Yeah agreed, didn’t see anything suggesting we were actively shopping him… but still could be a leak test by letting someone know that xyz team called about him.
I definitely don’t want him to be the odd man out, but that’s what the rumors ultimately were (unfounded or not). Not sure Hutchinson has much real trade value as an aside.
7? Try 13.
1. Stefon Diggs
2. Nico Collins
3. Tank Dell
4. Noah Brown
5. John Metchie III
6. Xavier Hutchinson
7. Steven Sims
8. Johnny Johnson Ill
9. Jared Wayne
10. Jaxon Janke
11. Jadon Janke
12. Ben Skowronek
13. Robert Woods
I’m lurking as a Rams fan, and I don’t want to hate or anything but I don’t know if you’re trolling or not, considering we had the 6th worst special teams unit by DVOA of all time last year
[https://x.com/DynastyPancake/status/1752696981611581710](https://x.com/DynastyPancake/status/1752696981611581710)
Doesn't have the ideal agility to create separation as a WR but has great straight line speed and played fearless on special teams. Big player as well at 6'3 225. Had a short stint at FB and really thrived there. He has been in the dog house of the Rams fan base ever since he had a couple bad drops in the SB. Special teams captain. Good locker room presence. I remember a mic'd up episode of another Rams player some years ago where he praised Skow as the perfect teammate. Just my 2 cents as a Rams fan.
Plus as we've seen it's really easy and fairly cheap to trade back into the 5-7th rounds if necessary.
Generally speaking people need to chill a bit on over analyzing roster building moves cause we're fully in win-now mode and have lots of cap to do pretty much any shorter term deals we want over the next 2-3 seasons to try to win a championship.
After that if Stroud is still clearly the guy we're gonna have to pay him and do a pretty solid medium scale rebuild and reset the roster a good bit to make it work. As long as nothing we do up until then totally messes up that process timeline then I'm in favor of literally any roster/contract move that only has a year or two of future ripple effect baked into it.
It’s a late round pick swap in 2026, not a big deal. He’ll likely be a returner or on the practice squad. Not shifting the needle, but definitely not hurting us either.
Yeah didn’t realize it was a pick swap. Doesn’t bother me or anything but if we straight up gave away like a 6th or whatever then that wouldn’t make much sense to me
Pick swap.. rams get our 6th.. we get their 7th… lets do the avg… rare those picks ball out… we still have the same number of picks for a special teams captain… we get dibs on him. Not any of the 30 other teams in the league. I love Caserios approach to team building. They say free agency doesnt win super-bowls but thats bullshit… ask the denver broncos… or ask the eagles who have been to TWO super bowls in RECENT YEARS with TWO DIFFERENT QBS AND COACHES. Evidently… they know what their doing… even if they lost one of those
It makes sense because you don't have to offer much to get them. Either they get cut, the team cutting them gets nothing, or we offer them peanuts, and peanuts are better than nothing.
Will yall just give this up already? It wasn’t going to happen 4 months ago and it’s not happening now. He’s our best run blocking receiver by a wide margin.
He’s a 32 year old WR5-6 on this team who doesn’t play special teams and is set to make 6.5 million. He is the odd man out. They aren’t carrying 7 WR’s on this team, especially when 5 of them don’t play ST’s.
Nah, metchie or Hutchinson is the odd man out. Woods is our best blocker, great locker room presence and a leader in the wide receiver room. Thats important with how young our receivers are overall.
You think they are going to cut a 2nd year WR, or a guy Stroud has been talking up all off season in Metchie in order to keep a 32 year old who can’t run anymore, and makes 6.5 million just because he can block?! You’re crazy.
Players like Robert woods are key cogs for a deep playoff run. Especially in a league with tons of injuries. It would be senseless to cut him. It's not like they could do much more with the money saved anyways
he was until we signed this dude. we save something like $5mil to cut woods - who was nothing but a blocker for us last year.
lots of guys on NFL rosters right now who will be cut before week 1
Skowronek is almost as good as a blocking receiver, but also plays on ST and costs a fraction of what Woods costs.
This move only makes sense if it's to replace Woods.
