Quote:He is a pusher. Same as Randy Moss, Marvin Harrison, pretty much every wide receiver that's had a great career...

 

I've seen a lot of great WRs play in my life. Jerry Rice, Jimmy Smith, Randy Moss, Larry Fitzgerald, Marvin Harrison, Allen Robinson, etc. The list goes on and on. Out of all of those guys the thing that always stuck out to me was that they got separation early in routes for the most part. Sure some of them were excellent at also going up and getting the ball when they're well covered (Moss and Robinson particularly stick out to me for this) and pushing a guy off somewhat is going to occur sometimes. However, I can't remember anyone I've ever seen that seemed to rely so much on pushing guys off of him at the catch point in his route as Hopkins. I just can't think of a guy that does what he does as being great. Lots of production, sure, but great isn't how I see him.

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