NASHVILLE, Tenn. – – The Tennessee Titans are supposed to sign free specialist wide recipient DeAndre Hopkins to a two-year bargain that could be worth up to $15 million in the principal year, sources told ESPN's Dianna Russini.
The arrangement, as most would consider to be normal to be finished over the course of the following couple of days, will provide Hopkins with a base compensation of $12 million in the primary year and could reach up to $15 million with motivators, sources told Russini.
Hopkins imparted a photograph of him to Titans running back Derrick Henry on Instagram on Sunday. Hopkins followed up later Sunday night on Twitter, protecting his decision of Tennessee as a free specialist.
“I generally cherished having skeptics and cynics yet I feel a debt of gratitude much more at this point. Titan up!!” Hopkins tweeted.
Hopkins, 31, carries 10 years of NFL experience with him to Nashville. He quickly turns into the most veteran beneficiary in the Titans' unpracticed wideout room. Hopkins will opening into the job as an external recipient inverse second-year wideout Treylon Burks.
The Titans facilitated Hopkins on a visit last month before he met with the New Britain Loyalists the next week. Hopkins has past involvement in different mentors on the Titans' staff.
Titans mentor Mike Vrabel was the linebackers mentor and later the guarded organizer for the Houston Texans when Hopkins was casted a ballot to two of his five vocation Expert Dishes. Hopkins posted 104 gatherings for 1,165 yards and seven scores in 2019 when current Titans hostile organizer Tim Kelly was calling the plays for the Texans.
The Cardinals delivered Hopkins on May 26. His future in Arizona had been being referred to since the finish of the 2022 season on account of his group high $30.75 million cap hit, which positioned most elevated among wide beneficiaries in the NFL and seventh most elevated in general.
The Titans' wide beneficiary gathering had a sum of two 100-yard getting games last season. Hopkins matched that all out in spite of missing the initial six rounds of the time serving a suspension for an infringement of the association's exhibition upgrading drugs strategy. He completed the season with 64 gatherings for 717 yards and three scores in nine games.
The Related Press added to this report.
