{"id":796505,"date":"2026-08-01T01:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796505\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:40:12","slug":"former-nfl-pro-bowl-wr-deandre-hopkins-expected-to-join-georgia-techs-offensive-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796505\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Pro Bowl WR DeAndre Hopkins expected to join Georgia Tech’s offensive coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL<\/a> Pro Bowl receiver DeAndre Hopkins<\/a> is set to start the next stage of his career as the 34-year-old is currently expected to join Georgia Tech’s<\/a> offensive staff, sources tell CBS Sports. <\/p>\n

Hopkins was around the Georgia Tech facility this week visiting with the team. <\/p>\n

The South Carolina native has a long-standing relationship with Yellow Jackets offensive coordinator George Godsey, who was his offensive coordinator for two seasons with the Texans<\/a> and also worked with him last season in Baltimore. <\/p>\n

Hopkins recently concluded a stint working with the New England Patriots<\/a>, where he spent a few days helping the coaching and personnel staff. He played for New England coach Mike Vrabel when they were with the\u00a0Titans<\/a>. <\/p>\n

One of the most productive wide receivers of the last decade, Hopkins is a three-time first-team All-Pro and a five-time Pro Bowl selection. He spent the 2025 season with the Ravens<\/a>, catching 22 passes for 330 yards and two scores. <\/p>\n

Earlier this offseason Hopkins indicated in an interview with SiriusXM that he hoped to play a 14th season in the NFL. <\/p>\n

“I still got a lot ball left,” Hopkins said in June<\/a>. “But it’s not a situation I’m sitting here trying to force or go out and be the regular-season superstar because that’s for the young guys, man. That’s for the people that they want to develop and give those contracts for the future.<\/p>\n

“I know in my position, I’m a utility guy. I’m a special situation kind of guy. I can go out there and beat anybody one on one at any time, but as of lately, I’ve been a third-down guy. I wasn’t used in the red zone last year. But (on) third down, they’re gonna put D-Hop in, they’re gonna come to me. I don’t think that’ll change anytime soon.”<\/p>\n

Hopkins spent a few days around the Patriots staff to explore if he’d be interested in coaching, per Vrabel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, he’s set to begin that next career step in Atlanta with the Yellow Jackets.<\/p>\n

If Hopkins’ NFL career is concluded, the former first-round pick will have totaled 13,295 career receiving yards and 85 touchdowns, ranking in the top 20 all time in both categories. He spent time with the Texans, Cardinals<\/a>, Titans, Chiefs<\/a> and Ravens in his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hopkins was an All-American wide receiver at Clemson<\/a> and is a former four-star recruit from the 2010 recruiting class.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Pro Bowl receiver DeAndre Hopkins is set to start the next stage of his career as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1829,8849,58858,9370,1771,1607,19687,399,9228,8942,4058,1236,398,396,397,1815,349,116384,235896,1838,99,8853,51095,17965],"class_list":["post-796505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-cardinals","tag-chiefs","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-college-football","tag-deandre-hopkins","tag-football","tag-georgia-tech","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-houston-texans","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-free-agency","tag-nfl-free-agents","tag-ravens","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-texans","tag-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}