'Epic for the NFL': Cook interested in teaming up with Hopkins - ESPN

Dalvin Cook, a free agent after his release from the Minnesota Vikings this month, has an interest in teaming up with DeAndre Hopkins on his next team.

Speaking Monday on «The Adam Schefter Podcast,» Cook said of Hopkins (also a free agent who remains unsigned), «If we end up on the same roster, that would be something epic for the NFL.»

Cook, who played six seasons for the Vikings, turns 28 in August and was set to take up $14.1 million in Minnesota's cap space for 2023. After trade talks simmered, the Vikings released the star running back.

Hopkins, 31, has been assessing his options as well since his release from the Arizona Cardinals last month. The star wide receiver visited with the Tennessee Titans and New England Patriots last week.

«I know his mindset, and I done play against D-Hop a numerous amount of times,» Cook told Schefter. «When I been with D-Hop, we done chill together, we done been around each other like, and it's like I kind of see the person that he is like, he want to win and that's what my mind at to.

»I want to go win. Like I said, the money gonna come and that's going to happen. But like as far as going to lift that [Vince Lombardi] Trophy up, he got the same mindset as me."

The Miami Dolphins, Cook's hometown team, are expected to have an interest in signing him, sources told Schefter last week, but coach Mike McDaniel danced around the question when it was posed to him last week during his club's minicamp.

«March 3, 1983, the day I was born. Now, we take a closer look at that date, and that, in fact, was not yesterday,» McDaniel told reporters, referring to the notion that he wasn't born yesterday. «You're not gonna get this guy. I'm Year 2.»

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