DeAndre Hopkins is meeting with the Patriots on Thursday, but that doesn’t mean he’s a slam dunk to sign with New England, or another team, anytime soon.
Hopkins is willing to wait until August before signing with a new team, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
“I just got official word, DeAndre Hopkins is in New England, he’s meeting with the Patriots,” Fowler said on ESPN on Thursday morning, per On3. “He will meet with the coaches, Bill Belichick and the Patriots’ interest remains high. They made that clear with Hopkins’s representatives at the very beginning when he became a free agent. So we’ll see if they can close on this thing. I’m also told that Hopkins is not in a major rush. He’s looking at more training camp, even early August as more of a harder deadline for him to sign somewhere. So it’d have to be a very sweet offer for New England to make that happen today.”
