LA Rams 2020 NFL Free Agency and season begin quietly on time

The LA Rams 2020 NFL Free Agency, and the new NFL season, begins with a whimper for Rams’ fans

The LA Rams may or may not be happy with the recent news. We know that the coronavirus has played a major role in national sporting events, with huge impacts upon Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and the National Basketball Association. So far, the calendar has been very favorable to the National Football League.

But that notwithstanding, the NFL has confirmed the start of the 2020 NFL season will be on schedule.

You likely have already noticed the flurry of activity today. The official start of the 2020 NFL season actually happens on March 18, 2020. But two days prior, NFL teams are allowed to negotiate new contracts with projected NFL Free Agents.  Any news you read or see before that date is a tentative agreement which has been reached by both parties, but cannot be signed into a binding contract until the 2020 NFL season begins.

While the LA Rams have been silent so far, the NFC West is certainly commanding some NFL headliners. The rival San Francisco 49ers are reportedly trading defensive lineman DeForest Buckner to the Indianapolis Colts for their first-round pick at 13.

That move should be viewed as a positive to the LA Rams, who will no longer face the pro-bowler twice a year.  With the Colts’ first-round pick, the 49ers now have a pick at 13 and 31 in round one.  Since the 49ers do not pick on day two, the belief is that the team will target one of the top wide receivers at 13, and use their 31st pick to trade back into day two.

The NFC West rival Arizona Cardinals were headlining the NFL earlier in the day, when the team somehow persuaded the Houston Texans to trade WR Deandre Hopkins and a fourth-round pick to the Cardinals for RB David Johnson, a 2020 second-round pick, and a 2021 fourth-round pick.

In the Cardinals exchange, the addition of Hopkins to the Cardinals receiving corps will make them far more dangerous in 2020.

So far, the pace of events has been steady. But the LA Rams have been noticeably absent from any breaking news stories today. That could change in a moment’s notice, so stay tuned.