Tennessee Titans agree to trade No. 1 overall pick in NFL draft to Rams

Tennessee Titans agree to trade No. 1 overall pick in NFL draft to Rams

The Tennessee Titans agreed Thursday to barter the No. 1 all-embracing aces in this month's NFL abstract to the Los Angeles Rams.

This is just the seventh barter involving the top all-embracing aces back 1990 and aboriginal back 2004. That was if San Diego drafted Eli Manning and traded his rights to the New York Giants.

With the trade, the Rams now accept the adeptness to abstract the quarterback of their best and accomplish a burst as they achieve into Los Angeles afterwards abrogation St. Louis this year.

Under the deal, Tennessee swaps the No. 1 aces to the Rams forth with its picks in the fourth and sixth annular to Los Angeles. The Rams will accord the Titans their first-round aces at No. 15 forth with two second-round selections and their third annular aces in the abstract starting April 28. The Titans aswell will accept the Rams' first- and third-round annular picks in the 2017 draft.

Tennessee now has six of this draft's aboriginal 76 picks. General administrator Jon Robinson, assassin in January, is searching to clean a authorization that has gone 5-27 the accomplished two seasons.

"It is not generally that you accept the No. 1 all-embracing aces and we achievement to not be in this position again, but we approved to use that aces as bill to plan the abstract and aerate amateur acquisition," Robinson said in a statement.

Robinson said the accession of abstract picks for this year and next gives the Titans flexibility. So Tennessee ability not be blockage at No. 15.

"I would say it doesn't beating us out of any amateur except one," Robinson said. "We now accept the armament to plan the abstract and access players that are acceptable for this football team. In agreement of timing, it fabricated faculty for us to do this now as it gives us time to acclimatize and accomplish abiding we ambition added players."

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