MIAMI — Tyreek Hill wants all the smoke with Noah Lyles — on the track.

In an interview with “Up & Adams” host Kay Adams, Hill asserted that he would win a race against the Olympic gold medalist.

“I would beat Noah Lyles,” the Miami Dolphins receiver said Monday afternoon. “And guess what: when I beat him, I’ll put on a COVID mask.”

Lyles, who won gold in the 100 meter and bronze in the 200 meters at the Paris Olympics before pulling out of the 400 relay due to COVD-19, made a quite a few enemies last year when he disparaged American sports leagues.

“I have to watch the NBA Finals and they have ‘World Champion’ on their heads,” Lyles said at a 2023 World Athletic Games news conference. “World champion of what? The United States? Don’t get me wrong. I love the U.S. at times. But that ain’t the world.”

“We are the world,” Lyles continued. “We have almost every country out here fighting and thriving and putting on a flag to show that they are represented. There ain’t no flags in the NBA.”

Although Lyles didn’t specifically mention the NFL, Adams asked Hill about the quote in general. The eight-time Pro Bowler essentially told Lyles to, no pun intended, stay in his lane.

“Lyles can’t say nothing after what just happened to him,” Hill said. “Then he wants to come out and pretend like he’s sick. That’s horseradish.”

Hill’s claim that he could beat an Olympic sprinter in a race is nothing new. In early December, Hill stated that he could beat a prime Usain Bolt in a 40-yard dash — though the Jamaican sprinter famously ran a 4.22 in 2019. Hill ran the 40 in 4.29 seconds at the 2016 NFL combine.

“In a 40?” Hill said on an episode of “RGIII and The Ones.” “Yes for sure.”

While there’s no way to predict how Hill would fair against Lyles, it very well might come down to what race that they decide to run. In Paris, Lyles won gold with a 100-meter time of 9.79 seconds, far better than Hill’s personal record of 10.19.

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