DeAndre Rashaun Hopkins plays for the Arizona Cardinals of the Public Football Association (NFL). He plays in the place of a wide collector. Nicknamed "Nuk", Hopkins was brought into the world on June 6, 1992. He played school football at Clemson and was drafted in the 2013 NFL Draft by the Houston Texans in the main round. He was the 27th generally speaking pick. Hopkins marked a four-year agreement of $7.68 million with the Texans with an ensured $6.18 million including a marking reward of $3.98 million. He is a five-time Ace Bowler and has likewise been named to the five Every Ace group.
As a newborn child, Hopkins was given the moniker Nuk by his mom since he regularly bit through NUK pacifiers. It is articulated, as a "nuke" (albeit the pacifier brand is articulated "alcove").
Hopkins went to D. W. Daniel Secondary School in Focal, South Carolina, where he played football and ball, and ran Olympic-style sports for Lion's athletic groups. During his secondary school football profession, Hopkins had 57 gatherings for 1,266 yards and 18 scores on offense and 28 interferences, and five scores on guard. While in the ball group, he played as a shooting watchman and point monitor, scoring 1,453 professional focuses. His senior season, 2009-10, the Lions won their third South Carolina State Title, and Hopkins was named the Free Mail's player of the year. He was evaluated as the twelfth-best wide recipient in the country and the Province of South Carolina. He got different rankings from legitimate games associations, and ESPN positioned him as the 29th-best competitor. He procured an All-State first-group from the state and The Charlotte Eyewitness.
Hopkins signed up for Clemson College and played for their group, the Tigers, from 2010-2012. Hopkins was a quick effect player as he turned into an enormous supporter of their offense as a first-year recruit. He was the group's driving recipient with 52 gatherings for 637 yards and four getting scores. He additionally played ball after his green bean season, where he played seven games for the Tigers b-ball group. The group took a significant jump in his sophomore mission, improving from 6-7 to Roger that, and Hopkins counted quantities of 72 gatherings for 978 getting yards and five getting scores. In his lesser year, Hopkins was just remarkable. He drove the group to their initial 11-win season beginning around 1981. Hopkins set the school standard for most scores in a quarter with 3, against Ball State. In his lesser season in 2012, Hopkins had one of the most mind-blowing getting seasons in ACC history, with a meeting best 1,405 yards on 82 gets and a school-record 18 scores procuring First-group All-Gathering praises. Hopkins, alongside junior quarterback Tajh Boyd and wide recipient Sammy Watkins, joined to make quite possibly the most productive passing offense in school football and broke numerous individual and vocational school records. He scored a score in every one of the last ten rounds of the time, multiplying the past school record for sequential games with a score. Hopkins left Clemson with a professional record for getting yards (3,020) and vocation score gatherings (27). His 206 professional gatherings were the most by a Clemson recipient since Aaron Kelly had 232 from 2005-2008. On January 10, 2013, Hopkins chose to do without his senior season at Clemson and enter the NFL Draft.
Deandre Hopkins, throughout his 10-year profession, has made a name for being a consistent, solid wide recipient in the association. He's been a steady shoo-in for the Every Single Expert group, having made either the first or second group consistently from 2015 to 2020, excepting his somewhat disheartening 2016 mission. Likewise, he's been a consistent presence at the Expert Dishes, making them in every one of the years he was an All-Ace colleague. He's likewise been an NFL-getting scores pioneer and was quickly effective as a tenderfoot, with an All-Newbie Group choice added to his repertoire.
The Houston Texans chose Hopkins in the principal round with the 27th general pick in the 2013 NFL Draft. It was only the second time in 10 years that the Texans chose a hostile player (the other determination was left tackle Duane Brown) in the principal round. He turned into the most noteworthy wide recipient out of Clemson since Pole Gardner went fifteenth by and large in 2001. On July 24, 2013, Hopkins marked a four-year, $7.62 million agreement with the group. The initial three years of the agreement were completely ensured. Hopkins got going his profession solid, in any event, getting NFL Youngster of the Month praises for September.
