7 trades LA Rams increase 2020 NFL Draft picks and salary cap space

Trade 2 – Wide Receiver Brandin Cooks

Some believe that wide receiver Brandin Cooks will be able to bounce back in 2020. But even if he does, will it warrant his salary, where he is paid to be one of the NFL’s best?  Brandin Cooks will be compensated as the eighth wide receiver in 2020. The eighth-ranked receiver in 2019 was Amari Cooper, who caught 1,189 yards, eight touchdowns, and boasted a completion rate of 66.4 percent.

On a team like the LA Rams, who already have two other 1,000 yard receivers in Robert Woods and Cooper Kupp, that’s unlikely.  Realizing that Cooks’s upside is capped as long as the Rams have more versatile receivers Kuppp and Woods on the field, Cooks on the trading block makes sense.

Of course, which NFL team needs a speedster at wide receiver?  The New York Jets have speculated on a trade package for Brandin Cooks with a conditional pick. The reality is that the LA Rams need 2020 Draft picks, and the New York Jets need a wide receiver.

In this scenario, the LA Rams get the NY Jets round-three pick.  The Jets get the Rams’ 2021 6th round pick if Cooks fails to play in 50 percent of the Jets offensive snaps.

SALARY CAP FREED: (Post June 1) $12,000,0009