When the Arizona Cardinals released veteran wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins last week, making him a free agent, there was lots of speculation that Hopkins could end up with the Cleveland Browns to reunite with quarterback Deshaun Watson, who he played alongside with the Houston Texans. And it sounds like Watson would want him.
During a press conference this week, Deshaun Watson revealed that the Browns would “love to have him” if it works out.
“Me and D-Hop, we just naturally talk. We’ve been talking since the Houston days, and whenever he was in Arizona, we were always talking,” Watson said at the Browns Foundation Golf outing, via Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland.com. “He’s always been a brother of mine since I was coming out of high school. Our connection, our relationship has always been great. And I know there’s a lot of things swirling around in the media about him possibly coming to Cleveland. For me, my answer to that is, of course we’d love to have him.
“He knows that. We have a lot of connections, but it’s kind of out my range of things of trying to coordinate things. All I can do is make a call and see what happens and let AB [G.M. Andrew Berry] do the rest.”
Both Watson and Hopkins were at their best when they were playing together, so it only makes sense that they would want to reunite.
