On a day that hit 111 degrees, following four straight days where it was 115 degrees or hotter, DeAndre Hopkins got chills.
Under other circumstances, this could point to dehydration or heat exhaustion, but here the situation was instead quenching: One-hundred and thirty-eight days after the news broke that he had been traded to Arizona, Hopkins finally donned a Cardinals uniform.
"It felt great, it felt good," the wide receiver said Monday, grinning. "It gave me chills. Not gonna lie, it felt real good to be a part of a great organization, and, man, the Cardinal red and white and black look good on me, if I do say so myself.