When the Los Angeles Rams and defensive lineman Michael Brockers couldn't agree to a contract restructure last week, necessitated by the franchise's salary cap situation, the team had no choice but to put him on the trading block.
Brockers, drafted in the first round by the Rams in 2012, had spent his entire career with the franchise before it traded him to the Detroit Lions for a seventh-round draft pick in 2023.
"It would be like you, as a probably a rookie investor, and picking a blue-chip stock that just kept returning a lot of awesome dividends," Rams general manager Les Snead said on Friday.