Yannick Ngakoue situation in Jacksonville shows why we had only two options with D-Hop

Option 1: Sign him to a 20-22 million dollar / year deal (not ideal)

Option 2: Trade sooner rather than later before the relationship gets more fragmented and his trade value diminishes entirely. This does right by Hopkins and allows us to get some value in return.

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Twitter event:

https://twitter.com/i/events/1252294718983004165?s=13

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For those that don't know, Yannick went after the co-owner on twitter saying he has wanted out for a long time. There is no chance he plays for the Jaguars next year, but how does Jacksonville move him for any value in return at this point? I am not saying d-hop would necessarily go to these extreme measures, but if we did not restructure he would air his frustrations and we could not afford another Duane Brown situation in 2020-2021 (especially a player of DeAndre Hopkins' caliber).

TLDR

Many have argued we could have kept DeAndre on his current contract but the situation was really not that simple.