‘It would be very Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul’ – Noah Lyles hints at possible time and place for Tyreek Hill showdown

Noah Lyles may have found the date for a potential run between him and Tyreek Hill.

The NFL’s 2025 Pro Bowl Games.

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On his podcast, Beyond the RecordsLyles and fellow Olympic gold medalist co-hosts Rai Benjamin and Grant Holloway discussed the details of a potential Lyles-Hill run, with Holloway saying he would also run a star NFL wide receiver, in DK Metcalf.

“Grant, would you drive DK Metcalf?” Lyles asked. “Would you take him in a 40 (yard dash)?”

“Sure,” Holloway promptly replied, looking into the camera to say, “DK, you probably don’t know me, I’m a huge fan. You’re on my fantasy team, so keep doing your thing.

“But hey, let’s do it man. If Noah’s going to do Tyreek… look, I’ll take the undercard with you. I think that would be good.”

Benjamin then suggested where these races could take place.

“I feel like it would be good to do it on All-Star Weekend.”

Lyles let out a very suspicious and sly smile after that.

“I’m already giving too much information,” Lyles said. “The best I can say is that it would be very Mike Tyson-Jake Paul type.”

“It would be cool to do a crossover at the Pro Bowl,” Benjamin suggested. “If you listen to NFL executives, track crossover at Pro Bowl.”

All the while, Lyles had an “I know something you don’t” smile on his face.

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Let the speculation begin.

The 2025 Pro Bowl Games will take place in Orlando, Florida on February 2nd.

A crossover between the men’s 100m Olympic gold medalist versus the NFL’s supposed fastest player would be quite the spectacle.

It would almost certainly draw higher ratings than the actual Pro-Bowl games themselves.

Lyles has previously hinted at running Hill before, stating that he would only run the NFL star wide receiver on his own terms.

“I mean, if somebody wants to sponsor the event and we’re racing for millions of dollars and it’s on a track and we’re running 100 meters, of course we can race,” Lyles told NBC News.

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“But it has to be legal. I’m not here to do gimmicks. You’re racing against a guy who’s worked his whole life to get the title of ‘world’s fastest man’ and you’ve worked to be a great footballer.

“You can’t just jump over the line because you’re a great football player.”

It appears that a Lyles-Hill run is much closer to happening than first thought.

Presenting it as a massive Mike Tyson-Jake Paul event with undercards like Holloway versus Metcalf, Christian Coleman versus Xavier Worthy is a great way to do it.

Whether it is realistic or not is another question.

Whether Lyles and Hill actually agree to race each other is the main question.

There are lots of questions that need to be answered to make this work, but it looks like there are answers we just don’t know about yet.