DeAndre Hopkins unlikely to hit milestones to void final year of contract
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins signed a big contract extension in 2020. In the contract, his salary would increase each year through 2023 and then decline in 2024, the final year of the contract.
He will make $6.65 million in salary this season after getting paid a $10.65 million bonus, for a total for $17.3 million in scheduled money.
He will make $19.45 million in 2023 and then that will drop to $14.92 million in 2024, his age 32 season.
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There is a clause in his contract that voids the final year of his contract at age 31 and giving him the opportunity to get a new deal and avoid that decrease in salary.
There are four ways Hopkins can have his deal void. All he has to do is hit one of them in the four seasons between 2020-2023:
He can catch 400 passes.
He can reach 5,000 receiving yards.
He can score at least 40 receiving touchdowns.
He can be named first-team All-Pro four times.
Between his injury last season and the suspension this season, it is highly unlikely he will hit any of those milestones.
He can’t hit the All-Pro milestone. He was not a first-team All-Pro either of the last two seasons. There are only two seasons left for that.
In two seasons, he has 157 receptions for 1,979 yards and 14 touchdowns.
He can play a maximum of 28 games over the next two seasons. He needs 243 receptions, 3,021 receiving yards or 26 touchdown receptions to reach the levels necessary to void the final year.
That would mean he would need to average more than 8.6 receptions, nearly 108 yards or just less than a touchdown per game over the next 28.
For his career, he has averaged 5.8 catches, 77.8 yards and 0.5 touchdowns per game.
It is safe to say that Hopkins will not get that final year voided.
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