The Houston Texans have reportedly decided to trade star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. But so few Texans games go by where it isn’t readily apparent that Hopkins’s catch radius propels this team forward. Last year, Hopkins caught 104 passes for 1,165 yards and seven touchdowns.
All rights reserved. The DeAndre Hopkins Trade is a Colossal Mistake for the Texans DeAndre Hopkins leaves a gaping hole in the Texans' offense. He extends drives out of thin air. And given the return, it's hard to fathom how this happened.© 2020 ABG-SI LLC. Over the course of his career, he’s caught 632 passes for 8,602 yards and 54 touchdowns. Last year, he rushed for 345 yards on 94 carries and had two touchdowns.
DeAndre Hopkins signed a 5 year, $81,000,000 contract with the Houston Texans, including a $7,500,000 signing bonus, $49,000,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $16,200,000.
In 2020, Hopkins will earn a base salary of $12,500,000, while carrying a cap hit of $12,500,000. Recent history has shown that teams comfortable in their scheme can plug and play a little easier than other franchises, even if they don’t have a first-round pick to wield.Now that we’ve gotten all this out of the way, any Texans players still reading this are free to run for the abyss. There will be some draft picks exchanged, as well.Framework of trade still being finalized, sources tell ESPN:Cardinals get DeAndre Hopkins and a late-round pick.Other picks involved, but Hopkins wanted a new deal that Arizona can provide.Texans insider John McClain had some of the details, too:DeAndre Hopkins and a fourth round pick go to Cards for David Johnson and a second round pick this year and a fourth round pick next year.Hopkins has been one of the best wide receivers in the NFL for several seasons. The Houston Texans reportedly traded away DeAndre Hopkins on Monday in a surprising move, and details are emerging about what caused the deal.. He has the ability to make the perfectly positioned defender irrelevant.But these are things you might miss when this toxic confidence takes the wheel. It’s unclear if the Texans view him as a reclamation project or simply a cog in the offense moving forward, but the initial return for one of the most feared wideouts in the game doesn’t wow anyone at first blush. Unfortunately for O’Brien, that bright future will be in Arizona.DeAndre Hopkins leaves a gaping hole in the Texans' offense. The DeAndre Hopkins trade, which effectively meant that the Texans traded arguably one of the best receivers in the league for a player who struggled for game time in Arizona has left Houston fans scratching their heads.
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ESPN’s Adam Schefter had the first report, saying that Hopkins was shockingly on the move. Still, the Texans don’t have a first round pick in this year’s still-scheduled draft, and so acquiring a higher pick may set them up in a draft class they feel is deep enough to replace Hopkins without having to give him a big contract. Texans are trading DeAndre Hopkins to Arizona, per source.Soon after we learned the return would be Cardinals running back David Johnson, along with some draft picks. All market data delayed 20 minutes. You can swap players. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC. The standout wide receiver has played with Deshaun Watson and now he’ll play with Kyler Murray.ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter first reported news of the trade. Hopkins, 27, has reportedly been traded to the Arizona Cardinals. Cooks will help the Texans replace DeAndre Hopkins, who was shockingly traded to the Arizona Cardinals last month for running back David Johnson … Instead, they flip him to the Cardinals, who get another weapon for a young quarterback in Murray as they rebuild under Kliff Kingsbury. He spent five seasons with Arizona. Framework of trade still being finalized, sources tell ESPN: Cardinals get DeAndre Hopkins and a late-round pick. Texans get David Johnson and a second-round pick. We are naturally blind to some players who make teams better or worse in the little moments we won’t pick up on.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. The Texans have traded DeAndre Hopkins and a late-round draft pick to the Cardinals for David Johnson and a second-round draft pick The Houston Texans traded star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and a 2020 fourth-round draft pick to the Arizona Cardinals for running back David Johnson, a 2020 second-round draft and a … Rumors of a potential deal surfaced on Sunday evening.Texans are trading DeAndre Hopkins to Arizona, per source.The longtime NFL insider reports that the details of the trade are still being worked out, but Cardinals running back David Johnson will be involved.
Texans insider John McClain had some of the details, too: DeAndre Hopkins and a fourth round pick go to Cards for David Johnson and a second round pick this year and a fourth round pick next year.
Rumors about Hopkins’ possible departure from the Texans started earlier in the day.Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray receives a top-flight wide receiver in Hopkins – who somehow manages to catch nearly every ball that is thrown to him.Hopkins spent his first seven seasons with the Texans. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy All market data delayed 20 minutes.Ryan Gaydos is a sports reporter for FoxNews.com and FoxBusiness.com. Just as we could see it clear as day, someone like O’Brien might be able to look past it toward some brighter future somewhere else. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, Johnson, meanwhile, was once one of the most feared backs in the NFL, but a 2017 injury in Week 1 following a breakout 2016 season derailed his career and he’s never returned to the prominence he had four years ago. You can imagine a world where everything is better or just as good without them because this is a confidence business and you don’t rise to the level of all-powerful head coach and general manager without having the fortitude to pick up the phone and ship one of the best players in football westward for a fist full of junk bonds.And yet it’s still hard to fathom how trading Hopkins went through, absent a total blackout. "DeAndre Hopkins goes out and works out every day to prepare myself to get my team the opportunity to win a championship whenever that's possible.