Cooper Kupp will be in a different uniform next season. The open receiver revealed on February 3 that the Los Angeles Rams put it in the commercial block. According to reports, RAMS are not interested in reworking the KUPP contract to keep it close. Puka Nacua has emerged clearly as the main reception option of the Rams.
The desire to move from Kupp should not be a surprise. There were rumors that Kupp was available in an exchange earlier last season. Commercial speculation ended when the Rams recovered from a 1-4 start.
KUPP is two years old for a value of $ 39.58 million in the extension of the three -year contract and $ 80.35 million, with an average of $ 26,783,333 per year, signed in June 2022. His contract had to be addressed after a 2021 season in which he became the first player to win the triple crown from Steve Smith in 2005 by leading simultaneously The League at receptions (145), Yardas (1,947) and receive touchdowns (16).
KUPP is scheduled to earn $ 20 million in 2025 and $ 19.78 million in 2026 with the respective salary stop numbers of $ 29.78 million and $ 27.33 million. The $ 20 million consists of a base salary of $ 12.5 million and a bonus of the list of the fifth day of the league of $ 7.5 million of the year of the league that is due on March 16, where $ 5 million of these $ 7.5 million are fully guaranteed without displacement.
It is possible that the Rams be assumed part of the 2025 salary of KUPP to facilitate a trade. KUPP will be 32 years in June and has had difficulty staying healthy since he was the offensive player of the year of NFL 2021 and the MVP LVI of the Super Bowl. 18 regular season games have been lost in the last three seasons with ankle injuries and hamstrings. KUPP has averaged 67 trapped for 753 yards with almost six touchdowns in 11 games during this period.
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A high ankle sprain cost KUPP five games in 2024. He had 67 receptions, 710 yards receiving and six tauchdown trapped in 12 games last season.
Several successful older wide receptors (Keenan Allen, Brandin Cooks, Amari Cooper, Stefon Diggs and Deandre Hopkins) will be available in free agency. Davante Adams and Tyler Lockett are expected to be low salary cover. There is also competition in the commercial market for a large receiver, since the San Francisco 49ers have granted Debo Samuel, who is 29 years old, permission to find a commercial partner.
It is not unprecedented that the Rams eat salary to move an open receiver. The Rams waited until after the list bonus on the fifth day list of the Robert Woods League guaranteed $ 3.5 million of the year of the League in 2022 before exchanging the Tennessee Titans. Woods obtained the full $ 13.5 million that was scheduled to win in 2022. The Titans felt comfortable paying Woods the remaining $ 10 million, although he was recovering from a left ACL break that occurred in the mid -2021 season.
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The Rams were motivated to get rid of Allen Robinson after a disastrous debut season of 2022 in Los Angeles, where a foot injury limited it to 10 games. The will of the Rams to pay $ 10.25 million of the compensation of $ 15.25 million 2023 of Robinson made possible its April 2023 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Robinson rework his contract in relation to trade. The other $ 5 million by 2023 did not touch, but their 2024 salary was reduced to $ 10 million of $ 15.75 million.
The Rams should not have a problem responsible for the bonus of the complete list of $ 7.5 million kupp in an exchange due to Robinson and Woods. The Rams would have $ 24.76 million of dead money, a salary charge for a player who is no longer on the list of a team, in this case. There would be $ 5.02 million of capitalization savings 2025, since the Rams would no longer face the number of 2025 CAP of $ 29.78 million kupp. The Rams actually lost $ 3.4 million of capitalization space 2023 in Robinson’s trade.
KUPP compensation potential
Only a team like the New England patriots with a large amount of 2025 salary space and an obvious need in the open receiver could be willing to assume the total salary of $ 20 million kupp 2025. There would be $ 17.26 million in 2025 dead money With the Rams collecting $ 12.52 million from 2025 Cap Space in this scenario.
The Rams should not expect more than one draft selection of day 3 (fourth to the seventh round) if you can find a suitor based on the offices of older open receptors in recent years. The Los Angeles Chargers received a selection of the fourth 2024 Round of the Chicago Bears for Allen last March when he was close to 32 years. The Bears were well paying Allen their total salary of $ 23.1 million 2024. Allen left a 2023 Pro Bowl season in which he had 108 receptions for 1,243 yards with seven touchdowns.
