After a drawn-out courtship, the Tennessee Titans are anticipated to authorize All-Pro pass receiver DeAndre Hopkins, CBS Sports NFL Expert Jonathan Jones verified. The two-year agreement will certainly pay him $26 million in 2023 and also 2024, consisting of as high as $15 million throughout the initial period, according to NFL Media.
Hopkins can gain approximately $3 million in rewards each period, with approximately $1 million in incentives readily available based upon his complete variety of functions, obtaining lawns, and also obtaining goals.
SportsLine’s Stephen Oh predicted the influence of the finalizing, and also it substantially increased Tennessee’s possibilities of winning the AFC South and also making the playoffs.
Before7.946.5% 20.9% 31.2% 1.2% 0.4% w/ DeAndre Hopkins8.348.8% 25.8% 37.7% 1.9% 0.7% Difference0.42.4% 4.9% 6.5% 0.7% 0.3%
It’s very easy to see why. Before this finalizing, Tennessee had among the organization’s least-threatening pass-catching corps. The Titans’ anticipated beginning pass receivers were 2022 first-round choice Treylon Burks and also fourth-year previous undrafted freelance Nick Westbrook-Ikhine outside, and also 2022 fifth-rounder Kyle Philips in the port. Currently, Hopkins will likely port in throughout from Burks while Westbrook-Ikhine returns to contributing as a situational deep danger.
Hopkins has actually mainly been an outdoors receiver for most of his occupation, yet it deserves keeping in mind that in 2014 noted among his greatest prices of port use, so it is feasible that the Titans utilize him in this way too. (Placement statistics listed below by means of Pro Football Emphasis.)
2013 Texans52812281.0% 18.7% 2014 Texans39917469.3% 30.2% 2015 Texans62611184.7% 15.0% 2016 Texans57016177.9% 22.0% 2017 Texans5309984.0% 15.7% 2018 Texans58814480.3% 19.7% 2019 Texans45227262.3% 37.5% 2020 Cardinals5956889.6% 10.2% 2021 Cardinals2925185.1% 14.9% 2022 Cardinals28210672.7% 27.3%
As he’s grown older, Hopkins has actually played even more of a duty as a brief- and also medium-depth target instead of real three-level danger he was previously in his occupation. He had an ordinary deepness of target on 12.2 lawns or greater in each of his …