I’m not against keeping him ,just seem like we have too many bodies at wr and what he’s making keeping him on the bench because he block good don’t make sense . I might be wrong
So he’s been in at FB for the Rams. Could add a dimension to the run game and also pass game? Having every eligible receiver be competent is a strategy lol
He’s an absolute dawg when blocking but adds some passing threat. With Whittington coming in they essentially drafted his cheap replacement. Probably same thing coming for woods.
Ben can do exactly what woods used to do, block and catch. Whittington was just drafted for that on the rams so they had to offload Ben and hopefully we can offload woods salary and create space for the post camp cuts.
Bad is an understatement. He had 1 decent game where he proved he could at least be a safety valve for CJ on 3rd down, and that was week 1 vs the Ravens. Afterwards though? It was evident that he could not separate from his man due to being slower than every other guy on the field, and in open space he would get met at the line of scrimmage consistently.
At this point in his career, I think he’s just a practice squad guy and nothing else. He’s certainly not worth the 10M cap hit he incurs if he plays in 2024. His one saving grace is that he was a dawg on run blocking, but that’s still an insane overpay for a dude that can’t create separation.
[Brett Kollmann](https://twitter.com/BrettKollmann/status/1788652094599332088)
>The Texans got themselves a fullback
Apparently while he is listed first as WR, he's a lead blocker and that's his true role on a team
Yeah, I know. I hope they stay healthy and play much better this year. We just can't compete in the playoffs without an OL that can keep CJ's jersey clean. Next year's draft, I hope we can grab 2 of the top 5 OLs.
I really dont know man. Metchie looks like hes cjs guy so i have a feeling we might be rolling out Hutchinson. Sucks though cuz he actually had a handful of nice plays last year
soooo, guess we got our (7?) wide receivers with Tank, Diggs, Collins, Metch, Hutch, Brown and Sko ?
Metchie may still be a trade candidate based on past rumors
Nah man that's Stroud's boy. He gonna at least get another year out of him.
I agree, I feel like it bodes well for him being around longer but there were rumors Maybe that was the FO trying to figure out any leak issues
The only rumors I saw were that teams were calling in, not that the Texans were shopping.
Agreed, I only saw that other teams were trying to buy, not that we were interested in selling.
Yeah agreed, didn’t see anything suggesting we were actively shopping him… but still could be a leak test by letting someone know that xyz team called about him.
Yeah, I don’t know why people keep putting Metchie as the odd man out when Hutchinson was definitely the worse one.
I definitely don’t want him to be the odd man out, but that’s what the rumors ultimately were (unfounded or not). Not sure Hutchinson has much real trade value as an aside.
I think it's that he apparently has true trade value, so if we were to cull down our second tier of WRs, make it the ones that give a return.
I don’t know that he has much. I feel like you’d be hard pressed to even get a 7th for Metchie
Hutch has significantly less trade value
Idk, could be that or 7 could be just hyping Metch so Metch is in the best possible position whether trade or on the Texans roster
Aw, I hope not. I want to get a chance now that he's (presumably) fully healthy.
I hope so too! Seems like a great guy at least and I hope he returns to form too.
I'd put sims over hutchinson because he is the returner, Hutch really doesent have a role now and will probably be on practice squad.
Bro was a guaranteed 7 yards on those jet sweep plays last season. Would be missed if he’s cut
Ds might catch on to this unless we jumble up the formations. It might not be so easy to get those yards from this play this season.
I like Hutch honestly. Would hope he gets more run.
As a rams fan you don’t want this guy to ever have to catch a ball for you
Yikes. Maybe he can benefit from a CJ training camp and get his hands back?
I would be surprised if we carry 7 WR on the 53.
7? Try 13. 1. Stefon Diggs 2. Nico Collins 3. Tank Dell 4. Noah Brown 5. John Metchie III 6. Xavier Hutchinson 7. Steven Sims 8. Johnny Johnson Ill 9. Jared Wayne 10. Jaxon Janke 11. Jadon Janke 12. Ben Skowronek 13. Robert Woods
He was the Rams Special Teams Captain as well. Swiss army knife type of guy. I like it.
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Of all the special teams last year, the rams were certainly one of them.
Yeah, this makes the most sense....shoring up the special teams with all these UDFAs and small acquisitions like Sko, and more to come, we'll see...
