{"id":26993,"date":"2017-08-11T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=26993"},"modified":"2017-08-11T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T17:10:13","slug":"los-angeles-rams-traded-sammy-watkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2017\/08\/11\/los-angeles-rams-traded-sammy-watkins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams Have Traded for Sammy Watkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immediately after the news broke that Dallas Cowboys running back <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/E\/ElliEz00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ezekiel  Elliott<\/a> will be suspended for six weeks, RapSheet reported that Buffalo Bills have traded wide receiver <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WatkSa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sammy  Watkins<\/a> has been traded to the Los Angeles Rams along with a sixth round pick for <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GainE.00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E.J.  Gaines<\/a> and a second rounder.<\/p>\n<h2>The Los Angeles Rams Have Traded for Sammy  Watkins<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Bills just traded WR Sammy  Watkins. WOW<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/896050933938900992\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In his three years as a member of the Buffalo Bills, Watkins caught 153 passes for 2,459 and 17 touchdowns. In flashes, he looked explosive, but he just couldn&#8217;t stay healthy. He missed three games in 2015 and half the season last year. The Buffalo Bills actually traded with the Cleveland Browns to get the fourth overall pick to take Watkins back in 2014, and three years later, he&#8217;s on another team.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time this news broke, the Bills also announced that they were trading corner <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/D\/DarbRo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ronald  Darby<\/a> for Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MattJo00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan  Matthews<\/a> and a third round pick. So essentially, the Bills traded Watkins for Matthews, and Darby for Gaines, while adding a second and a third round pick.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that the Bills probably didn&#8217;t want to pay Watkins number one receiver money next year, mostly because he just can&#8217;t stay healthy. At least in this situation, the Bills get something back for Watkins, and their new general manager, Brandon Beane, will have more picks next year&#8217;s draft as they attempt to rebuild.<\/p>\n<h3>For the Rams<\/h3>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/G\/GoffJa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared  Goff<\/a> finally gets a true number one receiver. Now he&#8217;s got Watkins, <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/A\/AustTa00.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tavon  Austin<\/a>, <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=WoodRo21,WoodRo02,WoodRo00&amp;search=Robert+Woods&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert  Woods<\/a>, and rookie Cooper Kupp. Along with improvements on the offensive line and <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2017\/08\/07\/curious-case-todd-gurley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">talented running back Todd Gurley<\/a>, the Los Angeles Rams are starting to form a bit of an offense.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"fyZzxbE9T2d8sqXXbpzWoA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/630766214\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'fyZzxbE9T2d8sqXXbpzWoA',sig:'nfuleCMwpyeV5CL9pcYVoGagX0cJDPdrowPqKWVijp8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'630766214',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years after drafting Sammy Watkins with their first round pick, the Buffalo Bills have traded the receiver to the Los Angeles Rams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1347,"featured_media":26998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,34,36],"tags":[2580,177,755,61,451,192,40,637,570],"class_list":["post-26993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bills","category-rams","category-nfl-news","tag-2018-nfl-draft","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-e-j-gaines","tag-football","tag-jared-goff","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-nfl","tag-sammy-watkins","tag-tyrod-taylor"],"modified_by":"Ryan Smith","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}