Arizona Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins wasn't traded on the first night of the 2023 NFL Draft, and it looks like he won't be traded on Night 2 or Night 3 either.
Speaking after the first round of the draft on Thursday night, Cardinals first-year general manager Monti Ossenfort said the team doesn't plan to trade Hopkins during the draft at all."I don't know what is going to happen in the next couple days, but right now, I don't foresee that happening.""DeAndre is a Cardinal,"Reports about a possible Hopkins trade aren't new — he carries a $30.
But Hopkins ended up being an afterthought on draft night, with the Cardinals trading their No. 3 pick to the Houston Texans in exchange for the No. 12 and No. 33 picks in 2023.Hopkins, who will be 31 in June, was a first-round draft pick by the Texans in 2013, and matured into a standout with selections to the Pro Bowl and First Team All-Pro. He was traded to the Cardinals in 2020, which hasn't worked out quite the way the team envisioned.
It's easy to see why the Cards would have trouble trading an over-30 wide receiver with declining numbers, a recent PED suspension, and a $30 million cap hit. But it's important to remember when Indianapolis Colts GM Chris Ballard recently said about the NFL Draft: Ossenfort says he doesn't foresee trading Hopkins, but the draft is a wild and unpredictable beast. We won't know what's what until it's all over.
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