Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill missed practice Friday and Saturday with a wrist injury. He played Monday night. Before the match he made it clear that the wrist is and has been a problem.

Consider this quote from ESPN’s Lisa Salters from Monday night’s pregame show, regarding Hill’s wrist: “He said it’s something he’s been dealing with all season. He said it first started in training camp, but was exacerbated again when he was arrested just before the opening game of the season. He said he was taken to the ground by the police – we remember seeing that video – and he said that’s where the further damage was done. Tyreek told me he had an MRI, and he said the MRI showed he has a torn ligament. That he said he plays through it. . . . And he said he was just quiet about it all season. So I said to him, ‘Don’t you want me to say something about it? Because you just told me all about it.” He said, ‘It’s okay. It’s something I have to deal with.’”

It’s now something the dolphins may also have to deal with. Because even though Hill was bothered by the wrist injury before Week 1, he didn’t appear on the injury report until Week 10 with a wrist injury.

Will the league look into it? Probably not. If so, there will likely be no punishment. In an era of legalized gambling, the NFL seems to be very cautious about admitting to the world that teams are violating injury reports. Once that happens, people who placed bets at sportsbooks that stuff sponsorship dollars into the NFL’s pockets might want refunds. And one of them could file a class action against the NFL and the team that concealed the injury and demand full refunds for all relevant bets (including Hill’s prop bets that failed to hit the skip) for concealing the injury .

This is the second time in recent days that a possible violation of the injury report has surfaced. On Friday, Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said quarterback Jalen Hurts missed practice on Wednesday due to an ankle injury. Sirianni then corrected himself, saying Hurts was resting before claiming he confused his franchise quarterback with someone else.

As long as the league doesn’t do something about it, it will continue to happen. But even if the league doesn’t publicly slam a team like the Dolphins for not disclosing Hill’s wrist injury, there is evidence to support a massive claim against the league and the Dolphins for compensation. The transgression is hidden in plain sight. The smoking gun came from Hill’s mouth, as Salters was told Monday night.

Hill also spoke with NFL Network’s Taylor Bisciotti after the game. And Hill did little to contradict what he had said to Salters.

He said he initially injured the wrist “against the Commanders Week 1and that he “made it a little worse over the year when he tried to cut off my tail.”

Because the Dolphins did not play the Commanders in the regular season (the Dolphins faced Jacksonville in Week 1) and because Hill did not play when the Dolphins faced the Commanders in the preseason, Hill is likely referring to the joint practices with the Commanders. in the days before that match.

In any case – and although he did not mention the altercation with police as a contributing factor to the injury – Hill admitted in his own words that he had a wrist injury that both worsened throughout the season and remained hidden until recently.

The NFL launched the injury report in 1947 as a way to combat illegal gambling. Now that gambling is legal, there is an even greater obligation to push for transparency when it comes to players’ health.

Maybe Hill hid the injury from the Dolphins. Some players will do that and receive treatment and care themselves. If that happened, let’s find out. The league needs to investigate this – and the league needs to share the results.

Even if the end result is a class action against the NFL, the Dolphins and/or Hill, brought by anyone betting on Hill hitting the over on yards, catches and/or touchdowns in one of Miami’s 2024 games.