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The 6-5 Rams' long list of traded draft assets is incredibly depressing
If there’s such a thing as a Super Bowl hangover for a team that lost in the NFL’s championship game, that’s what’s happened to the Los Angeles Rams.

The problem is, it may not be a one-season dive for the now 6-5 Rams, who could still make the postseason despite suffering a blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Monday.

This is a good time to remind everyone that the Rams mortgaged their future, and that reaches all the way back before they lost Super Bowl LIII to the New England Patriots.

Let’s break down the major picks they’ve traded:

2016

Traded their first-round pick (No. 15), two second-rounders, and a third-rounder to the Titans to draft Jared Goff
Traded their fifth-round pick to the Eagles and acquired Nick Foles
The good news: Goff eventually led the Rams to a Super Bowl appearance, although it’s up in the air if that was completely thanks to him or Sean McVay.
The bad news: the Rams forked over a lot of money for an extension earlier this year, and the offense has fallen off a cliff.

The Foles deal is kind of fun to look back on — the Eagles shipped him to the Rams along with a second-rounder (which went to the Titans) and a fourth-rounder in exchange for Sam Bradford and that fifth-round pick. Bradford would eventually be dealt to the Vikings (for a first-round pick, whaaaaa!) and Foles would be cut by the Rams and eventually help the Eagles win a title.

2017

Traded their first-round and third-round picks to the Titans to draft Jared Goff
If you were wondering what happened to the rest of the Goff deal, here it is.

2018

Traded first-round and sixth-round picks to the Patriots for Brandin Cooks
Traded a second-round pick to the Bills for Sammy Watkins
Traded a fourth-rounder to the Chiefs for Marcus Peters
Traded a fifth-round pick to the Broncos for Aquib Talib
The Rams would get a fourth-rounder back in the Cooks deal, but wow.

Watkins played 15 games in a Rams uniform and caught 39 passes for 593 yards and eight touchdowns, so it wasn’t a complete wash.

The Marcus Peters deal isn’t complete — see below.

2019

Traded a second-rounder to the Chiefs for Marcus Peters
Traded a third-round pick to the Jaguars for Dante Fowler Jr.
Where was their first-round pick? The Rams traded back with the No. 31 pick going to the Falcons.

The Fowler deal did get them a 2019 third-rounder and a 2020 fifth-round selection.

2020

Traded a first-round pick to the Jaguars for Jalen Ramsey
Traded fifth-round pick to the Jaguars for Dante Fowler Jr.
I wonder if Ramsey might re-think re-signing with the Rams after this year …

2021

Traded a first-round and fourth-round pick to the Jaguars for Jalen Ramsey
Traded a fifth-round pick to the Browns for Austin Corbett
Rams trades since 2016:

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