The Los Angeles Rams have lastly seen sufficient of Cam Akers and have despatched him to the NFC North.
Akers has been traded to the Minnesota Vikings for what can greatest be described as extraordinarily low compensation.
Comp replace: Rams are buying and selling working again Cam Akers and a conditional 2026 seventh-round choose to the Minnesota Vikings in alternate for a conditional 2026 sixth-round choose.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 20, 2023
Minnesota has had just about no working recreation via two weeks and their backfield previous to this commerce consisted of Alexander Mattison, Ty Chandler, and former Washington Huskies star Myles Gaskin.
Akers was a wholesome scratch in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers, every week after he put up one of many least efficient 20+ carry performances in fashionable NFL historical past in opposition to the Seattle Seahawks. Whereas Akers did rating a landing (that evidently ought to’ve been disallowed), he completed the day with 22 carries for 29 yards, which is the fourth-lowest dashing complete on that many makes an attempt because the merger. He’s not had a constantly productive profession in LA, and he misplaced nearly all of 2021 to an offseason Achilles rupture.
Ranks in rush yards over expectation (Subsequent Gen Stats):
2022 Cam Akers: thirty third (or 48)2022 Dalvin Prepare dinner: thirty fourth (of 48)
2023 Cam Akers: thirty seventh (of 37)2023 Dalvin Prepare dinner: thirty sixth (of 37)
— Arif Hasan, however NFL (@ArifHasanNFL) September 20, 2023
In different phrases, this isn’t a shock that Akers has been dealt. Kyren Williams was most well-liked to him in the beginning of this season, and the writing was just about on the wall from that time on.
