyle, and the legal bills from a career that has carried more than its share of them. A $40 million to $60 million estimate is the range that survives all of that, and it is the range this article stands behind.

He has never disclosed his earnings, and no outlet has reported a verified figure. What is verifiable is the contract history, and the contract history is the story: a fifth-round pick who was paid almost nothing for his first four seasons, then became the highest-paid receiver in football, then watched the money stop when the knee gave out. The fortune was built in a decade, and the 2026 free agency is the chapter that decides how much bigger it gets.

Personal Life: Family, Marriage and the 2026 Court Case

Hill married Keeta Vaccaro in November 2023, in a ceremony held during the Dolphins’ bye week. The marriage ended in divorce proceedings in 2025, and the split has played out in public since then — in court filings, in social media posts, and in a civil case that reached a verdict in October 2026. On October 13, 2026, a Miami civil jury found Hill liable for two battery claims involving Vaccaro and awarded $500,000 in compensatory damages. The verdict was reported by Rotoballer on October 15, 2026, and it is the newest fact in a personal record that has carried legal trouble since the 2014 case at Oklahoma State.

This article reports the verdict because it is a matter of public record and because it bears on the football question at the centre of the 2026 season: a player returning from injury also faces possible scrutiny under the NFL’s personal conduct policy, and the reports from November 2026 name that as a second obstacle to a signing, beside the knee. The reporting here is neutral — the jury’s finding, the damages figure, and the date — and the article does not relitigate the case or the marriage. Hill has children, including a son born in 2024, and he has kept the details of his family life largely private beyond what the court record shows.

Off the field, Hill is a father, a track athlete who never quite left the sport — he has raced in exhibition sprints and talked openly about wanting to run against Olympic sprinters — and a businessman whose brand is built on the Cheetah nickname. The speed is the product, and the nickname is the logo. At 32, with a knee that has been rebuilt twice and a free agency that has stretched into November, the next chapter is unwritten, and the personal record is part of why teams are taking their time.

How Tyreek Hill Compares: Mahomes, Allen, Herbert, Lamar and McCaffrey

Hill’s 5’10” puts him at the short end of the NFL’s star group, and the table below shows why the number stands out. The quarterbacks he has played with and against are all taller: Patrick Mahomes, his quarterback in Kansas City, is listed at 6 feet 2 inches — four inches taller. Josh Allen, the Bills quarterback, is listed at 6 feet 5 inches — seven inches taller. Justin Herbert, the Chargers quarterback, is listed at 6 feet 6 inches — eight inches taller. Lamar Jackson, the Ravens quarterback, is listed at 6 feet 2 inches. The only peer close to Hill’s height is Christian McCaffrey, the 49ers running back, listed at 5 feet 11 inches — one inch taller, and a player whose game, like Hill’s, is built on speed and cutting rather than size.

* Jackson did not run the 40 at the NFL Combine; 4.34 seconds is the widely reported pro-day figure. The table is also the argument for why the height question gets asked so much. Hill is the shortest of the group and the fastest of it, by a distance — and the combination of 5’10” and 4.29 speed is what the camera shows, and what the defence reacts to. A quarterback at 6’6″ throws over the line. A receiver at 5’10” runs under the coverage. The height is not the career. It is the first thing a new fan notices about it.

Tyreek Hill: Height and Career Timeline

Thirty-two years old, 5 feet 10 inches, ten seasons into a career that took him from a fifth-round pick out of a Division II school to a Super Bowl ring, a $120 million contract and the receiving title, and now into a free agency that will decide whether there is a next chapter. The timeline is the biography in miniature: a fast start, a faster rise, and a height that has been listed the same way since the beginning. The next chapter is the one that decides how the career ends — and the height, at least, is already settled.

Tyreek Hill Height — Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Reporting

This article was reported on November 10, 2026, from live sources checked the same day. The height of 5 feet 10 inches (178 cm) is sourced to Pro Football Archives, Topps Ripped, League Station (page updated November 9, 2026), Sportradar and HeightsBySide; the 5 ft 8⅛ in combine measurement is sourced to DraftScout’s 2016 pre-draft profile; Hill’s own 5 ft 9½ in figure and 195 lbs weight are sourced to Haute Living (June 2022). The career facts — draft position, Super Bowl LIV, the March 2022 trade for five draft picks, the four-year $120 million extension with $72.2 million guaranteed, and the 2023 season of 119 catches for 1,799 yards — are sourced to Pro Football Archives, League Station and the contemporary reporting of the trade and the contract. The 2026 freshness — the September 29, 2025 knee injury, two surgeries, the February 2026 release, the $51 million cap hit and $28.2 million in dead money, the Germany rehab treatment with Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, and the Chiefs reunion reports — is sourced to Heavy (November 3, 6 and 7, 2026), Bolavip (November 1, 2026), Rotoballer (October 15, 2026) and TMSPN (November 2026). The October 13, 2026 civil jury verdict ($500,000 in compensatory damages) is sourced to Rotoballer (October 15, 2026). The net-worth range of $40 million to $60 million is sourced to NetWorthCraft ($60 million anchor) and Celebrity Net Worth ($40 million). The peer heights are sourced to Guide Net Worth’s own profiles of Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson and Christian McCaffrey. Where sources disagreed — on the height, the weight, and the net worth — this article gives the range and names the outlet behind each number rather than picking one. Figures that no outlet has confirmed are labeled as reported or estimated. Corrections: see our corrections policy on the About Us page; if a figure in this article changes, it will be updated with a dated note.