HOUSTON -- There's a honeymoon period between DeAndre Hopkins and his Houston Texans teammates, a time when they haven't practiced much together yet, and the teammate isn't yet accustomed to seeing Hopkins do something insane to catch the football.
Contortions, dives, one-handed grabs. At first, his teammates can't help but marvel.
Take cornerback A.J. Bouye, who was an undrafted rookie the same year Hopkins was a first-round draft pick and made it his mission to follow Hopkins around to see if he was as good as people said. He was.
Or practice squad running back Darryl Richardson, who googled Hopkins' catches after watching his new teammate in a practice.