Rams looking to trade Van Jefferson (Traded to Atl)

[TheTackle]

Just putting it out there. If we sign big money FAs over the next two years we will not receive any comp picks. Is Snead planning for more draft capital so they continue the trend of betting on numbers to gain hits?

 

[Ramhusker]

YAY! Now we can go sign Kaepernick!!!!!!!

 

[dieterbrock]

Thought on Overthecap.com it said we'd only save a few hundred thousand.

It really depends on whether they had accounted for the $410k of signing bonus. I figure that was already in the cap number and the near 1 mill is cap "savings"

 

[Gandalf]

And so it's done. The usual trade.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

Sorry if it’s already been posted.

The Rams save nearly 1 million in cap space with the trade Van Jefferson. Add the savings with Akers and extending/restructure? Of Higbee. The Rams now have 6.1 million in cap space.

So they have some room to trade for a vet if they wanted to or a good one becomes available.

 

[So Ram]

Sorry if it’s already been posted.

The Rams save nearly 1 million in cap space with the trade Van Jefferson. Add the savings with Akers and extending/restructure? Of Higbee. The Rams now have 6.1 million in cap space.

So they have some room to trade for a vet if they wanted to or a good one becomes available.

YEP !! Makes sense & they know they have issues with a pass rush.

 

[RamWoodie]

I hope the main reason Is to get some pass rush help. I don't like the trade if this is all to it. Jefferson frees up about 1 mil.

I'm thinking it may go with a move to get AD some help by freeing up money to make a move to help the DLine.

 

[TexasRam]

He gone.

 

[den-the-coach]

You need a Lexus GX 550!

Nah, wife drives a Durango & I drive an Explorer, we try to keep it American.

 

[Giles]

Nah, wife drives a Durango & I drive an Explorer, we try to keep it American.

The durango RT is amazing. I love mine.

 

[snackdaddy]

I never expected much for Van. Pretty sure it wasn't so much about getting something in return as it was about saving a little cap money and moving on from a guy they didn't need.

I also think they also wanted to do him right. With Kupp, Puka and Tutu he wasn't going to get many opportunities. He wasn't going to have much value in free agency. Now he's got a chance at improving that this season.

 

[fanotodd]

Wouldn’t we get a comp pick if we hold on to him and he then signs elsewhere when his contract expires at the end of the season?

This is the position I have always taken; plus, it’s a long season and injuries happen.
But two things come to mind:

1) every game he sits on the bench, his value decreases.
2) if he walks into McVay’s office and asks to be dealt, the Rams, being the class act they’ve become, would more than likely accommodate.

 

[Lunchbox]

After this play to open the season....


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ppRoAJFYY


I kind of figured he would lose Stafford's confidence. That kind of play is not going to bring back a big return in a trade regardless of play in previous seasons.

 

[Mojo Ram]

I don’t beat up on too many Rams players. But…

Van is soft. He needs a perfect ball and space to get the ball, he disappears when the team needs “others” to step up, he’s useless in off schedule drills, I don’t sense he’s much of a competitor.

Good luck and goodbye.

 

[OregonRamsFan]

In Van’s defense he probably hasn’t slept since his baby was born last SB. A man needs his sleep. Lol.

 

[Allen2McVay]

Wouldn’t we get a comp pick if we hold on to him and he then signs elsewhere when his contract expires at the end of the season?

Not necessarily. And, probably not in this case.

The comp picks are based on a formula that considers the net additions (players added) and subtractions (players lost). It considers the number of free agents added and lost; and the contracts they receive.

In recent years, the Rams have lost players in free agency but signed very few. As a result, they have been awarded comp picks because their losses far exceeded their additions.

Consider last off-season when the Rams lost Gaines, Gay, Rapp, Long, Hill, Edwards, Mayfield, Robinson and others. Who did they sign in free agency? No one! All their additions (Witherspoon, Rypien, Michel, Robinson and the two Johnsons) were signed after the Draft; and, therefore do not apply to the comp pick formula.

So the Rams will get comp picks for the 2024 Draft ... three or four but they will be late round picks because none of the ex-Rams received big-$ contracts.

Now consider the up-coming 2024 free agency. The Rams will have cap space and figure to be active. Meanwhile, they do not have big-ticket players set to leave via free agency. Their additions should easily exceed their losses. That means no comp picks in 2025. Jefferson was not going to change that.

 

[Mojo Ram]

I’d rather have the less talented Sko in there battling defenders for the ball and pushing guys around in the run gm

 

[thirteen28]

I thought the pick swap in the Akers/MN trade were 2026 draft choices.

Good point.

 

[Allen2McVay]

Soonest would be 2025 draft, however, right?

With cap space, the Rams figure to be active in Free Agency in 2024 but they don't have many significant players scheduled to be free agents (Fuller, Dotson and maybe Shelton).

As a result, their net additions (free agents signed) should easily exceed players lost (Rams free agents signing elsewhere). The comp pick formula considers both number of players lost and especially the size of contracts. Accordingly, the Rams don't figure to get comp picks for the 2025 Draft based on 2024 free agency.

Now, they should get 3 or 4 comp picks for the 2024 Draft based on the 2023 Free Agency Period when the Rams lost a ton of players but were the only team in the NFL not to sign a single free agent.

 

[gabriel18]

How 'bout this guy?

Love Puka , but I don’t think he’s a guy like Metcalf , Pickens , or Adam’s. That’s what I meant by a big body that can win in a 50/50 situation.