The Baltimore Ravens are gearing up for the 2025 NFL season, which features plenty of new and returning faces within the organization. Several players, coaches, and front-office members are crucial to the team’s success this season.
Every day from now until the start of training camp, we’re counting down our 30 Most Important Ravens for the 2025 season. We’ll recap their 2024 season, look ahead to 2025, and tackle the most significant question facing them this year.
Next up is DeAndre Hopkins, a veteran wide receiver and future Hall of Famer who can help make the Ravens' passing game more efficient in the biggest moments.
Background
Position: WR
Age: 33
Experience: 13-year pro
2025 cap hit: $2,004,000
2024 recap
Hopkins posted his seventh 1,000-yard season in 2023 with the Tennessee Titans and was still productive last year.
Following a trade from the Tennessee Titans to the Kansas City Chiefs in October, he caught 41 passes for 437 yards and four touchdowns for the Chiefs over the final 10 regular-season games. Hopkins added three receptions during the postseason and caught a touchdown pass and a two-point conversion for the Chiefs during their loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX.
2025 outlook
The move gives the Ravens a legit third option at wide receiver and one of the NFL's most efficient trios of pass catchers. Hopkins, most importantly, provides quarterback Lamar Jackson with an elite red zone target.
Biggest question: Can Hopkins take Ravens' passing game to bigger heights?
Of the 70 wide receivers who've had 500 targets since 2013, Hopkins has the fifth-lowest drop rate at 1.6%. Last season, the Ravens' wide receivers ranked 30th in the NFL with a 5.1% drop rate.
With the opposing defenses likely to lock in on Derrick Henry even more in 2025, Hopkins provides the Ravens with an elite pass catcher who'll produce in the most challenging moments. Hopkins has been one of his generation's most productive wide receivers, having been selected to five Pro Bowls and named first-team All-Pro three times. Since entering the league in 2013, his 984 receptions lead all wide receivers, and his 12,965 receiving yards tops all players.
30 Most Important Ravens of 2025
We’re counting down our 30 Most Important Ravens of 2025. Check back every day leading up to the start of training camp.
No. 30 QB Cooper Rush, No. 29 OLB Tavius Robinson, No. 28 Keaton Mitchell, No. 27 Trenton Simpson, No. 26 Mike Green, No. 25 Travis Jones, No. 24 Daniel Faalele, No. 23 Andrew Vorhees, No. 22 Patrick Ricard,
