Tua Tagovailoa, Tyreek Hill put up historic Week 1 numbers to rally Dolphins past Chargers

Tua Tagovailoa, Tyreek Hill and the Miami Dolphins aren't going to lose many track meets.

They didn't on Sunday, as Tagovailoa returned to action, Hill reaffirmed his status as one of league's most dangerous gamebreakers and the two combined for some historic numbers in Miami's 36-34 come-from-behind win over the Los Angeles Chargers.

"It's the National Football League and those are two guys that really worried about the right stuff," Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel said after the game, via team transcript. "That's the ultimate hope as a coach -- all that time invested and those high standards that you're holding yourself to, that that's rewarded. I think, today it definitely was. They were on the same page for sure."

Tagovailoa and Hill were surely on the same page, and it was one a beleaguered Chargers defense read over and over.

Playing for the first time since Week 17 last season due to a concussion, Tagovailoa triumphantly returned to the tune of 466 yards on 28-of-45 passing with three touchdowns and a 110.0 rating. Hill caught a pair of those touchdowns to go with 11 receptions and a mind-spinning 215 yards.

"I was just really excited to be out there again," Tagovailoa said. "I don't think anything else relates to the adrenaline rush that you get when you go out there. You have the fans -- even when you're warming up, you can smell the popcorn. There are just a lot of things that you just can't really emulate. Being able to go out there with the guys, it was awesome."

Awesome was one of an abundance of superlatives that could've been used to describe Hill.

It was Hill's third career game with 200-plus yards and two or more receiving touchdowns -- the most of any player in the Super Bowl era, per NFL Research. It was