{"id":25252,"date":"2025-02-11T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T08:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=25252"},"modified":"2025-02-11T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T08:45:41","slug":"cowboys-latest-hire-fuels-speculation-on-trade-for-80-million-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=25252","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys\u2019 Latest Hire Fuels Speculation on Trade for $80 Million Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<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-2191104977-e1739222823612.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-2191104977-e1739222823612.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2191104977-e1739222823612.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2191104977-e1739222823612.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys potential trade target Cooper Kupp\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1250\" data-img-load-time=\"1810\" \/><\/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>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\/\">Cowboys<\/a>\u00a0raised some eyebrows around the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/\">NFL<\/a>\u00a0this weekend when they managed to hire one of the best position coaches in the college game, Oregon receivers coach Junior Adams.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0ESPN\u2019s Todd Archer reported\u00a0on Sunday, \u201cThe Cowboys are expected to sign Oregon co-offensive coordinator\/WRs coach Junior Adams as their new WRs coach, according to a source. Second college coach to join staff with K-State\u2019s Conor Riley coming on board as OL coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s especially interesting about Adams is not just his reputation as a position coach. It\u2019s also his past history, which included working his way up around different school in the Northwest, including Eastern Washington, Boise State, Western Kentucky, and Washington before spending the last three years at Oregon, as the wide receivers coach and co-offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>It was his time at Eastern Washington where Adams coached a player who could now have an impact on the Cowboys in 2025\u2013a barely recruited native of Yakima, Washington named\u00a0Cooper Kupp.<\/p>\n<h2>Junior Adams &amp; Cooper Kupp Have History<\/h2>\n<p>In his time at Eastern Washington, Kupp broke just about ever FCS record on the books, totaling 428 catches for 6,464 yards in four years, and 73 touchdowns. All were records. Adams was his coach for his first two years at Eastern Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Kupp then went on to a stellar NFL career, which peaked with his \u201ctriple crown\u201d season in 2021, when he had 1,947 yards on 145 catches and 16 touchdowns. He has been a star in all eight seasons of his NFL career, all of which were spent with the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>But Kupp has struggled with injuries in his last three seasons, playing just 33 out of 51 games. It\u2019s worth nothing, they were 8-4 when he played this year, and 2-3 when he did not. Still, the Rams have decided to move on from Kupp, and he announced last week that the Rams were seeking to trade him.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where the Cowboys could get involved. They badly need a No. 2 receiver to go alongside\u00a0CeeDee Lamb, and Kupp\u2013if healthy\u2013could thrive in that role.<\/p>\n<h2>Cowboys Would Need Rams to Take Back $$$<\/h2>\n<p>Ultimately, it will be the Cowboys and Rams front offices that make the decision on what to do with Kupp\u2013the Rams are going to find the best package they can for him, and Dallas will determine whether it can fit his playing style and his salary into the roster.<\/p>\n<p>But Kupp is a big fan of Junior Adams, which is why the hiring was so interesting, at a time when Kupp can probably be had no the cheap and could prove to be a successful reclamation project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs hard as he can be on you, I think he sees more in people than they see in themselves a lot of the time,\u201d\u00a0Kupp once told the Seattle Times.\u00a0\u201cI think he sees the best in people as well, and he wants to bring that out. He definitely pushed me and really forced me to accept the fact that I could be greater than what my own thoughts were.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really credit a lot of my mindset and the way that I\u2019ve gone about my whole career \u2013 the mindset I\u2019ve taken into my training, into my preparation \u2013 I credit a lot of that to Coach Adams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kupp is on a\u00a0three-year, $80 million contract with 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. 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