In his most memorable season, he got done with 52 gatherings for 802 getting yards and two scores, balancing with an NFL All-Newbie Group choice. His tenderfoot season was damaged by conflicting quarterback play by Matt Schaub that prompted Schaub's sidelining after nine capture attempts in five games. Hopkins returned as a beginning wide recipient close by Andre Johnson under new lead trainer Bill O'Brien to start the 2014 season. Hopkins was the Texans' driving collector in 2014, recording 76 gatherings for 1,210 yards and six scores in 16 games and 16 beginnings. Hopkins was cemented as the Texans' main beneficiary to start the 2015 season after veteran Andre Johnson withdrew to the Indianapolis Foals in free office. In Week 6, he recorded 10 gatherings for 142 yards and 2 scores en route to procuring his most memorable profession AFC Hostile Player of the Week grant. In Week 13, Hopkins broke the Texans' establishment record for most getting scores in a solitary season, recently held by Andre Johnson, with his 10th score. Hopkins completed the 2015 season with then-profession highs in gatherings (111), getting yards (1,521), and scores (11), notwithstanding playing with four unique quarterbacks. He acquired his most memorable vocation Ace Bowl selection and was named second-group All-Master. He was additionally positioned nineteenth by his kindred players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016. On July 30, 2016, Hopkins didn't answer an instructional course after he declared he was waiting for another agreement. In the 2016 season, Hopkins endured some little relapse as the quarterback play of Brock Osweiler needed positive consistency. Hopkins had 78 gatherings for 954 yards and four scores in the 2016 season, all his most reduced aggregates since his freshman season in 2013.
On August 31, 2017, the Houston Texans marked Hopkins to a five-year, $81 million agreement expansion with $49 million ensured and a marking reward of $7.5 million. On December 19, 2017, Hopkins was named to his subsequent Star Bowl. Hopkins completed the 2017 season with 96 gatherings for 1,378 yards and an association driving 13 scores. He drove the association in scoring among wide beneficiaries with 78 places. He was named a First-group All-Genius for the 2017 season and was positioned thirteenth by his kindred players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018. Hopkins completed the 2018 season with a vocation high 115 gets for a profession high 1,572 getting yards and 11 scores. He completed third in the association in gatherings and second in getting yards. He was named to his third Ace Bowl and his subsequent straight First-group All-Genius. He was positioned eleventh by his kindred players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2019. Hopkins completed the 2019 season with 104 gatherings for 1,165 getting yards and seven getting scores. He was positioned eighth by his kindred players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2020.
Hopkins is assessed to have total assets upwards of $40 million, owed to a great extent to the three rewarding arrangements he has endorsed during his NFL profession up until this point, alongside different supports from any semblance of different new businesses like Past Meat, Therabody, and so on while additionally consenting to an arrangement with the Jordan Brand. To find out about Deandre Hopkins' total assets and different supports,
Because of the public idea of his game and the somewhat scandalous family that he's a Hopkins' relative history is very notable.
Hopkins was raised by his single parent, Sabrina Greenlee, with whom he has areas of strength for a. He credits her for his prosperity. She held two positions throughout his experience growing up and worked at a car manufacturing plant.
In July 2002, Greenlee had a bubbling blend of lye and fade tossed on her by Savannah Award, age 24. Greenlee had found her beau taking part in an extramarital entanglement with Award. The assault brought about the skin quickly stripping off her neck, face, and back. Her sweetheart got her, set her in his vehicle, and dropped her off at a close-by service station. The service station specialist called 911, and Greenlee was raced to an emergency clinic and later traveled to Augusta, Georgia, where she was put in a restoratively prompted unconsciousness for quite some time and had skin units concerned her face. Greenlee endured consumes north of 17% of her body. Her aggressor was accused of threatening behavior with the purpose to kill and got a 20-year sentence. She has been imprisoned starting around 2003. Hopkins' mom was left visually impaired because of this assault.
Hopkins additionally has three kin, two sisters, and one sibling. His two more established kin, Kesha and Marcus, are from a past relationship his mom had. His more seasoned sister, Kesha Smith, is a Southern Wesleyan College graduate. In 2014, she moved to Houston where she is a ball mentor and an opening beneficiary for the Houston Energy of the Free Ladies' Football Association. His more youthful sister, Shanterria Cobb, marked a letter of plan in the spring of 2016 to play b-ball at Texas Southern College. She was a three-time all-locale choice in the ball at D.W. Daniel Secondary School. His more seasoned sibling, Marcus Greenlee, was a champion football and b-ball player in secondary school and momentarily went to Georgia Military School.
Hopkins is a Christian. He grew up going to chapel with his mom and was purified through the water one day after training at Clemson in 2012.