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Without this mentor, Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill wonders if he might have been ‘another lost piece’

Making for a certain mystique about him, much of the origins of human blur Tyreek Hill remains as elusive as he is on a football field.

We know he grew up in rural southern Georgia with his “amazing” maternal grandparents after being born to athletic teenage parents, an adolescence he speaks of fondly but sparingly. And we know the grandparents, Virginia and Herman Hill, have been disinclined to be interviewed about him since the Chiefs drafted Hill in 2016.

But if you want to shade in some of how he became among the fastest and most electrifying players in the NFL, if you want to understand how he got here from there, you could learn a lot by asking him about Jerry Hill — to whom he is not related but is still forever tethered.