DeAndre Hopkins

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DeAndre Hopkins
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DeAndre Hopkins 2014
Arizona Cardinals - No. 10
Wide receiver
Date of birth: June 6, 1992
Place of birth: Central , South Carolina
Height: 1.85 m Weight: 97 kg
NFL debut
2013 for the Houston Texans
Career
College : Clemson
NFL Draft : 2013 / Round: 1 / Pick: 27
 Teams:
Current status: active
Career highlights and awards
Selected NFL stats
as of week 17 of the 2019 season
Pass catches     632
Yards     8,602
average     13.6 yards / pass
Touchdowns     54
Statistics at NFL.com
Statistics at pro-football-reference.com

DeAndre Hopkins (* 6. June 1992 in Central , South Carolina ) is an American American football poker players on the position of wide receiver . He played college football for Clemson University . In 2013 he was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Houston Texans and was active for them in the National Football League (NFL) until 2019 . From 2020 he will play for the Arizona Cardinals .

Early years

Hopkins attended DW Daniel High School in the small town of Central, South Carolina, and remained attached to his home state in college . He played from 2010 to 2012 at the Clemson University , near Greenville , college football for the Clemson Tigers . Hopkins, quarterback Tajh Boyd and WR Sammy Watkins made up one of the best offensives in college football and broke several records. After his junior season, Hopkins left Clemson for the NFL, as a record holder in captured yards (3,020) and captured touchdowns (27), and thus gave up another possible year at college.

NFL

He was selected in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft as the 27th player by the Houston Texans , who were looking for a second good receiver at the side of Andre Johnson . His salary was 7.6 million US dollars for four years. In his rookie season, he caught passes for 802 yards and two touchdowns . In his second season he managed to gain more than 1,000 yards of space by catching passes (1,210). Johnson joined the Indianapolis Colts ahead of the 2015 season , making Hopkins the Texans' premier WR.

The 2015 season was the most successful for Hopkins to date. For the 31:20 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in week 6, he contributed 10 pass catches for 148 yards and two touchdowns and was then voted AFC Offensive Player of the Week. At the same time he became the first player in the history of the NFL to get at least 9 pass catches and 145 yards of space gain in three consecutive games, also this was the fourth game in a row with more than 100 yards of space gain, which was the end of the Texans franchise -Records meant. Hopkins broke another franchise record in Week 12 against the Buffalo Bills when he hit his 10th touchdown of the season. At the end of the season, there were 111 passes, 1,521 yards of space gained and 11 touchdowns, all with four different quarterbacks ( Brian Hoyer , Ryan Mallett , TJ Yates and Brandon Weeden ).

Despite a weaker 2016 season - his weakest ever - in which Hopkins did not really develop under the inconsistent performance of quarterback Brock Osweiler , he signed a new five-year contract for 81 million US dollars on August 31, 2017, including 49 Millions guaranteed with a $ 7.5 million signature bonus. The high guarantee even exceeded that of his famous wide receiver colleagues Julio Jones and Demaryius Thomas . Under the new quarterback Deshaun Watson , who had played like Hopkins college football for the Clemson Tigers, Hopkins found back to old performance. He showed a particularly outstanding performance in week 8 against the Seattle Seahawks, where he shone with 224 receiving yards and a spectacular 72-yard touchdown run. Nevertheless, he could not prevent the 38:41 defeat of his team. At the end of the season there were 13 touchdowns by pass catches, which meant league top value as well as the 78 points scored. He was nominated for the Pro Bowl as well as for the First Team All-Pro ; He came in 13th on the list of the NFL Top 100 Players , which is chosen by the players every year .

The 2018 season was similarly successful for Hopkins, whom the renowned Bleacher Report described as the "most underrated wide-receiver superstar of the NFL". Hopkins set Andre Johnson's season franchise record with 115 pass catches, unlike the latter, he managed to do so without dropping a single ball - the NFL record since this statistic was recorded (2006). The 1,572 yards of space gained at the end of the season meant a career record. Even after this season, his achievements were honored not only with the third Pro Bowl nomination in a row, but again with an election to the First Team All Pro. Here he received the most of all offensive players with 46 votes.

As part of a trade, the Texans sent Hopkins together with a 2020 four-round pick to the Arizona Cardinals , who in return gave running back David Johnson a two-round pick and a four-round pick in 2021 to the Texans.

Private

DeAndre Hopkins' father, who faced a long prison sentence for a number of serious drug offenses, was killed in a car accident when Hopkins was just five months old. His single mother had to support him and his three siblings with two jobs; When DeAndre was 10 years old, she also lost her right eyesight and a large part of her left eye from an acid attack. His uncle Terry Smith, who was the all-time receiving leader of the Clemson Tigers in the 1990s and made it into the Practice Squad of the Indianapolis Colts as a wide receiver , was shot by the police after his career ended due to injury when he threatened his wife and her two-year-old daughter with a knife.

Hopkins' cousin Javis Austin, also a successful player with the Clemson Tigers and role model for DeAndre, shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt that he miraculously survived after failure on the football team. Hopkins later commented on these blows of fate as follows: “It all only made me stronger. Small obstacles can't get me down. Because I've already been through so much. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DeAndre Hopkins Biography. In: clemsontigers.com. Clemson Tigers, accessed June 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ hopkins enters nfl draft (English) espn.com, accessed on October 16, 2015
  3. ↑ hopkings embracing role of no 1 receiver espn.com, accessed on October 16, 2015
  4. ^ NFL: DeAndre Hopkins named AFC Offensive Player of the Week. chron.com, October 21, 2015, accessed June 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Sarah Barshop: Texans WR DeAndre Hopkins named first-team All-Pro for first time. espn.com, January 5, 2018, accessed June 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ receiving statistics 2015. PFR.com, accessed on June 7, 2019 (English).
  7. ↑ 2015 Houston Texans Statistics & Players. PFR.com, accessed June 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Kevin Patra: Texans sign DeAndre Hopkins to 5-year, $ 81M deal. nfl.com, August 31, 2017, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Boxscore. PFR.com, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Receiving statistics 2017. PFR.com, accessed on June 8, 2019 (English).
  11. ↑ Aaron Wilson: Texans' DeAndre Hopkins ranked 13th in NFL Network top 100 list. sfgate.com, June 9, 2018, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  12. ^ Brad Gagnon: DeAndre Hopkins Making His Case as the Most Underrated WR Superstar in the NFL. Bleacher Report, December 16, 2018, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Mark Lane: Texans WR DeAndre Hopkins set record for 0 drops. texanswire.usatoday.com, February 10, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Herbie Teope: All-Pro Team: Donald, Mahomes among highlights. NFL.com, January 4, 2019, accessed June 8, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Sarah Barshop: Sources: Cardinals get DeAndre Hopkins, RB David Johnson to Texans ship on espn.com. March 16, 2020, accessed on March 16, 2020.
  16. ↑ Oliver Jensen: DeAndre Hopkins: Superstar and tragic figure. ran.de, December 9, 2018, accessed June 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hopkins, DeAndre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Central , South Carolina , United States