Cooper Kupp available for trade

[TheSpecialJuan]

Don't be fooled, the Rams will eventually release Kupp. 

We already have Thielen we don't need another aging WR

[Aussie Tank]

6 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Don't be fooled, the Rams will eventually release Kupp. 

We already have Thielen we don't need another aging WR

Well we do but not ones in the same role 

[jfra78]

Just draft a guy like Royals

[App Panther]

Kansas City Chief Cooper Kupp ain't coming here.

[WarPanthers89]

TO TRADE COOPEE KUPP, THE RAMS WIL LIKELY HAVE TO PAY A CHUNK OF HIS 2025 COMPENSATION.

When receiver Cooper Kupp removed his Rams helmet after the divisional round loss to the Eagles, it was likely for the last time. Now that the Rams are trying to trade him, they’ll have to be willing to absorb a sizable chunk of his 2025 pay in order to find a suitor.

Kupp is due to make $20 million in 2025, in the form of a $12.5 million salary and a $7.5 million roster bonus. Last year, $5 million of the bonus became fully guaranteed.

His days of making $20 million per year seem to be over. If a new team expects him to take less as part of a trade, all he has to do is refuse — and the end result is that the Rams will have to pay him the full $20 million or cut him and owe $5 million.

That could require the Rams to commit to paying more of the $20 million, in order to work out a trade. They’d basically be trading Kupp and cash/cap space for whatever they can get from a new team by way of one or more draft picks.

They also could pay Kupp the $7.5 million roster bonus and squat on his non-guaranteed salary pending a potential trade. That would make it harder for Kupp to find a landing spot, if he’s cut too late in the offseason to get a contract approaching his current market value.

In the end, the entire exercise could be aimed at getting Kupp to take less. If/when he realizes that no one else is willing to pay him more than what the Rams are willing to pay on a reduced deal, he might decide to take the $7.5 million plus whatever else the Rams offer for 2025. With a contract that currently runs through 2026, the revised agreement could rip up the final year, making him a free agent next March.

Kupp’s decision to go public with the Rams’ effort to trade him could make him less inclined to take less in order to stay, even if he’ll make less than that with a new team. One key fact as it relates to his contract is whether the $5 million guarantee has offset language. (Usually it does, but the Rams have been known to include language that removes the offset obligation.)

However it plays out, he’ll make $7.5 million simply by being on the team before the roster bonus is due. He might be willing to balk at an eventual request, from the Rams or a new team, to take less than $20 million and roll the dice on being cut. In the end, the Rams might have to kick in more than $7.5 million to get a team to take on the balance of his $20 million compensation package.

[fanpanther]

Kupp is a top 5wr if healthy thats a big if but would love to have him.  I lean towards tee being a product of burrow more than a top wr.  I would love to have kupp if he is cut and signed.  Trade wise just they wiuld want too much 5th or later sounds good. 

[toldozer]

11 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

I'm sure they were probably asking him to take a significant pay cut on an extension and he balked. He's still a good receiver when he's on the field but he's missed a lot of games over the last three seasons.

Did you watch him towards the end of the season and in the playoffs. If he's not washed he's very very close. Maybe he was still dealing with injuries and I'm wrong but he did not look like a guy that has another 2-3 years left

[Mistuh Jones]

for nothing higher than a 4th, and significant percentage of the salary that Rams pay for? Sure. 

[Icege]

Man... part of me wants to say yes to this, another is hesitant.

On the surface, I could see Thielen + day 3 selection for Kupp being enough to make something happen, but the Panthers would be taking on an additional $20M against the cap and losing a late round flier just to get 3yrs younger at the position (well... to be fair, 3yrs younger + producing at a high level).

On the flipside, Thielen has played more than well enough and Coker was getting a lot of work from the slot. Even when Thielen came back, Coker was getting a good bit of reps in the slot (though a LOT more outside than he had at the beginning while AT was out).

I think that we're going to see XL/Coker/AT/Chisena returning this season with a vet FA + rookie (drafted or UDFA) added to the group. Not sure that I see the team making a substantial move for a player, but Morgan has shown he's willing to wheel and deal.

[musicman]

If you can get Kupp for $5 to $8 mil, even $10 mil - he will make Bryce even better as he knows how to get open, catches everything and can block. 

[pantherclaw]

No thanks 

[MHS831]

11 hours ago, tukafan21 said:

Oh he most definitely isn't, especially when you add in his injury history, which is why I want nothing to do with him in FA, the cap room is more needed to be spent on the defense 

Here is how I see it:  Assuming we cut Tuttle and Ray (or let them go) and do not re-sign Mike Jackson or Shaq Thompson:

• Nose Tackle (0-3 technique)
• Nose Tackle depth
• Defensive End (Across from Brown; Robinson should be rotational)
• Edge  A player who can get after the QB and hold the edge.  We had too many cut backs for big gains.  This assuming we keep Clowney and Wonnum.
• Edge Strong side edge to play for a season behind Wonnum.
• Linebacker
• Starting #2 CB
• Starting Safety
• Starting Safety

Not to mention the Offense (depth QB, RB, WR, TE, Swing T, C-even though I think May earned the job, we need depth)

That is 15 players--more than a quarter of the roster (28%).  Morgan better get busy.

[Jay Roosevelt]

Love him as a player when healthy, but he has rarely been healthy in recent years.

[MHS831]

9 minutes ago, Jay Roosevelt said:

Love him as a player when healthy, but he has rarely been healthy in recent years.

Yeah.  I think trading for him taking on about $9m in salary (guestimate) is a luxury for a contender looking for a #2 to compete.  We have Kupp in Thielen.  I am so worried that we overpay for a free agent WR playing in a good system (like we did the Eagles RB) and he underperforms here.