Early Wednesday morning, the Kansas City Chiefs made the kind of trade you would normally see on Madden, bringing in superstar wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins from the Tennessee Titans for a fourth-round pick.

At 32 years old, Hopkins will provide struggling quarterback Patrick Mahomes with some much-needed security in the passing game. The move comes after the Chiefs lost Rashee Rice to season-ending knee surgery and Marquise Hollywood Brown was limited to one game due to a shoulder injury.

The Chiefs needed receiver help in a bad way. And while Hopkins may not be the same player who lit up the league during his days with the Houston Texans, he has remained a reliable, veteran player at this later stage of his career.

One thing is certain. The Chiefs are very serious about this third straight Super Bowl.

They are the only undefeated team in the NFL. Yet they still acquire talented veterans to bolster their roster because they are self-aware enough to realize that the offense just didn’t look good despite their perfect mark on the season.

Entering Week 8 of the NFL season, Mahomes has more interceptions (eight) than touchdown passes (six), and you would have to believe that is largely due to the lack of playmaking on Kansas City’s roster.

While Hopkins is no spring chicken at 32, Travis Kelce certainly looks like his better days are behind him at 35. He’s had a slow start to the seasons before, so hopefully he can bounce back when it counts. Conversely, 21-year-old phenom Xavier Worthy looks like he has the tools to succeed in the NFL, but he is still a bit of a work in progress.

Besides those two players? The Chiefs would simply be playing with fire and relying on JuJu Smith-Schuster (who is also injured), Skyy Moore, Justin Watson and Mecole Hardman to take them on a deep playoff run in this loaded AFC.

The Buffalo Bills added Amari Cooper, and it paid off in his first game in uniform. The New York Jets were desperately trying to catch up in the AFC East by adding Davante Adams to reunite with Aaron Rodgers. The Chiefs needed to be buyers to compete in what will be a real arms race in the AFC.

Adding Hopkins for a fifth-round pick that could become a fourth-round pick based on his production is a no-brainer for the Chiefs. He was stuck with Will Levis and Mason Rudolph as his quarterbacks at Tennessee and caught just 15 passes for 173 yards and one touchdown on the season. Last year he caught 75 passes for 1,073 yards and seven touchdowns.

You can see there is still some talent there. The gas tank is not empty. And there’s no one better than Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid to get out what he has left.

Hopkins will give the Chiefs some much-needed security in their receiving room. The Chiefs give Hopkins a real chance to revive his career and his best chance at a Super Bowl since beating his Texans in the divisional round of the 2020 NFL Divisional Round.

This could be a match made in football heaven.