told Kay Adams<\/a> he needs to see what kind of offense the Ravens are running before he knows if it\u2019s a good fit for him.<\/p>\n\u201cThe reality of it, having a new offensive coordinator, being an older guy, I know football and I know how the business side works,\u201d Hopkins said. \u201cI would love to come back, but not every offensive coordinator is wanting a veteran receiver on their team. Some guys have different dynamics of how they go about coaching. It\u2019s nothing personal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hopkins, who will turn 34 in June, said he loves playing with Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously Lamar and I had a great connection,\u201d Hopkins said. \u201cI think when he came to me I might have been Top 10 in productive receivers in the NFL when the ball came my way. I love Baltimore, and me being a competitor, I would have loved to be used more, even though we had Zay Flowers and Rashod Bateman and Isaiah Likely, I\u2019m always gonna have that mindset that I want to be in the game. That will never change but it doesn\u2019t upset me that I wasn\u2019t, it doesn\u2019t make me a bad teammate, I\u2019m still cheering the guys on that are in the game, but I felt that I could have been used more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hopkins was one of the best wide receivers in the NFL when the Texans traded him to the Cardinals in 2020, but he has played for four different teams in the last four seasons and hasn\u2019t found a great fit. He\u2019ll be 34 in June and knows it might be hard for him to catch on somewhere and stay there for years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love Baltimore, I think the city is great, the people and fans are amazing, organization is amazing, why wouldn\u2019t I want to come back?\u201d Hopkins said. \u201cI would love to play with Lamar again. I don\u2019t know the last time I played with a quarterback two years in a row. It sucks, but it\u2019s part of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins is coming off the least-productive year of his NFL career, catching just 22…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,6,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-708627","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\/115966468829250421","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708627","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=708627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}