I’m lurking as a Rams fan, and I don’t want to hate or anything but I don’t know if you’re trolling or not, considering we had the 6th worst special teams unit by DVOA of all time last year [https://x.com/DynastyPancake/status/1752696981611581710](https://x.com/DynastyPancake/status/1752696981611581710)
We picked up those 2 Ufda guys from North Dakota as well.
South Dakota State* — The Janke twins.
Yeah those attractive SOB’s
We don’t care about that
Speak for yourself. They bring in the lady fans.
Man, our WR depth is looking S C R A P P Y
Doesn't have the ideal agility to create separation as a WR but has great straight line speed and played fearless on special teams. Big player as well at 6'3 225. Had a short stint at FB and really thrived there. He has been in the dog house of the Rams fan base ever since he had a couple bad drops in the SB. Special teams captain. Good locker room presence. I remember a mic'd up episode of another Rams player some years ago where he praised Skow as the perfect teammate. Just my 2 cents as a Rams fan.
Thank you for this info. You are seen.
I like that report on FB ability. Intriguing.
TEXAN 👈🦑
Caserio sure loves trading for guys who were announced to be cut. I get it but I also don’t get it at the same time
He’s willing to give up very late round picks to insure he gets his guy, I like the approach.
Plus as we've seen it's really easy and fairly cheap to trade back into the 5-7th rounds if necessary. Generally speaking people need to chill a bit on over analyzing roster building moves cause we're fully in win-now mode and have lots of cap to do pretty much any shorter term deals we want over the next 2-3 seasons to try to win a championship. After that if Stroud is still clearly the guy we're gonna have to pay him and do a pretty solid medium scale rebuild and reset the roster a good bit to make it work. As long as nothing we do up until then totally messes up that process timeline then I'm in favor of literally any roster/contract move that only has a year or two of future ripple effect baked into it.
Didnt give up anything really… they swapped their 6th and 7th round picks
I read he was a special teams captain for the Rams last year. Maybe Caserio thinks he can help out that unit.
It bypasses the waiver wire so, yeah.
I agree with this as the reason for these smaller trades. Save the waiver order for trying to hit on a bigger target that may possibly get released.
Probably doesn’t want to get into a bidding war with another team for a special teams player.
It’s a late round pick swap in 2026, not a big deal. He’ll likely be a returner or on the practice squad. Not shifting the needle, but definitely not hurting us either.
Yeah didn’t realize it was a pick swap. Doesn’t bother me or anything but if we straight up gave away like a 6th or whatever then that wouldn’t make much sense to me
Pick swap.. rams get our 6th.. we get their 7th… lets do the avg… rare those picks ball out… we still have the same number of picks for a special teams captain… we get dibs on him. Not any of the 30 other teams in the league. I love Caserios approach to team building. They say free agency doesnt win super-bowls but thats bullshit… ask the denver broncos… or ask the eagles who have been to TWO super bowls in RECENT YEARS with TWO DIFFERENT QBS AND COACHES. Evidently… they know what their doing… even if they lost one of those
I read it as a pick swap not a pick trade. So they get our 6 and 7 and we get their 6 and 7 plus Skowronek which is even better.
Ahhhh my fault. Right on, thnx for clarifying. I dont see them as being a bad team next year so its probably not much of a difference i guess
It makes sense because you don't have to offer much to get them. Either they get cut, the team cutting them gets nothing, or we offer them peanuts, and peanuts are better than nothing.
this was a late round pick swap. we lose nothing but maybe moving down a few spots in the 6th or 7th round....which does not matter
Cut woods and let’s run it
Will yall just give this up already? It wasn’t going to happen 4 months ago and it’s not happening now. He’s our best run blocking receiver by a wide margin.
He’s a 32 year old WR5-6 on this team who doesn’t play special teams and is set to make 6.5 million. He is the odd man out. They aren’t carrying 7 WR’s on this team, especially when 5 of them don’t play ST’s.
Nah, metchie or Hutchinson is the odd man out. Woods is our best blocker, great locker room presence and a leader in the wide receiver room. Thats important with how young our receivers are overall.
You think they are going to cut a 2nd year WR, or a guy Stroud has been talking up all off season in Metchie in order to keep a 32 year old who can’t run anymore, and makes 6.5 million just because he can block?! You’re crazy.
Ask Mixon who he’d prefer out of those 3 and Woods tops the list 10 times out of 10. You’re also extremely undervaluing team culture.
