DeAndre Hopkins
Hopkins in 2014
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| No. 10 Houston Texans | |||||||||
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| Position: | Wide receiver | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | June 6, 1992 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Central, South Carolina | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 218 lb (99 kg) | ||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||
| High school: | Central (SC) Daniel | ||||||||
| College: | Clemson | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 2013 / Round: 1 / Pick: 27 | ||||||||
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| Roster status: | Active | ||||||||
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| Career NFL statistics as of Week 17, 2016 | |||||||||
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| Receptions: | 317 |
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| Receiving yards: | 4,487 |
| Receiving touchdowns: | 23 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
DeAndre Rashaun Hopkins (born June 6, 1992), nicknamed "Nuk", is an American football wide receiver for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Texans in the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football at Clemson.
Hopkins attended D. W. Daniel High School in Central, South Carolina, where he was a star in football and basketball and ran track. During his high school career, Hopkins had 57 receptions for 1,266 yards and 18 touchdowns on offense and 28 interceptions and five touchdowns on defense.
Hopkins also played basketball in high school as a guard and point guard, scoring 1,453 career points for the D.W. Daniel Lions basketball team. His senior season, 2009–10, the Lions won their third South Carolina State Championship, and Hopkins was named the Independent Mail's player of the year.
Hopkins enrolled in Clemson University, where he played for the Clemson Tigers football team from 2010 to 2012. As a true freshman in 2010, Hopkins was Clemson's leading receiver with 52 receptions for 637 yards and four touchdowns. Hopkins also played basketball after his freshman season. As a sophomore in 2011, he had 72 receptions for 978 yards and five touchdowns. In his junior season in 2012, Hopkins had one of the best receiving seasons in ACC history, with an ACC-best 1,405 yards on 82 catches and a school-record 18 touchdowns (second in the nation) earning First Team All-Conference honors. Hopkins, along with junior quarterback Tajh Boyd and wide receiver Sammy Watkins, combined to make one of the most prolific passing offenses in college football and broke many individual and career school records. Hopkins left Clemson with career record for receiving yards (3,020) and career touchdown grabs (27) with at least one score in each of the last 12 games. On January 10, 2013, Hopkins decided to forgo his senior season at Clemson and enter the NFL draft.
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