DeAndre Hopkins isn’t retiring anytime soon. Especially after signing a two-year, $54.5 million contract extension with the Cardinals on Tuesday that keeps him with the team through 2024 and essentially makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history who is not a quarterback over those two seasons.
But in negotiating his deal with General Manager Steve Keim without an agent and doing “90 percent of it myself,” Hopkins got some keen, on-the-job training for what he hopes will blossom into an NFL front-office career after his playing days.
If the three-time consecutive first-team All-Pro is half as good in the boardroom as he has been on the football field for the past seven years, Hopkins might end up winning some Executive of the Year awards in the future.