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Originally Posted by ForeverIowan
Fair points. Take away Jerry Rice, Randy Moss and Calvin Johnson and tell me who had better career stats at the age of 30 though. I would bet a lot of money you'd have a hard time putting together a list of more than 3 or 4 receivers. Hopkins has spent the entirety of his career playing in dysfunctional organizations as well. He hasn't played with all time great quarterbacks and high flying offenses.
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No question - and that's the only reason I'd be willing to give him $15 million/yr to begin with. Again, I'm not saying he'll suck, I'm simply pricing risk into the equation.
I'm not saying he CAN'T get himself into that group. I'm simply saying I wouldn't call it a given. There's a pretty long list of guys who perhaps weren't quite as good as Hopkins was early on and hit a wall at/near 30 years old. And a fair number who WERE as good as D-Hop.
You have plenty of Calvin Johnson, AJ Green, Michael Thomas examples out there. But maybe Nuke is Andre Johnson? Maybe he plays like a superstar through 32 after appearing to plateau a bit at 30.
I'm willing to take a reasonable gamble on that possibility - but I ain't betting the farm on it.