{"id":2250,"date":"2024-08-02T00:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T00:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2024-08-02T00:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T00:34:14","slug":"tennessee-titans-superstar-wr-deandre-hopkins-to-miss-significant-time-after-suffering-serious-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans Superstar WR DeAndre Hopkins To Miss Significant Time After Suffering Serious Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/tennessee-titans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee Titans<\/a>\u00a0may be without superstar wide receiver\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/deandre-hopkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeAndre Hopkins<\/a>\u00a0to begin the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-sm-content-width\" data-content-name=\"mai-video-player\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div id=\"pw-med-background\">\n<p>According to longtime Titans\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulkuharsky.com\/news\/titans-deandre-hopkins-to-miss-time-with-injury-2\">reporter\u00a0<\/a>Paul Kuharksy, DeAndre Hopkins strained his knee during practice on Wednesday or Thursday, and he\u2019s likely to be out of action for up to six weeks:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cDe\u201dAndre Hopkins suffered a strained knee injury Wednesday or Thursday and indications are he could miss four to six weeks\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I watched Hopkins leave the field late in practice Wednesday with the Titans\u2019 top medical guy, Todd Torischelli. But he had no discernible limp and I figured he was leaving for treatment, which he may have been.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Titans\u2019 season will begin five weeks from Sunday, when they take on the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/caleb-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caleb Williams<\/a>\u2019 debut. So if Hopkins is out for six weeks, he\u2019ll also miss the club\u2019s Week 2 home game against\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/aaron-rodgers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aaron Rodgers<\/a>\u2019 New York Jets.<\/p>\n<p>DeAndre Hopkins is entering the final year of a two-year, $26 million deal he signed with Tennessee after his release from the Arizona Cardinals. Last season, he caught 75 passes for 1,057 yards and seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for the Titans, GM Ran Carthon put a great focus on upgrading the wide receiver position this offseason. He signed ex-Jacksonville Jaguars star Calvin Ridley to a four-year deal worth $92 million and picked up former Cincinnati Bengal Tyler Boyd on a one-year pact.<\/p>\n<section class=\"wp-block-group check-this-out has-xs-padding-top has-sm-padding-bottom\" data-content-name=\"Check This Out\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex has-xl-margin-bottom\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here is video of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Titans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Titans<\/a> WR DeAndre Hopkins with a wrap on his left knee during individual period of practice yesterday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SZG0Orw6gv\">pic.twitter.com\/SZG0Orw6gv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TURRON DAVENPORT (@TDavenport_NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TDavenport_NFL\/status\/1819121427590607196?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Hopkins misses regular season action, the door opens up for 2022 first-round pick Treylon Burks to step up. Injuries have limited the Arkansas product to 22 games over his first two seasons, with Burks only catching 49 passes for 665 yards and one touchdown in those contests.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-titans-wrs-must-step-up-if-deandre-hopkins-misses-time\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Titans WRs Must Step Up If DeAndre Hopkins Misses Time<\/h2>\n<p>The Titans are fortunate that Hopkins\u2019 knee injury shouldn\u2019t sideline him for more than two games, but it also makes things that much tougher for the Will Levis-led offense to operate efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>Ridley and Boyd each have two 1,000-yard seasons on their resumes, and the former might regain that fom in Tennessee now that he\u2019s not playing third-fiddle to Ja\u2019Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>The depth is there for the Titans offense to get by without Hopkins, but Boyd and Burks especially need to step up and help Ridley if \u201cNuk\u201d misses time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Tennessee Titans\u00a0may be without superstar wide receiver\u00a0DeAndre Hopkins\u00a0to begin the 2024 season. According to longtime Titans\u00a0reporter\u00a0Paul Kuharksy, DeAndre Hopkins strained his knee during practice on Wednesday or Thursday, and he\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}