The Houston Texans opened the NFL's free agency legal tampering period on Monday with a stunning trade package, dealing All-Pro star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins to the Arizona Cardinals for running back David Johnson and two draft picks.

It was an unbelievable trade that has lauded the Cardinals for swindling Houston; the Texans remain the butt of the NFL in the current moment.

One person tried to simulate the trade between the Texans and Cardinals on popular football video game Madden 20, instead finding the game did not let the trade happen.

The Twitter user replied a photo of the declined trade to Arizona's rising sophomore quarterback Kyler Murray, who celebrated the deal with the Texans by welcoming Hopkins, 27, to the team.

Murray, the former first-overall pick of last year's draft class and Heisman Trophy winner with Oklahoma, was the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2019, too, and now has more firepower lined up wide in Hopkins. The former Texans wideout is a four-time Pro-Bowler who has averaged more than 1,300 receiving yards on 105 catches and 10 touchdowns per season the last three years in the AFC South.

Hopkins led the league in touchdowns with 13 during the 2017 campaign with the Texans. He has been star quarterback Deshaun Watson's go-to, number-one option the past several years, developing into a top-five receiver in the league.

In return all the Cardinals had to give up to the Texans was Johnson, who has had better days behind him, a second-round pick in next month's draft, and a fourth-round pick in 2021. The framework for that deal was so unrealistic that Madden wouldn't accept the trade.

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