{"id":206586,"date":"2025-07-14T14:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/206586\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:33:09","slug":"30-most-important-ravens-of-2025-no-21-deandre-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/206586\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Most Important Ravens of 2025: No. 21 DeAndre Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Baltimore Ravens<\/a>\u00a0are gearing up for the 2025 NFL season, which features plenty of new and returning faces within the organization. Several players, coaches, and front-office members are crucial to the team\u2019s success this season.<\/p>\n

Every day from now until the start of training camp, we\u2019re counting down our\u00a030 Most Important Ravens<\/a>\u00a0for the 2025 season. We\u2019ll recap their 2024 season, look ahead to 2025, and tackle the most significant question facing them this year.<\/p>\n

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Next up is DeAndre Hopkins, a veteran wide receiver and future Hall of Famer who can help make the Ravens<\/a>‘ passing game more efficient in the biggest moments.<\/p>\n

Background<\/p>\n

Position: WR<\/p>\n

Age: 33<\/p>\n

Experience: 13-year pro<\/p>\n

2025 cap hit: $2,004,000<\/p>\n

2024 recap<\/p>\n

Hopkins posted his seventh 1,000-yard season in 2023 with the Tennessee Titans<\/a> and was still productive last year.<\/p>\n

Following a trade from the Tennessee Titans to the Kansas City Chiefs in October, he caught 41 passes for 437 yards and four touchdowns for the Chiefs over the final 10 regular-season games. Hopkins added three receptions during the postseason and caught a touchdown pass and a two-point conversion for the Chiefs during their loss to the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> in Super Bowl LIX.<\/p>\n

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2025 outlook<\/p>\n

The move gives the Ravens a legit third option at wide receiver and one of the NFL’s most efficient trios of pass catchers. Hopkins, most importantly, provides quarterback Lamar Jackson with an elite red zone target.<\/p>\n

Biggest question: Can Hopkins take Ravens’ passing game to bigger heights?<\/p>\n

Of the 70 wide receivers who’ve had 500 targets since 2013, Hopkins has the fifth-lowest drop rate at 1.6%. Last season, the Ravens’ wide receivers ranked 30th in the NFL with a 5.1% drop rate.<\/p>\n

With the opposing defenses likely to lock in on Derrick Henry even more in 2025, Hopkins provides the Ravens with an elite pass catcher who’ll produce in the most challenging moments. Hopkins has been one of his generation’s most productive wide receivers, having been selected to five Pro Bowls and named first-team All-Pro three times. Since entering the league in 2013, his 984 receptions lead all wide receivers, and his 12,965 receiving yards tops all players.<\/p>\n

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30 Most Important Ravens<\/a> of 2025<\/p>\n

We\u2019re counting down our 30 Most Important Ravens<\/a> of 2025. Check back every day leading up to the start of training camp.<\/p>\n

No. 30 QB Cooper Rush<\/a>, No. 29 OLB Tavius Robinson<\/a>, No. 28 Keaton Mitchell<\/a>, No. 27 Trenton Simpson<\/a>, No. 26 Mike Green<\/a>, No. 25 Travis Jones<\/a>, No. 24 Daniel Faalele<\/a>, No. 23 Andrew Vorhees<\/a>, No. 22 Patrick Ricard,<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Ravens Wire: DeAndre Hopkins makes the list of the 30 Most Important Ravens of 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Baltimore Ravens\u00a0are gearing up for the 2025 NFL season, which features plenty of new and returning faces within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[4684,184,117,2282,5898,4687,4695,292,7,43847,110,21396,895,6,18505,109,169,3825,394,2850,14492,16929,21579],"class_list":{"0":"post-206586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-andrew-vorhees","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-ravens","11":"tag-baltimoreravens","12":"tag-cooper-rush","13":"tag-daniel-faalele","14":"tag-deandre-hopkins","15":"tag-derrick-henry","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-important-ravens","18":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","19":"tag-keaton-mitchell","20":"tag-lamar-jackson","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-patrick-ricard","23":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","24":"tag-ravens","25":"tag-tavius-robinson","26":"tag-tennessee-titans","27":"tag-the-ravens","28":"tag-touchdown-pass","29":"tag-travis-jones","30":"tag-trenton-simpson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114852082727072423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206586","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=206586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}