Five years ago at the annual NFL Honors ceremony, DeAndre Hopkins posted a photo to social media that included himself, Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry and posed the question, “How many TDs would this trio total?”

Two years ago, while Jackson was amid contract negotiations with the Ravens, the quarterback requested to general manager Eric DeCosta that Baltimore acquire Hopkins and Odell Beckham Jr. to improve the team’s wide receiver corps.

Jackson got Beckham for one season in 2023, and now he gets Hopkins, who is the latest in a long line of once-premier pass catchers to sign with the Ravens in the twilight of their careers on the cheap after agreeing to a one-year deal worth up to $6 million on Tuesday.

The list of past-their-prime receivers who have resided in the Charm City is long: Steve Smith Sr. (2014-2016), Mike Wallace (2016-17), Jeremy Maclin (2017), Michael Crabtree (2018), Dez Bryant (2020), Sammy Watkins and DeSean Jackson (2022), Beckham (2023) and Nelson Agholor (2023-24).

For the most part, that group had an underwhelming impact. Where does Hopkins, who will turn 33 in June and is entering his 13th season in the league, fit in?

While he’s past the point of his career in which he will put up 1,000-yard seasons — something the three-time All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowl selection did seven times, including most recently in 2023 with the Tennessee Titans — there is evidence to suggest that Hopkins could have a greater impact than the bulk of the aging receivers the Ravens have previously brought in.

Zay Flowers and Rashod Bateman: Flowers is coming off a 74-catch, 1,059-yard sophomore season in which he was selected to the Pro Bowl. Bateman, a first-round draft pick in 2021, had career highs in yards (756) and touchdowns (nine).

In other words, Hopkins will be expected to be a complementary third receiver alongside two ascending players.

Add in tight ends Mark Andrews and Isaiah Likely, along with Henry and fellow backs Justice Hill and Keaton Mitchell, who is now 15 months removed from the torn ACL that ended his 2023 season, and there are plenty of impactful players that defenses will have to account for.

That should make the job of Hopkins, who still has excellent hands and guile in his route running, easier than it was last season in Kansas City and certainly Tennessee.Still productive: Hopkins put up respectable numbers last season with 56 catches for 610 yards and five touchdowns despite being slowed by a knee injury at the start of training camp and being stuck on a bad Titans team before being traded to the Chiefs.

He obviously isn’t the same player he was in his prime — his 38.1 receiving yards per game and 10.9 yards per catch were career lows, and he was last selected to a Pro Bowl in 2020 — but there were other bright spots last season that portend a potentially meaningful year in Baltimore.

Only 16 players had more contested catches than Hopkins’ 12, per Pro Football Focus, which also ranked him 23rd out of 98 receivers.

He also ranked 20th in ESPN’s open score metric, which tied with Ja’Marr Chase and Calvin Ridley and was ahead of such players as Justin Jefferson and George Pickens.

Hopkins also had just two drops last season, showing he’s still a highly dependable target, something that is bolstered by a 6-foot-1, 212-pound frame that makes him a threat in the red zone and in short-yardage situations.

How will he fit?: One interesting note from last season is that the Ravens used three-wide receiver sets just 27% of the time, ranking last in the NFL.

But that came when veteran Nelson Agholor or little-used Tylan Wallace were operating as Baltimore’s No. 3 receiver, and neither have the same ability as Hopkins. It should help, too, that Flowers, a run-after-the-catch dynamo, and Bateman, a smooth route runner with deep ball speed, complement what Hopkins does in short and intermediate areas of the field and in crowds.

Hopkins is also durable. Only his 2021 season was significantly impacted by injuries (hamstring, MCL) over his first 12 years in the league, though he was suspended for the first six games of the 2022 season for a violation of the league’s performance-enhancing drugs policy.

Hopkins could also perhaps bestow his football wisdom on an otherwise relatively young receiver room, much the way Beckham did, and finally gets to see just how many touchdowns he, Jackson and Henry can total.

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