{"id":141714,"date":"2023-05-23T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=141714"},"modified":"2023-05-23T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T20:11:38","slug":"deandre-hopkins-trade-destinations-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/05\/23\/deandre-hopkins-trade-destinations-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"All Pro Wide Receiver Gives Preferred Trade Destinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DeAndre Hopkins trade rumors just won\u2019t stop, and that\u2019s largely because the three-time All Pro keeps talking about new NFL homes. Appearing on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/BKLUOp4mDeU?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Am Athlete<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>podcast, Hopkins spoke about the qualities he\u2019s looking for in a new team, as well as a few quarterbacks he\u2019d love to play with.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DeAndre Hopkins was asked on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAMATHLETEpod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@IAMATHLETEpod<\/a> which QBs he&#39;d love to have throwing him the ball. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Bills<\/a> QB Josh Allen was quickly his first answer. <\/p>\n<p>Jalen Hurts, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Justin Herbert rounded out his top-5.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gtepzf9JD4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/gtepzf9JD4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1660703286842802176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>DeAndre Hopkins Describes Ideal Trade Scenarios<\/h2>\n<h3>What Hopkins Wants In A New Team<\/h3>\n<p>According to DeAndre Hopkins himself, the three most important qualities he\u2019s looking for in a trade destination are stable management, a quarterback that loves the game, and a great defense because \u201cdefense wins champions\u201d. As a sidenote, I think it\u2019s safe to assume Hopkins <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/02\/12\/kansas-city-chiefs-win-super-bowl-57-patrick-mahomes\/\" target=\"_self\">did not watch Super Bowl 57<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Right off the bat, it\u2019s easy to see that Arizona has, at most, one of those things. Hopkins defended Kyler Murray\u2019s off-field spirit, saying that the former first-overall pick \u201cis a quarterback who loves the game, but he\u2019s injured\u2026right now I don\u2019t currently have a Pro Bowl quarterback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rest of Arizona\u2019s roster, meanwhile, is pretty terrible. This team is not ready to compete, and it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess is first-year head coach Jonathan Gannon will be able to build a stable culture. With the wide receiver clearly closer to the end of his career than the beginning, nobody could blame him for wanting to spend his final years with a team that could win it all, and DeAndre Hopkins has quite a few trade destinations in mind.<\/p>\n<h3>DeAndre Hopkins Trade: The Ideal Quarterback Pairings<\/h3>\n<p>Based on his response on the podcast, it\u2019s safe to assume that Hopkins has Josh Allen at the top of his quarterback wish list. The wide receiver gushed about the Buffalo Bills quarterback, and the fit makes perfect sense for Buffalo as well. Stefon Diggs is still great, but the rest of the wide receiver depth chart leaves something to be desired. A DeAndre Hopkins trade would turn wide receiver from a position of need to a major strength and wouldn\u2019t put as much pressure on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/03\/06\/dalton-kincaid-2023-nfl-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_self\">rookie tight end Dalton Kincaid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After Allen, Hopkins also mentioned Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, Justin Herbert, and Lamar Jackson as potential matches. All of these guys are among the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/05\/08\/nfl-quarterback-rankings-2023-season\/\" target=\"_self\">best quarterbacks in the NFL<\/a>, but a DeAndre Hopkins trade doesn\u2019t make too much sense for some of these teams.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when the Los Angeles Chargers and Baltimore Ravens would have made sense in a DeAndre Hopkins trade, but that window has passed. Los Angeles already has a reliable trio of wide receivers in Mike Williams, Keenan Allen, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/04\/17\/quentin-johnston-2023-nfl-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_self\">Quentin Johnston<\/a>. It\u2019s hard to see how Hopkins fits in here, especially considering his skill set is a little redundant with Williams and Johnston.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens, meanwhile, already invested <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/04\/09\/odell-beckham-jr-signs-contract-with-baltimore-ravens\/\" target=\"_self\">a lot of guaranteed money in Odell Beckham Jr<\/a> and selected <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/04\/24\/zay-flowers-2023-nfl-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_self\">wide receiver Zay Flowers<\/a> in the first round of the NFL Draft. Baltimore could still use a bigger target like Hopkins, but it\u2019s hard to imagine them investing even more in wide receiver.<\/p>\n<p>The only team that really makes sense is the Kansas City Chiefs. Even with the addition of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2023\/02\/24\/rashee-rice-2023-nfl-draft-profile\/\" target=\"_self\">Rashee Rice<\/a>, this team still has some major questions at wide receiver. This offense will be good as long as Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid are in town, but adding DeAndre Hopkins via trade will provide a much-needed proven commodity at wide receiver. This way, the team won\u2019t have to put too much faith in Kadarius Toney finally staying healthy and playing up to his potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Cardinals All Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins will not stop talking about a trade and listed some potential destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":140359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,10,16,18,21],"tags":[7642,7811,582,7638],"class_list":["post-141714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardinals","category-ravens","category-chiefs","category-chargers","category-eagles","tag-chargers-featured","tag-chiefs-featured","tag-deandre-hopkins","tag-ravens-featured"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}