I'm Hello and welcome to the Dynasty Dude podcast. I am your host, Corey Evans, and I wanted to bring you another show this week. It'll be a shorter episode, but we had a trade take place over the past few days in the NFL, and I thought it'd be very important to break that down from a fantasy football perspective.

Hence the episode title, fantasy evaluation of the Brandon Cook's trade. So I won't waste any time. We'll get right to it.

Brandon Cooks was traded and the deal was

Cooks and a 22 fourth round pick for the 57th overall pick in the 2020 draft. So in summary,

the Los Angeles Rams traded away Brandon Cooks for that draft pick to the Houston Texans.

Another head scratchy move on paper for the Texans organization after they shipped away

and traded D'Andre Hopkins to the Arizona Cardinals only a few weeks ago, it doesn't make much

sense.

They didn't want to ante up and pay Hopkins to a long-term contract, yet they brought in Randall Cobb,

and they also now brought in Cooks and his contract.

So I'm not quite sure what Bill O'Brien and company are doing in Houston when you're getting

rid of one of the best five receivers in all football in D'Andre Hopkins, but you're bringing

in a now admittedly strong supporting cast, but the financials just don't quite add up.

In fact, over the cap estimates that $21.8 million in dead money is what the Rams are

going to eat in the Cook's trade.

It's a new league record.

So not only at fault is Houston here for a somewhat questionable move, but the Rams

are going to forego a ton of money from this deal involving cooks.

Not to mention what they already had to eat from Todd Gurley when they outright released him

only a few short days ago.

Let's still break down team by team what this means.

That's why I want to evaluate the entire Brandon Cook's trade because there are a lot of fantasy

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