{"id":793636,"date":"2026-03-05T11:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/793636\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:51:25","slug":"cb-wants-market-topping-deal-from-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/793636\/","title":{"rendered":"CB Wants ‘Market-Topping Deal’ From Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rams were not the only team interested in trading for Trent McDuffie<\/a>. The Giants were close to agreeing to a deal with the Chiefs, but were not willing to give up \u201cfirst-round plus\u201d value, per The Kansas City Star\u2019s Sam McDowell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>New York\u2019s exact offer is unknown, but it must have been less than the package sent by Los Angeles. It included the No. 29 selection in April\u2019s draft as well as picks in the third, fifth, and sixth rounds, which comes out to the value of a first-round pick in the early 20s. The Giants would need a different combination of picks to match and were unwilling to do so.<\/p>\n

Instead, McDuffie will head to the Rams, who have received permission from the Chiefs to negotiate an extension with the 25-year-old. This is a necessary step to start work on a new contract, as the trade cannot be officially processed until the start of the new league year next week.<\/p>\n

McDuffie is seeking a \u201cmarket-topping deal,\u201d per Sports Illustrated\u2019s Albert Breer<\/a> and could very well become the highest-paid cornerback in the league, per ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter. That would put McDuffie in line for a contract worth over $30.1MM per year after Derek Stingley<\/a> Jr. and Sauce Gardner<\/a> \u2013 also 2022 first-rounders \u2013 reset the market last year.\u00a0The former Washington Husky has not been as dominant in coverage as Stingley and Gardner, but he makes a much bigger impact in run support and as a blitzer. He also brings inside-outside versatility, which can allow the Rams to be more flexible in building their secondary.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles, having moved significant draft capital for McDuffie, is clearly willing to meet his asking price. McDuffie is owed $13.6MM in 2026 with the same cap hit, which the Rams can comfortable absorb. An extension would lower that number and give general manager Les Snead more money to address other needs in free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams were not the only team interested in trading for Trent McDuffie. The Giants were close to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,110,58,56,4223],"class_list":{"0":"post-793636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-new-york-giants","12":"tag-trent-mcduffie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116176427267807330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}