According to Madison Williams of Sports Illustrated on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Rams traded wide receiver Van Jefferson of Brentwood, Tennessee to the Atlanta Falcons. In return, the Rams will receive the Falcons’s sixth and seventh round pick in the 2025 National Football League Draft.
This is the second time in the last three weeks that the Rams have made a trade. On September 21, the Rams traded running back Cam Akers of Jackson, Mississippi to the Minnesota Vikings with a conditional seventh round draft pick in the 2026 NFL Draft for a conditional sixth round draft pick in the 2026 NFL Draft.
In five games this season, Jefferson had eight catches for 105 receiving yards. He was only on the football field for two offensive snaps the entire game on Sunday in the Rams’s 23-14 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. It appears Jefferson was expendable because 2022 Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Cooper Kupp of Yakima, Washington returned this past weekend after missing the first four weeks with a hamstring injury. Speaking of the Super Bowl, Jefferson was on the Rams’s team that won Super Bowl LVI. In a 23-20 Rams win over the Cincinnati Bengals on February 13, 2022, Jefferson had four catches for 23 receiving yards.
Jefferson has been with the Rams since 2020. In the last four seasons, Jefferson has 101 catches for 1499 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns.
The Falcons meanwhile have made the trade to get their passing game going. In 2022, the Falcons only had 2927 passing yards the entire regular season. Only the Chicago Bears (2598 passing yards), had fewer yards.
