Cooks, who has 14 catches and 127 yards in seven games this season, would become the first NFL player to be traded five times if he is dealt.<\/p>\n
And according to sources, a Cooks trade is very possible.<\/p>\n
He is one of several Saints veterans being discussed as potential trade targets<\/a> around the league, with fellow wide receivers Chris Olave<\/a> and Rashid Shaheed<\/a> joining him in that conversation. Olave is unlikely to be traded, sources say, while it could be on the table for Shaheed.<\/p>\n Cooks signed a two-year, $13 million deal this past offseason. The contract included a $4.8 million signing bonus and a base salary of just $1.26 million, which makes it a deal that’s easy to trade. Salary cap-wise, it’s easier to trade, as well.<\/p>\n While the Saints have started the season 1-6, it does not seem to be a situation in which veterans are dying to be traded out of New Orleans. For instance, Alvin Kamara<\/a> told the organization he\u2019d retire if he was traded<\/a>, and several other veterans not only understand where the team is development-wise but want to stick around and be part of what the Saints are building.<\/p>\n For Cooks, there seems to be an openness on both sides in moving on. When Cooks signed with the Saints in March, there was still the belief that Derek Carr<\/a> would be his quarterback. Two months later, Carr retired<\/a>, creating a transition year under rookie head coach Kellen Moore.<\/p>\n Saints general manager Mickey Loomis is known in the building as someone who understands veterans and treats them as professionals. Allowing Cooks to play for a contender (if the right deal arose) would be another example of that.<\/p>\n In a trade market that currently does not seem flush with talent, Cooks could be a productive acquisition for a WR-needy team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooks, who has 14 catches and 127 yards in seven games this season, would become the first NFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,22416,1249,44,593,19976,85,121151,11236],"class_list":["post-242819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brandin-cooks","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-sports","tag-the-insiders","tag-trade-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}