Steelers nearing commerce for Rams receiver Allen Robinson
Allen Robinson seems to be heading again to the AFC.
The Rams are primed to commerce the wideout to the Steelers if he passes his bodily, based on reviews from NFL Media and ESPN.
Phrases of what the Steelers would ship again weren’t disclosed.
In 10 video games final season, Robinson, a 2015 Professional Bowler, caught 33 passes for 339 yards and three touchdowns.
Robinson, 29, missed the final seven video games final season after struggling a stress fracture in his foot that required surgical procedure.
Final 12 months was his first on the Rams after spending 4 seasons apiece with the Bears and Jaguars.
The Rams are in just a little little bit of a rebuilding mode.
After successful the Tremendous Bowl within the 2021-22 season, they’d a 12 months through which the whole lot went incorrect and completed 5-12 after sustaining key season-ending accidents to stars such as quarterback Matthew Stafford and wideout Cooper Kupp.
There had been rumors at various instances this offseason that head coach Sean McVay would stroll away and that Stafford may very well be traded, however McVay opted to return to the Rams, and the franchise issued a press release saying that Stafford just isn’t on the commerce block.
“McVay has gone forwards and backwards on the choice and desires time to get away to course of all that has transpired over the previous 12 months: successful a Tremendous Bowl, being courted to work in tv, getting married, watching his spouse’s house nation of Ukraine invaded, dropping his grandfather after which teaching a crew that has fallen in need of its expectations,” ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported earlier than McVay in the end told Rams players that he was staying.
The Steelers are in an attention-grabbing place heading into 2023 as quarterback Kenny Pickett enters his second season within the league.
The crew went 9-8 and missed the playoffs however had a robust end, successful their last 4 video games and 6 of their final seven.
If wholesome, Robinson, who turns 30 in August, may very well be a strong third possibility behind Diontae Johnson and George Pickens at huge receiver.
The Steelers at the moment have the worst odds to win the AFC North at 6/1, based on FanDuel.