 Alright my friends, from far and wide, welcome back to another video, welcome back to the channel. Today we enter straight back into the NFL's top 100 series with number 37 on the list, Deondre Hopkins aka Nuke. And look I'm not going to get into that story this year, I got into it last year. If you want to see what I thought about it and what, you know, how he actually got that nickname, please by all means head back into my previous playlist, NFL's top 100 players of 2021 and find out, find out for yourself. Not only that but I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure his mum might be blind. She goes to the games with family and gets them to describe to her what he does. And after they do, she gives him, she says her opinion, she can see it, she can clearly see it in her head, in her mind and she, she gives him shit. I mean she says, I think she said something last year, it got me, it got me really teared up. She said like, you know, why do you do that or, or don't step out or something like that. I can't exactly remember but it was a real tearjerker. He's clearly a family man and he's an absolute gun football player. So without further ado, let's get into the video. I've always been a huge fan of, of DeAndre Hopkins even before he became a teammate of mine. Someone put de hop, just the things that he does, the kind of respect that he commands in the field. It can be a defensive coordinator's nightmare. It's a drop of 29, but he's still a defensive coordinator's nightmare. So cheers for that. Cheers for that Chandler. You've always got something, you've always got something wise to say. He's definitely a great player. Real talented, great hands. Where's he at? He's at the, so he's at, so he's played one season at the Cardinals. Prior to that it was the Texans. Talk about dead legs. That's a dead leg and a half. And that's a penalty. Throw the flag ref. Get off me. And he still takes the catch, unbelievable. I assume that would have been a defensive penalty and they would have declined it. And if it's a 50-50 ball, a lot of times he comes down with it. It is caught for a touchdown by DeHop. That dead leg was something else. DeHop caught it. Despite playing in only 10 games, DeAndre Hopkins scored eight touchdowns. And it's caught in the back of the end zone by Hopkins and he's got his feet down for the touchdown. 10 games. Why is that? Let's find out. And at the same time, let's have a look at his stats. To all our readers in New Zealand, please don't scroll past this. This Wednesday for the first time recently, we humbly ask you to defend Wikipedia's independence. 98% of our readers don't give. They simply look the other way. And unfortunately, Wikipedia, at this point, I'm part of that 98%. Let's move on. 30 years of age, June 6, 1992, is his birthday. Six foot one, 212 pounds. Went to Clemson, 2010 to 2012. Pick number 27 in the first round of the 2013 draft. Went to the Texans for seven seasons. He's been at the Cardinals for two. Three first-team All-Pro selections, two second-team All-Pro selections. Five Pro Bowl selections, with his last being in 2020. And he was the NFL receiving touchdowns leader in 2017. Came into the league with a 4.57 second, 40 yard dash. A three cone drill in 6.83 seconds, which is pretty elite. 36 inches in the vertical, nine foot seven on the ball jump. And 15 reps on the bench press. Now let's move down to his 2021 season. So he played week one. I'm pretty sure he played all the way through to week 10. Suffered a hamstring injury, which took him out of the game for the next three games. Actually, that might not be right. But regardless, in week 14, he suffered a second injury, a torn MCL, and was placed on Indra Reserve on December 18th. He finished the season with 42 catches for 572 yards, and eight touchdowns through 10 games. So he had two injuries, a hamstring injury. And then shortly after that, a torn MCL. So he was in the wars. He was in the wars, no doubt. And this is something I wasn't aware of. On May 2nd, 2022, the NFL announced that Hopkins would be suspended for the first six games of the season for a violation of the league's performance enhancing drugs policy. Well, well, well, as a bodybuilding fan, I know all about that. And I'd love to know more. Let's have a look at the news story. I'll get that up. But first and foremost, 136 career regular season games, 10,581 yards. So he actually already had 10,000 receiving yards prior to last season. But he added 572 for good measure, 68 receiving touchdowns, only four rushing attempts in his entire career. That seems, I don't know, he's clearly an out-and-out receiver, longest rushing attempt of 12 yards, his longest catch being 76 yards for a touchdown in 2014, his longest catch last year in 2021 being a 55-yard reception. 10 fumbles, seven lost. Not that that really matters. In the post-season, I'll tell you what, Houston were absolutely balling. Six games through four years, five years, sorry, five seasons, six games. 