The Rams made a small move before the NFL’s trade deadline on Tuesday, agreeing to send cornerback Tre’Davious White to the Baltimore Ravens.
Baltimore sent a 2026 seventh-round pick to the Rams while receiving the Rams’ 2027 seventh rounder in exchange to complete the deal.
“We’ve done a lot of pick swapping in the past, so it was getting tough to swap picks,” Rams general manager Les Snead said when speaking with reporters after the trade deadline passed.
White was signed as a free agent this offseason to provide some experience at the cornerback position. The former All-Pro was coming off an Achilles tear suffered in 2023 while with the Buffalo Bills.
The original plan was for the Rams to slow play White into their rotation during the regular season, but training camp injuries to Darious Williams and Derion Kendrick forced White into a bigger role to start the season. He struggled through four games, and has been a healthy inactive for the past four contests.
Despite the scratches, head coach Sean McVay said that White stayed professional throughout the process while still supporting his teammates.
“You watch him on Tyler Johnson’s catch on the sideline on the first play of the offensive possession in overtime,” McVay said Monday, “it speaks a lot to the human being and the man he is.”
Snead said professionalism is part of why the Rams wanted to assent to his desire to find an opportunity with more playing time available to him.
“All of you on this call know we could next week have two corners go down and maybe who we elevate doesn’t provide what Tre does,” Snead said. “But I do think just from, let’s call it the human side of this business, we wanted to come up with a win-win for us and for Tre as it sits right now.”
With the Rams in the midst of a three-game winning streak and not adding any players to the roster at the deadline, Snead said he would wait until after the season to offer any final judgment on the way the roster was constructed and how it performed.
“We’re in the middle of it,” Snead said. “It’s a 17-round bout. It takes a little over six months to get through it, we’re about three months in. We’re 4-4, in terms of we won four rounds and we’ve lost four rounds. … The neat thing about that report card is it definitely puts you in the mix with the chance to play meaningful football over the next three months.”
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The Rams activated utility offensive lineman Joe Noteboom from injured reserve on Tuesday, the team announced.