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After eight successful seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, it looks as if veteran wide receiver Cooper Kupp will soon be on his way out of LA. On Monday night, Kupp took to social media to announce that the team had informed him of their plans to trade him, likely to a destination where he can “continue competing for championships.”
Coming off of an Offensive Player of the Year campaign in which he had 1,947 receiving yards, the second-most in a single season in NFL history, Kupp was named Super Bowl LVI MVP, bringing the Rams their first championship since 2000, when the team was still in St. Louis. He’ll eventually depart with the 4th-most receiving yards in Rams franchise history, while also ranking 3rd in both receptions and receiving touchdowns.
Since then, Kupp has missed a total of 18 regular season games due to injury, but he’s remained productive when he has been on the field. At only 31 years old, it’s possible that Kupp has a couple of good seasons left, particularly if he ends up playing for a team that A) Has a clear-cut need/role for him, and B) Is in the championship mix. So who are these teams that may end up inquiring for Cooper Kupp. Let’s count them down from 8 to 1, from good fit to best fit, using all of the above criteria.
Since Ben Roethlisberger retired at the conclusion of the 2021 season, the Steelers have been a bottom-ten passing offense in each of the three years that followed. This is largely due to instability at quarterback — and for what it’s worth, we have no clue who the Steelers starting quarterback will be throughout the 2025 season — but it’s also been because for a franchise that once seemed to find high quality receivers with regularity, their most productive wideout, George Pickens, has been volatile to say the least.
Cooper Kupp would certainly fill a need for the Steelers, and given the fact that we’ve yet to see Mike Tomlin finish a season with a losing record, Pittsburgh is at least tangentially in the championship picture. But with so much uncertainty at quarterback, it’s hard to say that this is the best fit for Kupp.
New Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer, quarterback Dak Prescott and All-Pro wide receiver CeeDee Lamb could all benefit from having another established weapon in a young and mostly unproven wide receivers room. How close Dallas is to contending for a Super Bowl is a question we can definitely spend a great deal of time debating, but what we will likely be able to agree on is that this would be a very Jerry Jones kind of move.
As is the case with Dallas, how close New England is to a Super Bowl is up for debate, though how things went with Washington this season gives fans in Boston reason to believe that if...