37 receptions for 446 yards and one touchdown. Well, let's hope you can add to that this year. All right, so you know what? I am going to run through this story just quickly. He was raised by a single mother, Sabrina Greenlee, with whom he had a strong relationship. He credits her for his success. She had two jobs throughout his childhood and worked at an automotive factory. In July 2002, she had a boiling concoction of lye and bleach thrown on her by Savannah Grant, age 24. Greenlee had caught her boyfriend at the time having an affair with Grant. The attack resulted, so a bit of a love triangle here, the attack resulted in the skin rapidly peeling off her neck, face, and back. Her boyfriend picked her up, placed her in his vehicle, and dropped her off at a nearby gas station. The gas station attendant called number one and she was rushed to hospital, where she was placed in a medically-induced coma for three weeks and had skin grafts applied to her face. She suffered burns over 17% of her body. Her attacker was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill and received a 20-year sentence. She has been incarcerated since 2003. Hopkins' mother, Sabrina Greenlee, was left completely blind as a result of this attack, and that goes back to what I said earlier. All right, guys, let's get back into the video. That is beyond belief, mate. Touchdown! What a catch! Hey. How you got his feet down? Hopkins' numbers may have been down, but his highlight real plays and respect from peers are still elite. Hopkins' a great player, physical player. I mean, he's the guy that's initiating the contact. I mean, not many receivers, I feel, do that. Hmm, interesting point. Well, how De'Andre Hopkins broke the tackle, it looked like he was dead to rights. Hang on, let's have a look at that again. Receivers, I feel, do that. Off the left. Well, how De'Andre Hopkins broke the tackle, it looked like he was dead to rights. Stabbed the pig out of the air and brought it in for a touchdown catch. So that's someone that's gonna go up and get it and definitely does trying to make a top 10 play on you. Fourth and two on the Bears, 20. Looks right, throws a deep ball right side in the end zone, and it's caught! Do they rule in bounds or out of bounds? Out of bounds, incomplete. Now the officials are having a conversation. Excuse me? Sation, might they change the... Yeah, take another look at that, mate, please. Get the touchdown, touchdown. It's De'Andre Hopkins. He's gonna be there or thereabouts. De'Andre Hopkins. Get the touchdown, it's a given of all. I'm definitely deemed... There he is, there he is again, he's back. Straight off the field, into the studio, and... You know what, I'd absolutely love to see him on the list. I don't think we will, for whatever reason. This is classic, this is vintage. This is Dante Dayan. He's saying, hey, if I got a one-on-one, let me get a half of it. What would this crew have said when he walks in there in his training gear? They probably have loved it, I would have. Because he gets a lot of one-on-one opportunities and he makes majority of them. De'Andre Hopkins. Oh, mate, well, not only is that a flag, where's the fucking flag, mate? He's being pressed at the line of scrimmage. Excuse me. He makes majority of them. De'Andre Hopkins was being pressed at the line of scrimmage. He could put that into a fade. They don't like one-on-one matches anymore. Huh? I said they don't like one-on-one matches anymore. His catch radius is crazy. He goes up, attacks the ball, high points it. Keep on going downfield on them. Keep on going downfield on them. Hopkins got behind his man, it's caught. Guess who's there? De'Andre Hopkins. What a great grab by one of the best to ever do it. Great hands. He's a playmaker, a dog. Who's that guy? Hands. Laviska Chanult Jr. Jags wide receiver. Well, that's piqued my interest. I don't think he'd be on the list. At least not this year. But with a guy like Trevor Lawrence at the helm, he might just get there. I suppose you'd most probably... Unless you're a guy like De'Andre Hopkins, you've probably got to have at least 1,000 receiving yards to even have a hope of making the list. But all the best to him. And all the best to De'Hop this year, this coming year. Hopefully he can stay healthy for the 17 games. And hopefully he can make it into the playoffs. Because there's nothing worse than playing a full season of NFL football and not making the playoffs. It's the same in the NBA. It's the same in the Super Rugby. You want to make the playoffs. You play those games. You play those round robin games. You put your all into absolutely every single game just for the chance to make the playoffs. Nothing else. Nothing else matters. Anyways, guys, that was a bit of a rabbit hole for me. It happens. He's a playmaker, a dog. And he looks like a really nice guy. Crazy. Same as this guy. I'm going to lie, Marlon Humphrey. Anyways, in the next video, we're looking at a Raven. Quarterback, Lamar Jackson. And look, it'd be rude of me not to go and get his jersey. But I did wear it for a fair few videos there on the list. So I'm not going to do that. But this should be an interesting one. You know, he's dynamite on the ground and he's got a decent throw. We'll look into it. Cheers, guys. Thanks for watching. And I'll see you in the next one. Peace out.