Chiefs players go bananas like all of us over DeAndre Hopkins Hail Mary catch

Chiefs players went bananas on Twitter like the rest of us over DeAndre Hopkins’ Hail Mary catch.

By season’s end, it will likely go down as the single most exciting play of the 2020 regular season. When DeAndre Hopkins came down with the game-winning grab on a Hail Mary pass from Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray, the wide receiver not only put the Cards on top over the Buffalo Bills in an unexpected win, but he did so against three well-positioned Buffalo defenders. It was the stuff dreams are made of.

It’s not a surprise, then, that plenty of players on the Kansas City Chiefs went bananas just like the rest of us. Personally, I rewatched the highlights a dozen times from every possible angle I could get my hands on just to make sure and see what I thought I saw. The whole thing was just unbelievable—from Murray’s elusiveness outside the pocket while scrambling to give his receivers time to get downfield to the actual leaping catch itself.

In case you missed the play and ensuing conversation, here’s a replay of the Week 10 matchup that could prove very important for playoff positioning for both teams. For the Cardinals, it kept them in the NFC West race alongside the L.A. Rams and Seattle Seahawks. For the Bills, it narrowed their gap in the AFC East while the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins are showing signs of surging in the second half.

For a crazy perspective, just look at this photo? What more could the Bills have done? (That’s a rhetorical question, by the way)

Chiefs players had good reason for responding the way they did on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/cheetah/status/1328134725978951681

Those are four of the Chiefs biggest stars and they are all in awe of the talent of Nuk Hopkins, arguably the best overall wide receiver in the game (although we’d still stick with Tyreek on that note).

Even former players got into the excitement.

Others were still scratching their heads that the Houston Texans ever traded Hopkins in the first place—let alone for pennies on the dollar.

Tyrann Mathieu had questions of a different kind.

The catch electrified fans and players both in Week 10 and pushed the Bills’ hopes for a race toward a top seed likely out of reach with such a rough road ahead in their own division. Now it appears to be a two-team race between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Chiefs.

Hats off to Nuk for not only that catch but the outcome as well.