American sprinter Noah Lyles’s latest war of words comes against Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill. This time, the Olympic gold medalist seemed to take an approach somewhere between petty and savage.

When speaking about Hill, Lyles jokingly asked: “What’s that guy? What’s the cheetah guy from football? I can’t remember his name.”

He then around quizzically and looked at his friend Mark off-camera. “Mark, what’s the football player that thinks he’s fast’s name? Tyreek Hill”

Lyles opened himself up to criticism after the 2023 World Athletics Championships in a now infamous press conference. “World champions of WHAT?” he asked, questioning why NBA players call themselves world champions.

The sprinter’s most recent comments come in response to a recent Hill interview on Up & Adams. “Sprinter Noah Lyles, he said that Super Bowl champs should not consider themselves world champions,” host Kay Adams said to Hill.

“Noah Lyles can’t say nothing after what just happened to him, you know what I’m saying, and then he wants to come out and pretend like he’s sick, I feel like that’s like horseradish,” Hill said, referencing Lyles’s Covid diagnosis during the 2024 Olympic 200m final.

“For him to do to that and say that we’re not world champions of our sports….like come on bro, speak on what you know about, you know what I’m saying, and that’s track.”

Tyreek Hill flashes his signature peace sign whenever he blazes past defenders (Image: Getty Images)

Adams followed up: “Would you like to race him when he gets home?” Hill confidently answered “I would beat Noah Lyles. And when I beat him I’m gonna put on a Covid mask and let him know I mean business because I do mean business.”

Considering he never ran track professionally, Hill had a wonderful track career as a sprinter. He won a bronze medal in the 200m at the 2012 Junior World Championships, and he has personal bests of 9.98 (wind assisted in the 100m) and 20.14 in the 200m.

However, those are both far off Lyles’s best. The six-time World Champion owns personal bests of 9.79 seconds in the 100m and 19.31 in the 200m. the third-fastest of all time.

Hill is always one to talk a big game. In the same interview with Adams, the receiver claimed he’s a better player than Chiefs quarterback and his former teammate Patrick Mahomes.

“My argument is that — you have to look at it like this — Pat is great for his team,” Hill said. “They won two back-to-back Super Bowls, they did their thing.”

“You look at me, two back-to-back 1,700 [yard seasons], Pro Bowl, All-Pro, this consistency, all that man. And I’m doing this at 5’8, about 190 [pounds]. A lot of people said I couldn’t be a receiver and here I am doing this. I’m giving all the short kings out there hope.”