Cardinals are reportedly asking for an excessive amount of within the DeAndre Hopkins commerce talks

It seems that the Arizona Cardinals want to obtain a commerce compensation that exceeds what groups have been keen to placed on the desk of their makes an attempt at buying and selling for stud vast receiver, DeAndre Hopkins.

Jeremy Fowler from ESPN reported that the Baltimore Ravens examined the waters of a potential commerce for DeAndre Hopkins, solely to shortly discover out that the compensation anticipated by Arizona is manner larger than what they want to give as much as get the quickly to be 31 12 months outdated offensive weapon.

Hopkins additionally has a excessive wage and a good larger wage cap hit, with Spotrac reporting his base wage being $19.45 million {dollars}, whereas his cap hit is about at a whooping $30.75 million for 2023.

Cardinals reportedly anticipate a excessive compensation, similar to Christian McCaffrey’s commerce from the Panthers

Jeremy Fowler additionally defined that the Cardinals want to obtain a number of draft picks, anticipating a deal like Christian McCaffrey’s when he was traded from the Carolina Panthers to the San Francisco 49ers, forward of final season’s commerce deadline, with Carolina receiving a second, a 3rd and a fourth spherical picks from the 2023 NFL Draft, whereas additionally including a fourth-round choose in 2024.

“They’ll in all probability have to come back off that to deal Hopkins, who has acquired $19 million in wage resulting from him. So, you continue to have groups just like the Payments and the Chiefs and big-ticket groups which are at the least trying, window purchasing at potential choices at receiver,” Fowler expressed on Sportscenter.

This offseason, a commerce for Brandin Cooks noticed the Texans despatched him to the Cowboys in change for only a fifth-round choose within the 2023 NFL Draft, plus a sixth-round draft choose in 2024.