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Titans Star WR Not Concerned About Slow Start
Tennessee Titans star receiver DeAndre Hopkins has been nearly invisible to start the 2024 regular season.
The veteran pass-catcher has played just 46 snaps across the first two games while totaling two catches for 17 yards on three targets. Of course, working his way back from a torn MCL suffered in the offseason has been a major factor in Hopkins’ slow start, but 17 yards in two weeks is certainly still surprising for the three-time All-Pro.
Amid an 0-2 start, Calvin Ridley has emerged as the team’s top receiver with seven catches for 127 yards and a touchdown. Hopkins isn’t worried about the lack of targets at this point in the season and is waiting patiently for his chance to shine once again.
“When my number is called, hopefully I can make a play,” Hopkins said, per the team website. “It’s football. We have great players in this locker room, great players in this offense. So, I am not complaining, I am not worried about that. It’s two games. Whenever my number is called, whatever I can do. … I love football, so if I am out there for one play, 10 plays, I am grateful to be on the field to do what I love. Obviously, I had an injury a while ago. I feel good, and hopefully I can go out there and put it all together.”
Last season, Hopkins showed that his fit with the Titans can work. In 17 games, he tallied 75 catches for 1,057 yards and seven touchdowns. This included three 100-yard performances, including a 140-yard performance in a 23-16 Week 5 loss to the Indianapolis Colts.
It marked his first 1,000-yard season since 2020 with the Arizona Cardinals and seventh of his career.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – We’re experiencing our hottest weather since summer 2025.
The hottest weather of the year is having a major impact on Middle Tennesseans. Temperatures have soared well above average during the afternoon and remained unusually high at night for several days. That’s caused thousands across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky to temporarily change the way they go about everyday life. The heat has been so significant that temperatures have actually been in record territory.
For example, this past Sunday, Nashville nearly tied the highest minimum temperature ever for the date — 80° set in 1936. Nashville’s low on Sunday was 79.
As for high temperatures, while it was easily the hottest day of the year on Tuesday, Nashville missed that day’s record by nine degrees.
We’ll be closer on Wednesday, missing it by just six degrees.
There’s an even closer approach in line for Thursday. Our forecast for Nashville is 98°. The record high temperature is 101.
Cooler weather will eventually take over. By early next week, we expect highs to return to more seasonable levels — the low 90s.
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Former Tennessee baseball pitcher Garrett Stallings was called up by the Milwaukee Brewers on June 30.
Stallings, 28, likely will make his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds on June 30 in the second game of the Brewers’ four-game homestand.
Stallings played at Tennessee from 2017 to 2019 in the early years of Tony Vitello’s stint at the Vols’ head coach. He earned a starting role as a freshman and became the ace by his junior season.
In 2019, the Los Angeles Angels selected Stallings in the fifth round of the MLB draft. He bounced around in the minors before landing firmly in Triple-A with the Norfolk Tides, and later the Brewers’ affiliate Nashville Sounds, in 2024.
Stallings posted a 3-3 record with the Sounds in 2026 with a 3.45 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 62⅔ innings.
He will be the 54th player in Tennessee history to reach the major leagues and the 12th since 2020. He will join left-hander Garrett Crochet (2020); right-hander Ben Joyce (2023); infielder Andre Lipcius (2023); IF Trey Lipscomb (2024); outfielder Jordan Beck (2024); RHP Seth Halvorsen (2024); RHP Chase Dollander (2025); RHP Blade Tidwell (2025); INF Christian Moore (2025); OF Drew Gilbert (2025); and RHP Chad Dallas (2026).
Dallas made his debut for the Toronto Blue Jays on June 4.
Wynton Jackson covers high school sports for Knox News. Email: wynton.jackson@knoxnews.com
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