Tennessee Titans purchase veteran huge receiver Robert Woods from Los Angeles Rams, sources say

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans have acquired huge receiver Robert Woods from the Los Angeles Rams in trade for a 2023 sixth-round choose, sources confirmed to ESPN on Saturday evening.

Woods tore his ACL on Nov. 13 and was due a $3.5 million roster bonus from the Rams on Sunday. The veteran huge receiver grew to become accessible after Los Angeles signed free-agent wideout Allen Robinson II to a three-year, $45 million contract on Thursday.

The Titans’ acquisition of Woods offers them a viable choice because the workforce’s No. 2 huge receiver. Tennessee launched Julio Jones on Wednesday with a post-June 1 designation. The transfer saved the Titans $9.5 million in cap area. Woods holds a $13.5 million salary-cap hit in 2022. He signed a four-year, $65 million contract with the Rams in 2020. He has no useless cap hit within the remaining years of his contract.

Woods, 29, was a second-round alternative by the Buffalo Bills in 2013 out of Southern California. He had 45 receptions final season for the Tremendous Bowl champions, totaling 556 yards and 4 touchdowns earlier than struggling the foremost knee harm. He was a key cog within the offense early on, because the Rams constructed up momentum and chemistry with new quarterback Matthew Stafford, however Woods performed in solely 9 video games. In the meantime, Cooper Kupp and Odell Beckham Jr. grew to become Stafford’s major targets en path to the title.

Although he did not swimsuit up together with his teammates for the Tremendous Bowl, Woods did converse with reporters earlier than the sport, and he expressed his appreciation for the postseason run.

“I really feel like not too long ago I used to be capable of overcome that feeling of like, ‘Ah man, not being part of it,'” Woods stated on the time. “I really feel just like the workforce has been actually, actually large on, like, ‘You are part of this, you are part of this, you are part of this.’ Initially, you are contemporary out of being injured, contemporary out of surgical procedure, and also you’re, like, ‘Man, I used to be simply doing that a number of weeks in the past.’ … However actually, I really feel like I used to be capable of get previous that and capable of actually take pleasure in this entire playoff expertise.”

Many teammates lauded the angle and method Woods took via the journey, together with Stafford.

“Robert Woods is the L.A. Rams,” Stafford stated. “After I take into consideration him, I take into consideration the toughness. I take into consideration the eye to element. I take into consideration unselfishness. And I take into consideration the entire issues that we speak about as a workforce that we need to be. That is bottled up into one individual.

“Few guys on our workforce care extra about different guys than Robert Woods.”

Woods has 7,077 receiving yards and 35 touchdowns for his profession on 570 receptions.