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The Athletic Football Show on Tyreek Hill

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Wasp essentially is, you know, kind of a clear out route by Tyreek Hill. You run down maybe 20 yards and then it's sort of a choice route... Tyreek Hill gets there and he sees, hey, I got a hole here. I'm running a corner route. And he runs the corner route and Patrick Mahomes sees him.
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Hill's improvisation on Wasp choice route was key to Super Bowl LIV fourth-quarter comeback.

Peter King describes Tyreek Hill's role in the Wasp play during Super Bowl LIV's decisive fourth-quarter drive. The play was designed as a clear-out route where Hill runs down approximately 20 yards and then executes a choice route, deciding at that point whether to run an out, go, or post. In the actual play, Hill read the coverage, saw an opening, and ran a corner route that Mahomes connected with for a crucial gain that helped lead to the Chiefs' comeback victory.

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