Chiefs star DeAndre Hopkins' incredible tribute to his late father at Super Bowl 2025

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins paid a touching tribute to his precocious begetter with a agelong mink overgarment for his entranceway to Super Bowl 59.

The prima receiver has been a immense portion of the Chiefs tally to a 3rd consecutive rubric crippled aft helium was acquired from the Tennessee Titans successful an October trade.

He arrived to the crippled wearing a mink overgarment that belonged to his father, who died successful a car mishap successful 1992 erstwhile Hopkins was conscionable 5 months old. 

'My dada was [a] person of the family, person of our community,' Hopkins said of Harris Steve Hopkins earlier this week. 

'So it means a batch conscionable being capable to person a small spot of him with me.' 

According to ESPN, he'd promised himself helium would deterioration the overgarment connected either his wedding time oregon his archetypal quality successful the Super Bowl, whichever came first. 

'Obviously I'm not married. I'm going to deterioration my daddy's mink jacket,' Hopkins said astatine Super Bowl Opening Night. 

Hopkins told Fox4KC that helium had to 'get it seamed and worked connected a small bit' to person it acceptable for gameday.  

The receiver often honors his mother, Sabrina Greenlee, by giving her a shot whenever helium scores a touchdown.  

Kansas City traded for DeAndre Hopkins midway done the season, backmost erstwhile the two-time defending Super Bowl champs had mislaid wide receivers Marquise Brown and Rashee Rice to injuries, and the anticipation was that the three-time All-Pro could assistance to stabilize a presumption radical that had struggled for years.

They could lone person hoped for what would transpire implicit the adjacent 3 months.

Along with giving Patrick Mahomes a susceptible walk catcher, Hopkins - and Brown - began to stock their cognition with Xavier Worthy, and the effect has been a monolithic measurement guardant for the first-round prime headed into the postseason.

'I'm knowing the crippled more, being astir guys who person done it against bully opponents,' Worthy said this week, arsenic the Chiefs prepared to play Houston successful the divisional circular Saturday astatine Arrowhead Stadium.

'Understanding their cognition connected however to bash it has helped maine to evolve,' Worthy said.

Over his archetypal 9 games, Worthy caught conscionable 20 passes for 246 yards and 3 scores. 

In his adjacent 7 games, which astir coincides with the accomplishment of Hopkins successful Kansas City, the fastest wide receiver ever to timepiece a 40-yard dash clip astatine the NFL scouting harvester has caught 39 passes for 392 yards and 3 much touchdowns.

'D-Hop is truly route-savvy. Played successful the league for a agelong time,' Worthy said. 

'Hollywood Brown, a feline benignant of akin to me, helping maine to larn to tally routes against bigger guys. They benignant of gave maine immoderate techniques to use.'

What techniques, exactly?

'I can't truly archer you oregon you'll cognize my tricks,' Worthy said with a smile.

More importantly, the Texans and the remainder of the NFL would cognize them.

It's important to enactment that Hopkins and Worthy are connected one-year contracts. They had nary work to assistance the Chiefs beyond this season, and could alternatively person gone astir their ain business. 

But some are trying to gain their archetypal Super Bowl rings, too, and by pouring into Worthy, they person amended equipped Kansas City to marque different heavy postseason run.