The Houston Texans had wide receiver Deandre Hopkins on the roster for at least the next three seasons, and even better than that, Hopkins is still only 27 years old, meaning the Texans had a pretty good thing going with one of the better wide receivers in the NFL.
That all changed Monday afternoon when the Texans and general manager Bill O’Brien traded the All-Pro wide receiver and a fourth-round draft pick this year to the Arizona Cardinals for running back David Johnson, a 2020 second-round pick and a 2021 fourth-round pick.
That said, in his Football Morning in America column, Peter King on warned us all on Monday morning, writing the following about Hopkins and the Texans possibly parting ways:
“It might be just pre-draft chatter, but two teams over the weekend told me to watch Houston and DeAndre Hopkins, who has three years and a reasonable $40 million left on his contract, and who’d cause only a $3-million cap hit to the Texans if they traded him.