While the Tennessee Titans have done a relatively good job plugging their holes with limited funds this offseason, the team has neglected the wide receiver position up to this point.
However, the Titans have a chance to drastically change that if they can be successful in their pursuit of DeAndre Hopkins, who is also being courted by at least the New England Patriots, the only other team to host him for a visit.
It goes without saying that if the Titans make only one more move the rest of the offseason, it needs to be signing Hopkins to help bolster what is arguably the worst receiving corps. in the NFL.
And that’s something ESPN’s Field Yates agrees with, as he listed signing the 31-year-old wideout as the “last offseason roster move” the Titans need to make. Here’s what he wrote:
I know we had the same move suggestion for the Patriots, and only one team is going to get it done. But the Titans were the first team to host Hopkins on a visit, and the veteran receiver would fill a glaring need right now. The Titans have one of the league’s thinnest wide receiver depth charts, and Hopkins would immediately assert himself as the top pass-catcher in this offense. Tennessee’s roster is in an interesting space, where it feels like it is straddling the desire to get younger while also holding onto key veterans like Derrick Henry and Ryan Tannehill. But a Mike Vrabel-led team will yield a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. D-Hop would help a lot.
It’s almost an understatement that the addition of Hopkins would be massive, not only because of his history of elite production in this league, but also because it would completely turn around the negative view of Tennessee’s receiving corps., which is rightly considered one of the worst in the NFL.
Further, it would put the Titans at least neck-and-neck with the AFC South favorites, the Jacksonville Jaguars. I’d go as far as to argue it would make Tennessee the favorite thanks to their defense, which, if healthy, should undoubtedly be better than Jacksonville’s.
