The Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams are busy again.
After previously agreeing to swap quarterbacks in a deal that will become official at the start of the new league year, the Rams are finalizing a deal to send veteran defender Michael Brockers to the Lions, Tom said. Pelissero, NFL Network, reported.
This is another exchange involving Brad Holmes and his old team of new Lions general managers, following the previous exchange that Matthew Stafford sent to the Rams in exchange for Jared Goff plus draft picks that will become official on Wednesday after the start of a new league year.
As the Rams began restructuring a number of contracts to get below the salary cap, they also asked Brockers to do so, but the parties could not reach an agreement, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported. Brockers had a cap number of $ 9.83 million in 2021.
Taken in the first round of the 2012 NFL draft by the then St. Louis Rams, Brockers has been a mainstay at the franchise in the starting lineup since his freshman year. Brockers may have lost amid a very defensive Rams bunch of defenders who ended the 2020 campaign as the best defense.
The defensive end should bring a veteran presence with Super Bowl experience to a rebuilding Detroit defense that has long wanted to improve its pace. Brockers should compliment the recently re-signed Romeo Okwara.
Brockers also plan to see a familiar face in Goff, but that could be a bit uncomfortable, as Brockers recently said on Good Morning Football that the Rams Stafford will be a “turning point where we can only have the big game. win.”
Now Brockers is heading for a turning point in his career as the nine-year veteran will play for a team other than the Rams for the first time.