Jalen Ramsey tweets, deletes post about Rams possibly trading him

Jalen Ramsey thought better of saying out loud that he might be on the trade block.

As the eagle-eyed folks at ProFootballTalk observed, the star defensive back on the Rams tweeted and then deleted a post saying he might get traded.

“I can PROMISE you, I won’t get cut . . . now trade? Maybe lol,” Ramsey responded to a tweeter speculating that he might get cut this offseason.

Eventually, Ramsey reposted a response that said, “100% chance I WONT get cut . . . God bless tho.”

In 2020, Ramsey signed a contract worth over $100 million over five years. The deal still carries $32.1 million in dead cap in 2023, and $11.4 million in dead cap in 2024.

The 28-year-old Ramsay started all 17 games for the Rams this past season and recorded four interceptions. He made his eighth straight Pro Bowl.

The Rams are in a tricky position. They pushed all their chips to the middle of the table and came out of it with a Super Bowl championship last season, but there are salary cap and draft ramifications to work through. They went 5-12 this past season amid a rash of injuries to keep players such as wide receiver Cooper Kupp and quarterback Matthew Stafford.

While this record would have garnered them the sixth overall pick in the draft, the Rams sent that pick to the Lions in the trade for Stafford before the 2022 season.

The silver lining for the Rams is that Sean McVay announced he will be returning as head coach, after dabbling with the idea of walking away.

“McVay has gone back and forth on the decision and needs time to get away to process all that has transpired over the past year: winning a Super Bowl, being courted to work in television, getting married, watching his wife’s home country of Ukraine invaded, losing his grandfather and then coaching a team that has fallen short of its expectations,” Adam Schefter reported before McVay opted to return.