‘S***! Cowboys Don’t Want Me?!’ DeAndre Hopkins Reveals Signing Snub

The Dallas Cowboys did not have interest in signing wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins

When people don't answer your calls, there are a few possibilities as to why they didn't pick up. But in the case of DeAndre Hopkins, it was a sort of worst-possible scenario. 

“Dallas Cowboys didn't want me,” Hopkins is now saying, confirming CowboysSI.com all-offseason-long reporting of exactly that fact. “S***! Who else ain't want me?”

Sometimes people give you the wrong number by accident, or maybe they were busy at that time, or in the case of the new Tennessee Titans pass-catcher; they aren't interested. 

Despite being one of the sport's best receivers throughout his career, the market was not nearly as lucrative for Hopkins this past offseason as it would've been in years past.

Hopkins made it known which teams he was interested in playing for, but that interest was not reciprocated by those teams. One of the teams that he was hoping to get a shot with was the Cowboys, who, he tells GQ, did not return his call.

"There were some teams that I had on my list that I gave them calls and they didn't give a call back," he told Clay Skipper of GQ.

The Cowboys weren't the only team to not pick up or call back, either.

"Detroit Lions, they didn't want me," Hopkins said. "Dallas Cowboys didn't want me. [New York] Giants didn't want me. S***! Who else ain't want me? [The San Francisco 49ers] ain't want me."

He did end up signing a two-year deal with the Tennessee Titans worth $26 million, but they were not a priority landing spot of his.

Rather than going after Hopkins, the Cowboys traded a fifth-round pick in 2023 and a sixth-round pick in 2024 for veteran speedster Brandin Cooks to pair with CeeDee Lamb. If not for that swap? Maybe Dallas - aware that D-Hop spend a good part of his off-season hanging out in the DFW area - would’ve considered a hookup.

Instead, it’s the former first-round pick Cooks - who has recorded over 1,000 yards receiving in two out of the last three years on Texans teams that were among the worst in the league - who is seen as the answer.

Cooks has also played in at least 13 games every year of his career outside of his rookie season which saw him play 10.

Hopkins meanwhile is trending downward in terms of the trajectory of his career as the last two seasons were the first times he didn't amass 100 catches since his rookie year, and also saw him only play in 10 and nine games respectively, which before that 15 was the least amount of games he had played. 

The NFL is a cruel business, even to those who were once among the best in the game. .. with the Cowboys now confident they made the right call … by not calling at all.