{"id":22567,"date":"2025-02-24T23:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22567"},"modified":"2025-02-24T23:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:16:42","slug":"former-miami-dolphins-star-running-back-has-tragically-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=22567","title":{"rendered":"Former Miami Dolphins Star Running Back Has Tragically Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A former\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/miami-dolphins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami Dolphins<\/a>\u00a0running back has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple reports indicate that Eddie Hill, who played 75\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0games across six seasons, is dead at 67, having taken his final breath this past Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are saddened by the passing of former Dolphins running back Eddie Hill, who played for the team from 1981-84. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ipZv9ag6Ap\">pic.twitter.com\/ipZv9ag6Ap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Miami Dolphins (@MiamiDolphins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiamiDolphins\/status\/1894087519089697027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hill was selected out of Memphis by the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/los-angeles-rams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>\u00a0in the second round of the 1979\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NFL Draft<\/a>\u00a0and played for the team for two years before a trade to the Dolphins. He spent the remaining four years of his career in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>He rushed for 443 yards and two touchdowns on 120 carries for his career.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-former-los-angeles-rams-and-miami-dolphins-running-back-eddie-hill-believed-he-had-cte\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Former Los Angeles Rams And Miami Dolphins Running Back Eddie Hill Believed He Had CTE<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2264142\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_18812412-1-1-1024x563.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_18812412-1-1-150x83.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_18812412-1-1-595x327.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_18812412-1-1-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_18812412-1-1-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_18812412-1-1-1536x845.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/USATSI_18812412-1-1-2048x1126.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"Miami Dolphins helmet\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><em>Miami Dolphins helmet (Photo via Jasen Vinlove\/USA TODAY Sports)<\/p>\n<p>The former back had remitting brain cancer in recent years and also believed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), although he couldn\u2019t confirm it. Still, he didn\u2019t regret playing football.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/em>He spoke to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2017\/05\/10\/ex-dolphins-aware-of-peers-declining-health-but-say-they-dont-typically-discuss-such-ailments-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Floria Sun-Sentinel<\/a>\u00a0in a feature on the poor health of several Miami Dolphins players in 2018, revealing he was in remission from brain cancer and was showing signs of CTE.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cEvery life has a purpose and football was one of those biblical, scriptural things that I learned early in life that applied to me, the gift,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd recently, in the last 10-15 years, I\u2019ve learned that purpose and I live that purpose.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hill had four children: Valencia, Quadtrine, Blaize, and Kyra.<\/p>\n<p>TPS extends condolences to Eddie Hill\u2019s family, friends, and loved ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>R.I.P., Eddie Hill \u2013 1957-2025<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A former\u00a0Miami Dolphins\u00a0running back has passed away. Multiple reports indicate that Eddie Hill, who played 75\u00a0NFL\u00a0games across six seasons, is dead at 67, having taken his final breath &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22569,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22567\/revisions\/22569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}