{"id":23585,"date":"2025-02-05T02:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23585"},"modified":"2025-02-05T02:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:28:21","slug":"cowboys-trade-for-rams-80-million-star-tabbed-a-potential-win-now-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23585","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Trade for Rams\u2019 $80 Million Star Tabbed a Potential \u2018Win-Now\u2019 Move.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2194337019-e1738676637111.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2194337019-e1738676637111.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2194337019-e1738676637111.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2194337019-e1738676637111.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys potential trade target Cooper Kupp\" width=\"780\" height=\"440\" data-img-load-time=\"1024\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1126\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Cowboys potential trade target Cooper Kupp<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now that they\u2019ve mostly gotten their coaching staff settled under rookie coach Brian Schottenheimer, the\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0have a long list of needs heading into the 2025 season if they plan to get back into contention in what has become an increasingly difficult NFC East.<\/p>\n<p>The offensive line is going to need a boost, as it is likely that\u00a0Zack Martin\u00a0departs and last year\u2019s unit was both too young and not deep enough. The defensive line, too, is an ongoing problem, and\u00a0Osa Odighizuwa\u00a0is heading into free agency. The Cowboys need a running back and will have to rebuild the quarterback room behind\u00a0Dak Prescott.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they\u2019ll need to give what might be a record contract to edge rusher\u00a0Micah Parsons.<\/p>\n<p>But the pressing problem the Cowboys have is among its outside playmakers. Dallas has one star on the roster, and that\u2019s CeeDee Lamb. One of the critical problems for this team last season was that there wasn\u2019t really a No. 2 receiver on the roster, allowing teams to overload on Lamb.<\/p>\n<p>Brandin Cooks was mostly injured and, at 31, not that effective when he did play. He is a free agent now. The Cowboys have depth at receiver, but they do not have a top-tier 1-2 punch. But on Monday, an announcement out of L.A. might have changed that.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Trade Would Make Sense<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s because Cooper Kupp of the Rams took to social media, well ahead of the start of the NFL\u2019s new year next month, and announced that Los Angeles was trying to trade him, and doing so against his wishes.<\/p>\n<p>And immediately, the Cowboys came into focus as an ideal landing spot for Kupp, an All-Pro and Super Bowl champ who turns 32 in June. He could be the No. 2 option behind Lamb. He played 12 games and had 67 catches for 710 yards last season.<\/p>\n<p>At CBS Sports,\u00a0it was noted, \u201cDallas needs some reinforcements around\u00a0CeeDee Lamb, especially with\u00a0Brandin Cooks\u00a0slated to hit free agency. Kupp\u2019s addition would free things up for Lamb while also giving\u00a0Dak Prescott\u00a0another established weapon to throw to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0at USA Today, \u201cKupp going to Dallas feels like such a Cowboys move. Jerry Jones wants to win now, and Kupp pairs well with wide receiver CeeDee Lamb. Dallas desperately needs production from that second receiver spot, and Kupp could provide that and then some.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cooper Kupp Does Not Want to Be Traded<\/h2>\n<p>Kupp is on a\u00a0three-year, $80 million contract\u00a0with the Rams, and that figures to be a sticking point going forward. The Cowboys, certainly, won\u2019t pay him the $20 million he is due in 2025\u2014they can\u2019t fit that into their salary cap. If he is to be traded, he would either need to renegotiate his deal or have the Rams eat a portion of his payout.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0NFL Network insider Mike Garofalo\u00a0pointed out, \u201cCooper Kupp is due $20 million in 2025 \u2014 a $7.5 million roster bonus payable in March ($5 million fully guaranteed) and a $12.5 million base salary. Barring a renegotiation, a team making a trade with the\u00a0#Rams would assume that money and $19.85 in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kupp pulled a surprise announcement on the Rams\u2019 efforts to trade him on Monday, writing, \u201cI was informed that the team will be seeking a trade immediately and will be working with me and my family to find the right place to continue competing for championships. I don\u2019t agree with the decision and always believed it was going to begin and end in LA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Cowboys potential trade target Cooper Kupp Now that they\u2019ve mostly gotten their coaching staff settled under rookie coach Brian Schottenheimer, the\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0have a long list of needs&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cowboys Trade for Rams\u2019 $80 Million Star Tabbed a Potential \u2018Win-Now\u2019 Move.. - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=23585\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cowboys Trade for Rams\u2019 $80 Million Star Tabbed a Potential \u2018Win-Now\u2019 Move.. - 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