Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins appeared to make it abundantly clear that money isn’t the root of the friction between him and his team as trade rumors swirl.
“‘Hopkins doesn’t want a raise,’ - Nuk,” Hopkins posted Sunday on Twitter. However, he later deleted the tweet.
“Nuk” is a nickname given to him by his family when he was a baby, and it appears he resorted to referencing himself in third-person to tackle the speculation head on. Hopkins signed a two-year contract extension in 2020 worth $54.5 million that runs through the 2024 season. With an average annual value of $27.275 million, Hopkins currently is the third-highest paid wide receiver in the NFL, behind only Miami’s Tyreek Hill and Las Vegas’s Davante Adams.
