NFL.com is now reporting that the Denver Broncos will trade wide receiver Brandon Lloyd to the Rams. The Rams' end of the trade has not yet been reported. The assumption here is that the Rams will give up a 4th or 5th-round pick in 2012. The Broncos had opened the bidding around the league at a third-rounder but reportedly hadn't received any offers better than a 7th-rounder.
Lloyd led the NFL in receiving yards last season with 1,448 on 77 catches and scored 11 TDs. His 2011 numbers are nowhere near approaching that so far, just 19 catches and 283 yards in 5 games. He's 30 years old, 6'0, 188. 2010 was easily the best season of Lloyd's 9-year career, so it's worth noting Rams OC Josh McDaniels was Denver's head coach at that time. Lloyd's current contract expires at the end of this season; one assumes the Rams didn't trade for him without being close to an agreement on an extension.
This trade obviously re-unites Lloyd and McDaniels, and almost certainly spells the doom of Mike Sims-Walker's Rams career of dropping balls and forgetting where to line up.
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