Introduction: Source: Chiefs complete

The Titans and Chiefs are working to finalize
a deal that would send wide receiver
DeAndre Hopkins to Kansas City,
league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

The Titans get a 2025 fifth-round pick that
will become a fourth-round pick if the Chiefs
make the Super Bowl and Hopkins plays 60% of Kansas City’s snaps.

Tennessee will receive $2.5 million of Hopkins’ remaining $8 million salary this season. Trading is expected to close on Wednesday.

Head coach Andy Reid declined to acknowledge the deal before Wednesday’s practice, saying only that general manager Brett Veach is “handling everything.” When asked about the business, Reed replied with a slight smile, “I have no idea.”

The Chiefs needed a wide receiver after Rushey Rice underwent season-ending surgery in Week 4 for a right knee injury. The team lost Marquise “Hollywood” Brown to a shoulder injury, and JuJu Smith-Schuster suffered a hamstring injury last week that kept him out of the game against the Las Vegas Raiders.

Hopkins, a 12-year veteran,

Is in the final season of a two-year contract with the Titans that runs through July 2023. He suffered a torn ACL in the offseason but recovered by the start of the season.

The Chiefs traded McCall Hardman to the New York Jets last year. Hardman scored the winning touchdown in overtime of Super Bowl III against the San Francisco 49ers.

The move marks a change of plans for the 1-5 Titans, who traded linebacker Ernest Jones IV to the Seattle Seahawks on Wednesday for linebacker Jerome Baker and fourth-round pick Brian Callahan.

“That’s the reality of NFL business and we didn’t want to be in the position we were in,” Callahan said. This happens at the turning points of the season. This is the cycle and how it works. And we’re now at a point where we’re trying to find a way out of this situation.”