DeAndre hopkins want Tom Savage to start at QB for Texans.

Given the way his individual statistics plummeted in 2016, one might think DeAndre Hopkins would be eager to play with any new quarterback, let alone a college star picked 12th overall in April’s draft. The Texans wide receiver, though, is casting his vote for a holdover from last year’s squad, one who has thrown a total of 92 NFL passes.

That would be Tom Savage, a fourth-round pick by Houston in 2014 who made the first two starts of his career in 2016 after the implosion of Brock Osweiler. Savage has been taking the first-team reps in training camp while the Texans have Deshaun Watson, their first-round pick, working with the second team, and as far as Hopkins is concerned, that’s the way it should stay for the foreseeable future.

“If anybody should be a judge of quarterbacks, I’ve played with the most quarterbacks in NFL history throughout my first four years,” Hopkins said after Friday’s practice (via ESPN’s Dan Graziano). “So I put the stamp on Savage, and I think that’s all that needs to be said about that.”