via the Ravens\u2019 website<\/a>. \u201cWe asked him, me and one of the strength coaches, \u2018What do you think about the team from the outside looking in since you\u2019ve been on other teams?\u2019 And he said, \u2018It seems like there\u2019s been a piece that\u2019s been missing. I could be that addition. I could not be that addition.’\u201d<\/p>\nThe Kansas City Chiefs traded for Hopkins last year hoping he could be that guy on a team that had already won the previous two Super Bowls \u2014 and he was not. He did catch four touchdown passes in 10 games, plus another in the playoffs. But the Ravens don\u2019t need Hopkins to be in his prime, either.<\/p>\n
For once, they arguably have a good receiving corps. Zay Flowers and Rashard Bateman are a solid combination, and they also throw to their tight ends. DeAndre Hopkins just needs to be that big veteran presence for the Ravens, and he knows that.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo hear a veteran guy, All-Pro guy and Pro Bowl guy say he could be, or he could not be [the piece that\u2019s missing], to me, that was extremely humbling,\u201d Humphrey reiterated. \u201cI feel that he fits the Ravens mold, and I think he\u2019ll fit right in.\u201d<\/p>\n
DeAndre Hopkins did have a 1,000-yard season as recently as 2023 at age 31, with seven touchdowns. Over the past two years, he hasn\u2019t missed time due to injury. But he is 33 years old now, and it\u2019s unclear what\u2019s left in the tank. He signed with the Ravens on a one-year, $5 million contract, so that reflects where he is at this point.<\/p>\n
Last year, the Ravens hoped that RB Derrick Henry was that missing piece<\/a>. Hopkins looked at that team and saw that something was still missing. Everyone wants to believe that they are the one who can make a difference, but he is being realistic. Perhaps he can help them get over the edge, but not in a starring role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baltimore Ravens are one of the top teams in the league but keep coming up just a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,4695,7,7142,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-145928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-deandre-hopkins","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-marlon-humphrey","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114717921633323494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}