Dallas Cowboys lead 3 biggest losers at the 2022 NFL trade deadline
2. Los Angeles Rams
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The Los Angeles Rams are out of lifelines. There is no phone-a-friend, there is no 50-50, there is no “ask the audience”. They are facing a million-dollar question and they simply don’t have the answer. The reigning NFL champions are drifting into borderline irrelevance when it comes to teams with contender status around the NFL as we approach the halfway point of the season.
It looks like everyone else in the NFC West got better in the last couple of weeks except the Rams.
- Seattle is seeing rookie RB Kenneth Walker emerge into a superstar
- Arizona added Robbie Anderson and got DeAndre Hopkins back
- San Francisco added RB Christian McCaffrey
The Rams apparently offered multiple first-round picks to the Panthers for pass rusher Brian Burns, but that offer was turned down because the Rams don’t have any first-round picks in 2023, only 2024 and 2025 thanks to the Matthew Stafford trade.
Not that the Rams are in bad shape — they just won a Super Bowl — but it’s possible looking back to the 2022 offseason that they relied too much on in-season trades and that has now come back to bite them a little bit here.
The Panthers didn’t take the bait on the Burns offer. The Rams couldn’t strike a deal for even Robert Quinn who went for a mid-round pick with the Bears taking on the majority of his salary. They didn’t make a competitive enough offer for Bradley Chubb, if they made an offer at all.
The lack of edge rush presence will haunt the Rams over the course of the season, and could even prevent this team from making the playoffs when all is said and done.