Cooper Kupp is coming back home to play for the Seattle Seahawks.
Cooper Kupp is moving on from the Los Angeles Rams to play for the Seattle Seahawks. The free agent wideout has signed a deal with the Seahawks for 3 years and $45 million.Â
Much will be made about what impact this has on Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Njigba was the WR-9 in 2024. He logged 100 receptions, 1,130 receiving yards, and was No.12 in targets with 137. Cooper Kupp is at the stage where he is going to need to be moved around the formation with favorability towards the slot role. This poses a problem for JSN as he was No.1 in slot snaps last season with 701.Â
This is also a head-scratching move as Kupp will be 32 when the 2025 season starts. From an efficiency standpoint last season, Kupp was 60th in fantasy points per target at 1.75 and 65th in expected points added at +23.5. While Matthew Stafford can support multiple alpha weapons in Puka Nacua and Cooper Kupp with optimism towards Stafford supporting Nacua and Davante Adams in 2024, Sam Darnold does not inspire the same level of confidence in supporting both JSN and Cooper Kupp.Â
As this move is puzzling from a redundancy standpoint at the wide receiver position, it also brings questions about the stage in which the Seahawks are as far as team building towards being a winning team. Adding an aging, oft injured receiver who will be 32 is not ideal. The Rams have won the ‘sign a 32-year-old’ sweepstakes while the Seahawks are running in place.Â
The Rams and Seahawks are seemingly headed in different directions. While real NFL circumstances are to be noted, take advantage of any dip in JSN’s dynasty stock and best ball ADP by scooping him up anywhere you can!
Author: Jeremiah Retzlaff (@coachretzlaff1)
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Wide Receiver Davante Adams has signed a 2 year deal worth $46 Million, $26 Million guaranteed with the Los Angeles Rams.
Legendary wide reciever Davante Adams was rumored to join quarterback Aaron Rodgers in LA with the Rams. That was when it seemed that Matthew Stafford was leaving the Rams. Stafford ended up signing an extension to stay in LA. Davante Adams makes it to LA without his long time quarterback, after signing a 2-year $46 million deal with $26 million guaranteed. The 32 year old will join recievers Puka Nacua and Tutu Atwell, with Cooper Kupp on the way out the door. Adams will step into the Kupp role and continue that connection with Stafford. This puts the Rams offense into the top 10 in the NFL. In 2024, Davante played 3 games for the Raiders and was traded to the Jets to play with Rodgers. In the next 11 games Adams would record 67 catches, 864 yards, and 7 touchdowns.
Adams still has the juice to be a productive reciever as he finished 2024 as WR-11. He won’t have to be the focal point of the offense with Nacua in the line up. The Rams offense should be explosive with Stafford’s arm talent throwing to both Adams and Nacua, with the run game included with Kyren Williams. As long as the team stays healthy the Rams will have two top ten wide receivers along with a top ten quarterback. Every Rams offensive player should be acquired in every format of fantasy.
Author: Jesse Baldwin (@J_Baldwin51)
Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers wants to head to the Los Angeles Rams along with wide receiver Davante Adams.
Aaron Rodgers has stated he wants to play for the Los Angeles Rams and he wants wide receiver Davante Adams to follow him there. After two unsuccessful seasons in New York, the Jets informed the HOF quarterback they are moving on. Rodgers clearly wants to end his career on better terms and he believes he can accomplish that in LA. Rodgers first season with the Jets was short lived as he tore his Achilles four snaps in. He bounced back last season with 3,897 passing yards with 28 TDs and 11 INTs. These are stats that any quarterback would like to have but the team finished with a 5-12 record. Rodgers has always been an enigma whether that is with his world views or his treatment of teammates, that said, there is no doubt he is a Hall of Fame quarterback.
If Rodgers makes his way into Sean McVay’s offense, will he be able to accept the way his head coach wants to play. Towards the end of his years in Green Bay, Rodgers conflicted with then new head coach Matt LaFleur for a couple of seasons before winning multiple MVPs. Rodgers will be 41 years old this season, he doesn’t have multiple seasons to get comfortable with McVay, even though McVay and LaFleur run similar offenses. The question is, do the Rams even want Rodgers? They still have Matthew Stafford under contract at the moment. Rodgers finished as QB-15 in 2024, he could potentially be in the top 10 in LA.
Author: Jesse Baldwin (@J_Baldwin51)
The New York Jets have made a splash trade, acquiring star Wide Receiver Davante Adams from the Raiders, in exchange for a conditional 3rd round pick. Rodgers and Adams are reunited after spending 8 years in Green Bay together.
The saga is finally over. Davante Adams has a new home in the New York Jets, reuniting with his former Green Bay Quarterback Aaron Rodgers. This is fantastic news for Adams, who has seemingly languished on the Las Vegas roster for the last season and a half without Derek Carr. The news comes just a day after the Jets lost to the division rival Bills, in a game where the offense did look much improved with the demotion of Nate Hackett. Adams has been dealing with a hamstring injury since Week 3, but look for that to miraculously heal at the sight of his new jersey.
The fantasy impact is that Adams should be able to reignite his top-10 status with Rodgers, but it might take a game or two to get back on the same page. Regarding the other options on the Jets roster, Garrett Wilson has had two back-to-back break-out weeks. He goes from being the #1 in the Offense to the WR2, which should fit his style better, as only Allen Lazard was the second option behind him. Speaking of Lazard, we could only hope that it makes him more irrelevant for fantasy, but his familiarity with Rodgers has allowed him to score some improbable catches of late (see the Hail Mary at the end of the half Monday night for proof).
All in all, this is a boost for the moribund offense that was stuck in the mud for the last two games. They are moving in the right direction with Todd Downing, and this addition might be the one that puts them over the top.
Jason Brown | @numba1punna
The Las Vegas Raiders’ Davante Adams has been ruled out for Week 4 as the Raiders host the Cleveland Browns.
The Las Vegas Raiders are 1-2 on the season after a blowout loss to Carolina in Week 3 and the last thing they needed was bad injury news. Unfortunately for the team, they couldn’t get through the week with good fortune. The Raiders’ leading wide receiver Davante Adams will miss the Week 4 tilt against Cleveland due to a hamstring injury.
Adams leads the Raiders in snap %, targets, receptions, and yards. Currently the PPR WR16, the Adams injury is just the next in a litany of injuries throughout the NFL in the early part of the season. It’s also not ideal for the Raiders as a whole.
The Adams injury will increase the target share for TE Brock Bowers, the Raiders’ 2nd leading pass catcher, as well as Jakobi Meyers who is primarily a slot receiver but can move to the X wideout position in place of Adams. Tre Tucker, the team’s WR3, remans a boom/bust candidate.
The Raiders will not be trading Davante Adams.
It has been rumored for quite some time that the Las Vegas Raiders would entertain trading away wide receiver Davante Adams. The heavy speculation was that Adams would be a New York Jet in a reunion with QB Aaron Rodgers.
Las Vegas GM Tom Telesco was asked about the idea and intimated that there would be no such event. “He’s a Raider.”
Additionally, the Raiders announced they would not be franchise tagging running back Josh Jacobs. Jacobs will be able to explore deals from other teams in free agency.