The Buffalo tickets felt comfortable with $ 31,096 million in 2024 dead money to treat Diggs, a selection of the fourth 2024 round and a selection of fifth round of 2025 for the Houston Texans for a second round of 2025 last March . The Diggs contract was reworked in relation to trade. Its years of contract from 2025 to 2027 worth $ 56,102,941 were replaced by 2025 to 2028 years of contract automatically canceling on the 23rd before the year of League 2025 (February 17). Diggs, who turned 31 at the end of November, also received an increase by 2024, where he earned $ 22.52 million instead of $ 19,005 million.
The 2023 season was a story of two for Diggs. He caught 49 passes for 620 yards and five touchdowns in the first six Buffalo games. Diggs had five 100 -yard games in the process. In the last 11 games, Diggs had no 100 -yard game and averaged 51.2 yards for game reception. The act of disappearance continued in the playoffs where Diggs had 10 receptions for 73 yards without touchdowns in two games.
There were four older exchanges of older open receptors after the regular season 2024 began that have some relevance. A 30 -year -old coope was acquired by the Bills of the Cleveland Browns for a third -round selection of 2025 in mid -October last season. There was also an exchange of late round selections with the Bills who obtained a selection of sixth round of 2025 and a selection of the seventh 2026 round that is directed to the Browns.
Almost at the same time as the Cooper Trade, the Raiders of Las Vegas accommodated a commercial application of Adams from then 32 years, to the bosses of Kansas City at the end of October for a conditional selection of the fifth round of 2025 as the date approached mid -season exchange limit. Mike Williams, 30, who had not returned to form after tear the LCA in his left knee during the first part of the 2023 season, went to the Pittsburgh Steelers of the jets for a selection of fifth round of 2025 on the date Commerce limit.
The Dallas Cowboys obtained the chefs, who did not want Contract, including a fully guaranteed $ 18 million 2023 base salary. The Texans turned $ 6 million of the $ 35 million into a signature bonus prior to trade, so the cowboys were responsible for the remaining $ 29 million.
Cooks, who played the 2023 season at 30, renegotiated his contract after the exchange. The remaining $ 29 million became a two -year contract and $ 20 million. Cooks had $ 12 million fully guaranteed in 2023 and $ 8 million in 2024 under this agreement. Including the $ 6 million that the Texans paid before the operation, the cooks earned $ 26 million during those two years. He caught 57 passes for 699 yards with three touchdowns in 13 games during the 2022 season.
The Rams did not get much in exchange for Robinson and Woods. It was just an exchange of 2023 selects of seventh round in Robinson’s trade. Robinson with the worst two seasons of his career at that time in 2021 and 2022 decreased his commercial value. Woods went to a sixth round of 2023 thanks to his knee injury.
What the Rams can do
An acquirer team may want to renegotiate the KUPP contract. The new team that pays KUPP the remaining $ 12.5 million by 2025 would not be unreasonable if the Rams ate their list bonus based on the mechanics of some of these other trades. KUPP essentially has a de facto clause without trade if a renegotiated contract is a requirement for an acquirer equipment.
It would not be surprising if the Rams end up releasing KUPP given the supply of older open receptors and the history of injuries and the production of KUPP in the last three seasons. Initially, the Rams will have $ 22.26 million in 2025 dead money, where $ 7.52 million of capitalization room 2025 is created releasing KUPP before the last $ 2.5 million of their list bonus of $ 7.5 million becomes a payment obligation On March 16.
KUPP would surely obtain a contract from another team for more than $ 5 million. Compensation with the bonus guarantee of the list means that the Rams would obtain the first $ 5 million of the next KUPP contract. The final result would be $ 17.26 million in dead money, where Rams earn a total for $ 12.52 million in the limit related to the launch of KUPP.
There would be some parallel to Hopkins if there is no exchange. Hopkins signed a two -year agreement and $ 26 million worth $ 33.5 million through titans at the beginning of the training camp in 2023 after Arizona cardinals released him two months before at the end of May. I was 31 years old at that time.
Hopkins had just passed through two challenging seasons in which he could not reach 1,000 yards receiving. He had 42 receptions, 572 yards who received and eight catches of TouchDown in 2021. An lesion in the hamstrings and the torn right MCl Limited Hopkins to 10 games. The first six games of the 2022 season was lost serving a suspension for violating the substance policy that improves the performance of the NFL. Hopkins caught 64 trapped for 717 yards with three touchdowns in nine games after returning from his punishment.
