The Los Angeles Rams traded Michael Brockers in a salary dump. The Detroit Lions acquired him to be more than a one-year rental.
Brockers signed a contract extension with the Lions over the weekend after the team acquired him in a Wednesday trade at the start of the 2021 league year.
Brockers, 30, declined to cut his $6.5 million base salary in half coming off a steady five-sack season, which prompted the Rams, in need of both cap and cash space, to deal him for a 2023 seventh-round draft pick.
"I’d say this about Brockers," Lions coach Dan Campbell said Friday.