When it comes to top wide receivers in the National Football League, you wouldn’t name too many players that are ahead of DeAndre Hopkins, who has shown to get it done no matter what quarterback is throwing him the ball.
The Houston Texans star wide-out is not only a beast catching the ball, but he is definitely one of the toughest after he revealed he suffered a gruesome injury in last season’s wild-card loss to the Indianapolis Colts.
“I tore ligaments in my shoulder completely off the bone,” Hopkins said Saturday, according to John McClain of the Houston Chronicle. “I tried to play even though I had only one arm. We had something good going, and I know they needed me.”
Despite his injury, he played in the entire 21-7 loss to the Colts, catching a modest five passes for 37 yards.
Hopkins also had a nagging foot injury during the 2018 season, but it didn’t stop him from playing in all 16 games, racking up a career highs in yards (1,572) and catches (115), and scored double-digit touchdowns (11) for the third time in six seasons. Not only that, he earned himself a first-team All-Pro selection for the second straight year.
“Last year was tough, not just physically but mentally,” Hopkins said. “It’s the most banged up I’ve ever been playing football. I was dealing with serious injuries a lot of people would have sat down for. But we had a good team that depended on me, and I never gave a thought to not playing unless the doctors told me I couldn’t.”
