Randy Moss Lights a Match with Tyreek Hill Comment
Tyreek Hill as an all-time great? Randy Moss says nope.
Randy Moss wasn’t shy this week with his opinion on Tyreek Hill’s legacy, an out-of-nowhere take that felt a little weird in the realm of summer drama.
The Minnesota Vikings legend and Hall of Famer spoke rather candidly about Hill this week when asked about the all-time wide receiving pecking order.
In short, Moss doesn’t believe Hill is quite that caliber of wide receiver.
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Some GOAT business, past and present, circulated this week, courtesy of Moss.
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Moss is back in the spotlight this summer, freshly healed from cancer and on tap to rejoin his commentating role with ESPN.
When asked about Hill as an all-time great, Moss replied, “He’s nowhere all-time. Where is he at in today’s game? Tyreek Hill is probably top five. I put him top five.”
The opinion turned heads because, as far as contemporary wideouts go, most pundits don’t egregiously object to hinting at Hill as an all-time great. His speed and breakaway ability changed the NFL in the last decade — not unlike Moss a quarter century ago.
Is That the Correct Take?
Here’s what likely happened to create Moss’ bold Hill take.
Hill ranks 42nd all-time in receiving yards and 30th in receiving touchdowns. If he retired today — he won’t — those rankings are somewhat puny per Moss’ lofty standards. To climb the leaderboards, Hill must post two or three more productive — call them Hillian — seasons to knock at the Top 10’s door.
Until then, onlookers like Moss examine statsheets and see “42nd” and “30th,” and that’s just nowhere near good enough for all-time conversations, which Moss views as regions reserved for himself, Jerry Rice, Cris Carter, Larry Fitzgerald, and a few others.
Fuel for Tyreek Hill
For Hill’s sake, he can use the Moss remarks as fuel. To the eye test, Hill very much meets the standard of an all-time receiver and has a Super Bowl ring, unlike Moss.
Hill’s production dipped in 2024, but fans will hope that he returns to form in 2025, particularly if Tua Tagovailoa plays a whole season.
On the whole, Hill basically has a few years to make up ground on all-time leaderboards but must continue at a breakneck pace to join Moss and Rice in GOAT chatter.
Moss on Justin Jefferson
Moss, on the other hand, hasn’t been shy recently about showering praise on Justin Jefferson, his franchise’s cornerstone.
“Justin Jefferson is on pace to be arguably the greatest ever and definitely the greatest Viking to ever do it. Big fan of Justin’s. I’ve always been a fan of a complete football player, where you can score from anywhere on the field, and Justin brings that to the table,” Moss said earlier this month.
“At our position, it’s not about the yards. The yards is what gets you the likes and hearts and all of that, but if you really want to be legendary — this is speaking for all wide receivers, not just Justin Jefferson — you gotta find ways to get into that end zone and bring out of the stands up out of their seats.”
Moss might be bogged down in the best kind of territoriality, gassing up his team’s players while shading others, such as Hill..
Moss continued about Jefferson: “For him to go down as the greatest Viking and arguably the greatest wire receiver to ever do it, I need to see more of Justin getting in that box.”
Bleacher Report on Moss’ Comments about Hill
Bleacher Report‘s Scott Polacek wrote about Moss’ summer bombshell, “Opening up the discussion about all-time lists brings in so many other greats such as Moss and Jerry Rice. And Hill is 42nd all-time in receiving yards and 30th all-time in receiving touchdowns at age 31.”
“He has plenty of ground to make up in what figures to be the latter portion of his career if he is going to be in those discussions. But Moss surely is and even said that while Rice is the ‘political answer’ for the best receiver in history, ‘if we’re talking real football, where I knock your ass out, it’s me.'”
Not for nothing, Hill grew up as a fan of the Vikings.
Polacek added, “That type of confidence and self-belief helped Moss dominate opposing secondaries throughout his career. He is second all-time in receiving touchdowns (156) and fourth in receiving yards (15,292) but still looking up at Rice in both categories.”
“It is quite the debate that many football fans have surely had, but Moss believes Hill should not be anywhere near those conversations.”
Hill will turn 32 next offseason.
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