When the New England Patriots traded wide receiver Brandin Cooks to the Los Angeles Rams, the team not only lost its most effective player at the position from a year ago, it also moved on from a lot of draft-pedigree. After all, Cooks was the 20th overall selection in the 2014 NFL draft and as the fourth wideout off the board one of the most highly-coveted wide receivers to join the league that year.
22 spots after Cooks was drafted by the New Orleans Saints, another productive college wideout was taken – the seventh of eight players at his position to be selected within the first 50 picks of that year's draft: Vanderbilt's Jordan Matthews, who the Philadelphia Eagles brought in with the 42nd overall choice.