Should Rams Consider DeAndre Hopkins Trade?
Should the Los Angeles Rams consider getting in on the DeAndre Hopkins sweepstakes?
If this question had been posed a few weeks ago, it would have been an emphatic no, as the Rams likely had to part with a top-60 pick to acquire him. But now...
After the Brandin Cooks trade that sent him to the Dallas Cowboys from the Houston Texans in exchange for a 2023 fifth and a 2024 sixth-round pick, the market for a veteran wide-out seems to have dropped.
No, Cooks is not DeAndre Hopkins, but at 29 years old, he has been productive, recording six 1,000-yard receiving seasons since his rookie year in 2014.
Knowing the Rams' liking for blockbuster deals, they could still make one without paying the price that put them in the situation they are now without a first-round pick.
The Cooks deal has likely made it difficult for the Cardinals to command anything better than a day-two pick in any Hopkins trade, which for a team like the Rams that is potentially eyeing options to add around their offensive pillars, Matthew Stafford and Cooper Kupp, Hopkins should at least be looked into.
While the trading price could be a discount, his salary is not, as he is set to make $19 million in 2023, a figure that the Rams cannot afford. Financials would be a roadblock, as would the Cardinals being a divisional opponent.
But the idea of pairing Hopkins with Stafford and Kupp is intriguing, yet most likely just a pipedream.
Should the Rams look into a deal?
Absolutely.
Will the Rams get a deal done?
Likely not.
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