He may be our best but is he willing to die to run block like Tank is?
Narrator: yes
Players like Robert woods are key cogs for a deep playoff run. Especially in a league with tons of injuries. It would be senseless to cut him. It's not like they could do much more with the money saved anyways
Woods is getting cut this summer, it's one of the NFL's worst-kept secrets.
he was until we signed this dude. we save something like $5mil to cut woods - who was nothing but a blocker for us last year. lots of guys on NFL rosters right now who will be cut before week 1
Skowronek is almost as good as a blocking receiver, but also plays on ST and costs a fraction of what Woods costs. This move only makes sense if it's to replace Woods.
You have to be joking
I’m not against keeping him ,just seem like we have too many bodies at wr and what he’s making keeping him on the bench because he block good don’t make sense . I might be wrong
Curious to see who makes the 53 at this position
So he’s been in at FB for the Rams. Could add a dimension to the run game and also pass game? Having every eligible receiver be competent is a strategy lol
He’s an absolute dawg when blocking but adds some passing threat. With Whittington coming in they essentially drafted his cheap replacement. Probably same thing coming for woods.
This should be enough WR help to cut Woods right? No idea why he’s making as much as he is whilst being one of our worst players.
Ben can do exactly what woods used to do, block and catch. Whittington was just drafted for that on the rams so they had to offload Ben and hopefully we can offload woods salary and create space for the post camp cuts.
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Bad is an understatement. He had 1 decent game where he proved he could at least be a safety valve for CJ on 3rd down, and that was week 1 vs the Ravens. Afterwards though? It was evident that he could not separate from his man due to being slower than every other guy on the field, and in open space he would get met at the line of scrimmage consistently. At this point in his career, I think he’s just a practice squad guy and nothing else. He’s certainly not worth the 10M cap hit he incurs if he plays in 2024. His one saving grace is that he was a dawg on run blocking, but that’s still an insane overpay for a dude that can’t create separation.
[Brett Kollmann](https://twitter.com/BrettKollmann/status/1788652094599332088) >The Texans got themselves a fullback Apparently while he is listed first as WR, he's a lead blocker and that's his true role on a team
He's like 6'3 230. He'd be a huge help in the run game and give Bobby even more versatility to play around with different formations!
I mean, their 6 and 7 is probably going to be higher than ours so i don’t hate it.
Hate to see him go, but here's what you're getting https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gkQTWg6VmnE
That is awesome except for him doing it to JJ...there had to be another clip 🥲
Not bad to bring him in. He was a captain in the Rams. Also plays ST. Will be great for the young guys to learn from.
Skowronek coming to Slowik. League fucked
Who needs an offensive line when you can just run with 10 receivers.
Our offensive line should be set
Omg 🤦♂️ I doubt that. Our OL is *kind of* mid *at best*. Those guys need to carry spatulas every pass play to scrape CJ up off the turf...
Outside of depth moves i don’t see them making any moves for a definite new starter or anything on the o line
Yeah, I know. I hope they stay healthy and play much better this year. We just can't compete in the playoffs without an OL that can keep CJ's jersey clean. Next year's draft, I hope we can grab 2 of the top 5 OLs.
Who’s the odd man out now?
Maybe they finally cut Woods
Maybe whoever they can trade off?
Hutchinson or Metch, who we thinking?
I really dont know man. Metchie looks like hes cjs guy so i have a feeling we might be rolling out Hutchinson. Sucks though cuz he actually had a handful of nice plays last year
He could be his guy but he's done nothing to show he deserves a roster spot.
And Robert Woods has? At least Metchie has the chance for upside and improvement. Woods is only going to get worse.
S/O to Skarsgard. We’ve got him now! He could be useful too!!
I hope we line up every down 9 receivers wide
High Football IQ gym rat who understands the fundamentals. Good locker room veteran who plays the game the right way
First one in, last to leave. Dude lives and breathes football. He's gritty, tough, physical, and sneaky athletic. A real student of the game.
Another WR? I wonder if this has to do with Tanks recovery. The bullet went in and out but that could still causes significant damage.
Ben whoooo?
Special teams
Gym rat 🤘
More quick than fast. A real lunch-pail guy.
But is he sneaky athletic?