I highly doubt that if Hopkins said "yea, let's do it" that Beane wouldn't have worked every penny out to get him on the team.
The chiefs also have a cap hit for their top 3 (Mahomes, Kelce and Jones) that equal our top 7 this year (Allen, Diggs, Von, Morse, Hyde, Poyer, Johnson). The problem is next year when we are going to need to re-tool and wont have the room to do it. Hopkins 16m next year wouldn't fit even if they wanted it to.
Better off drafting guys instead of signing a guy for 2 years and then having to deal with the cap hit in 2024.