{"id":707856,"date":"2026-01-27T02:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707856\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:33:18","slug":"ravens-all-pro-wr-makes-lamar-jackson-stance-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/707856\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravens All-Pro WR makes Lamar Jackson stance clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/nfl\/baltimore-ravens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a>\u00a0somehow didn&#8217;t make the playoffs in 2025, and now, under Jesse Minter, work is underway to ensure that in 2026, Baltimore is a playoff team.<\/p>\n<p>But to do that, Lamar Jackson needs protection, and he needs weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Zay Flowers, Derrick Henry, Mark Andrews, and Isaiah Likely (free agent) are the main weapons for Lamar, but All-Pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins was one of them in 2025, but now he is a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>With all the coaching changes, the new offensive coordinator might not want to have a veteran like Hopkins on the team.<\/p>\n<p>But the former first-round pick, who was a guest on the Up &amp; Adams Show, made it clear that he wouldn&#8217;t mind a return to Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to come back, but not every offensive coordinator is wanting a veteran WR on their team,&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/koestreicher34\/status\/2015886931830145370\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hopkins said<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s nothing personal, obviously, Lamar and I had a great connection. Of course, I love Baltimore, me being the competitor,\u00a0I would have loved to be used more, it doesn\u2019t upset me that I wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to play with Lamar [Jackson] again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/uk\/nfl\/baltimore-ravens\/news\/raven-lamar-jackson-ultimate-protector-mock-draft\/4c5a2c06a02d16f1c4e9a861\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ravens get Lamar Jackson ultimate protector in latest mock draft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it worth Hopkins returning?<\/p>\n<p>You could make the case that it is. But Hopkins, under Todd Monken, was more of a situational receiver, instead of an every-down weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Just 22 receptions for 330 yards and 2 TDs isn&#8217;t a great return, but he only played 33 percent of the offensive snaps (334).<\/p>\n<p>So, depending on who the new coordinator is, it\u00a0might factor into whether or not DeAndre returns.<\/p>\n<p>He wants to, now we have to find out if the Ravens want him to return as well.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL news:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baltimore Ravens\u00a0somehow didn&#8217;t make the playoffs in 2025, and now, under Jesse Minter, work is underway to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-707856","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-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115964726810952069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707856","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=707856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}