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A few more details on the long-awaited trade on Matthew Stafford – Jared Goff has been exhausted since the trade became official yesterday.
One is that the Rams, not the Lions, paid the $ 2.5 million roster bonus to Goff. The bonus became official when Goff was on the list on the second day of the league year, and therefore the trade only became official on Thursday, which was the second day of the league year. The Rams paid Goff the roster bonus just before they made the office official.
Another detail is that the third round draft pick the Lions get is a compensatory pick. It was reported earlier that the Lions had selected the Rams’ usual third round, overall no. 88, but the Lions actually get one of the Rams’ two compensatory third-round picks, either no. 101 overall or no. 103 overall.
It has not been announced which of the two picks is on his way to Detroit, but if it is number 103, it could mean that Brad Holmes, general manager of the Lions, gets the choice that the Rams were awarded because he lost Holmes. . Holmes has previously worked for the Rams, and the league assigns compensatory third-round picks to teams that lose minority staff who become general managers or head coaches of other teams. The Rams got such a choice to lose Holmes to the Lions.