Just hours after the Raiders sent Davante Adams to the Jets in exchange for a conditional third round pick, another former Raiders receiver is being moved for similar compensation.
Former Raiders top pick Amari Cooper has been traded by the Browns to the Bills for a third round pick. The two teams also swap late round picks in the deal.
Sources: The #Bills are trading for #Browns WR Amari Cooper, sending a third-round pick in a pick swap.
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BUF gets WR Amari Cooper and 6th in 2025
CLE gets 3rd in 2025 and a 7th in 2026 pic.twitter.com/jabaQYMw8h— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) October 15, 2024
This will be the third time in Cooper’s career he’s been traded and his fourth NFL team. He was originally selected by the Raiders with the fourth overall pick in the 2015 draft out of Alabama.
Midway through his fourth season, the Raiders traded Cooper to Dallas in exchange for a first round pick. He lasted the exact same amount of time in Dallas before they traded him to Cleveland. Now midway through his third season with the Browns, he’s shipped again.
Cooper is just a year younger than Adams, and was selected the year after Adams, so they are basically in the same place in their careers.
With it happening so quickly after the Adams trade, it would seem the Browns and Bills were waiting to see what seemed like the going rate for a 30-year-old Pro Bowl receiver. Funny how these things are all connected.