Cam Akers’ days in Los Angeles are numbered and there are several teams that could use him.
Rams head coach Sean McVay said the team is working toward trading the fourth-year running back after making him a healthy scratch in Week 2 against the 49ers. McVay expressed confidence that a trade will be completed and Akers has played his last snaps with the team.
“That won’t be an opportunity,” McVay said of Akers sticking around. “It will be an opportunity to move … I feel good about the opportunity to be able to move him, but we won’t go back and forth on it.”
After the injury to Nick Chubb, the Cleveland Browns are one of many teams that have looked into trading for him. The other teams are the Baltimore Ravens, the Las Vegas Raiders, and the Los Angeles Rams.
Cleveland needs to add more depth in the backfield but Browns HC Kevin Stefanski noted they expect RB Jerome Ford to be their new starter.
“Well, we’re working on (finding a back),” Stefanski said. “Andrew (Berry) and the personnel department are working through options. You don’t, as you know, you don’t replace Nick Chubb. You just don’t do that. Great players in the league, you look around, they go out. It’s always not one person that replaces a player of his caliber. So everybody’s got to do a little bit more, a little bit more everywhere. But we’ll look at options there in terms of who we bring in.”
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Akers was a second-round pick of the Rams out of Florida State in the 2020 NFL Draft.
Last season, the 24-year-old rushed for 786 yards on 188 carries and seven touchdowns to go along with 13 receptions on 18 targets for 117 yards.
In Week 1 of this season, Akers rushed 22 times but for only 29 yards.
