Amari Cooper – Hot News – Transaction
WR Amari Cooper was traded by the Oakland Raiders to the Dallas Cowboys Monday. The Cowboys, who need help at the receiver position, sent a 2019 first-round draft pick to Oakland in return. Cooper, a Pro Bowl selection in his first two seasons in the league, is the second big-name player to be dealt by the Raiders in the past two months. Oakland traded defensive end Khalil Mack, the 2016 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, to the Chicago Bears in early September. The Raiders now have three first-round picks – their own, the Bears’ and the Cowboys’. Coopers’ numbers declined sharply in 2017, when he had just 48 catches for 680 yards and seven touchdowns in 14 games, including 12 starts. This season, while starting all six of Oakland’s games, Cooper has 22 receptions for 280 yards and one touchdown. In two games this year he had over 100 receiving yards, but he had fewer than 20 yards in the other four.
