In a bit of a surprising move on Friday morning, the Los Angeles Rams worked out a deal to acquire All-Pro cornerback Marcus Peters from the Kansas City Chiefs. It provides a significant upgrade to their secondary with the addition of a proven commodity joining the fray ahead of the 2018 season.
Los Angeles was able to reportedly do by only parting ways with draft picks in exchange for the talented cornerback. According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, this deal had also nearly included former Pro Bowl outside linebacker/defensive end Robert Quinn being included in the haul in return for Peters.
At one point, the #Chiefs were pushing to trade for DE Robert Quinn, along with a draft pick. But sounds like now it’ll be just draft picks going over to KC for Marcus Peters.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 23, 2018
The Chiefs' interest in acquiring Quinn likely comes because the team struggled to create consistent pressure on opposing quarterbacks in the pass rush only garnering 31 total team sacks last year, which ranked 24th in the league. The 27-year-old also has a year under his belt playing in the 3-4 defensive scheme, which is what Kansas City has been running for the last few seasons.
Quinn is in the prime of his career coming off a respectable 2017 campaign where he recorded 8.5 sacks. He has been a highly productive player throughout his seven-year career all spent with the Rams as he is currently tied for third all-time in franchise history with Kevin Carter with 62.5 sacks. The only concern has been with injuries over the last couple of years, but it appears that he may have gotten past that as was able to take the field in 15 games with his only absence in being in the season finale where the team elected to sit several of its key players ahead of the playoffs.
There has been chatter about Quinn's future with the team possibly coming into question as the Rams may be hoping for him to take a pay cut to free up more salary cap space in order to re-sign several of their free agents such as safety Lamarcus Joyner and wide receiver Sammy Watkins. What should be noted is that he is set to enter the third year of his four-year, $57 million deal that has over $25 million in base salary and bonuses remaining on the contract. This includes $12.4 million for the 2018 season with just $999,354 in dead cap if the team decides to part ways with him this upcoming offseason.
These next few weeks should be telling of what direction the team plans to head with Quinn's future in Los Angeles in 2018 and possibly beyond that.
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