Deandre Hopkins is a FA

[Stuart Smith]

26 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

These arguments get old. Same as the "X area is better than Y area!" We don't know what the personal motivations for most od these guys are. It might be family, taxes, area, who fuging knows?

We can guess the football reasons but speculation on people's personal motivations seems very useless.

Not necessarily. If the contract offers are similar it could make the difference. I know Lamar Jackson would love to have him if Baltimore has any money left. 

[Wolfcop]

I’d take him but not for anything that’s going to handicap us moving forward. 

[Jackie Lee]

Well good news is he's probably not interested in any of the NFCS teams. I think Chargers and Jacksonville were high on his list

[RJK]

He’s going to Buffalo 

[Biscuit]

10 minutes ago, RJK said:

He’s going to Buffalo 

Buffalo doesn't have any cap room. Neither do the Chiefs.  Baltimore does though.

[Soul Rebel]

Cap space, within reason, is irrelevant, so it's not only the teams with space that can sign him. 

If Buffalo or KC wants him and they view him as the missing piece, there's ways to make it happen. Anyone that watched our offseason should know this after watching Suleiman work his magic. 

I wonder, though a talented WR that I normally would love to have, would we bring him in and take reps away from guys like Chark, TMJ and Mingo.

We're building a long-term contender....I wonder how Nuk would disrupt or delay the youngsters getting reps.  

[w280sax]

11 minutes ago, Biscuit said:

Buffalo doesn't have any cap room. Neither do the Chiefs.  Baltimore does though.

Since he is a free agent, they can structure his contract to push all the money in the future and have a very small cap hit now.

 

  I'd bet he goes to buf or kc as well.  A trade to those teams would have been more complicated as he would have needed to restructure.

[TheSpecialJuan]

He's going to Atlanta 

[Raleigh PF]

Wherever he goes, it will be interesting to see who the "winning" team has to get rid of from their WR corps.

[rayzor]

1 minute ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

He's going to Atlanta 

[Aussie Tank]

If we didn’t trade for him we’re not signing him when he has a choice 

[TheSpecialJuan]

DEANDRE HOPKINSWR, UNSIGNED FREE AGENT

Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer reports the Chiefs received permission to talk to DeAndre Hopkins earlier in the offseason and spoke to him before the NFL draft.

The contract, Breer reports, was the hurdle. It still makes all the sense in the world for the Chiefs to add Hopkins as they never actually replaced JuJu Smith-Schuster with a veteran this offseason, but they now have very limited salary cap space and would likely need to restructure some players to be able to afford Hopkins' asking price. It may come down to what his market actually settles at. 

[kungfoodude]

1 hour ago, Stuart Smith said:

Not necessarily. If the contract offers are similar it could make the difference. I know Lamar Jackson would love to have him if Baltimore has any money left. 

So could distance to his favorite club or some other non-football reason. We don't know any of that poo so why even speculate?

Unless a player is publicly putting their personal reasons out there, this is a completely nonsense subject.

[ladypanther]

3 hours ago, pantherj said:

What team would need him more than us? This is kind of a no brainer.

Was just listening to Sirius NFL radio while in my car.  Moving the Chains with Jim Miller and Pat Kirwin.  A Panther fan called in and of course wanted DHop and asked if they thought the Panthers had the money to get him.  Jim and Pat said that DHop is not interested in raising another young QB.  But, Jim also said that the Panthers do not need him.  They love the Panther WR room.  They have been rating different position groups on each team  and next week it will be WRs.  Jim told the caller that he would be really surprised when he hears their rating/eval.  Jim loves Mingo.  Jim said the Panthers ahve realy set Bryce up well.