Texans WR Brandin Cooks Seems to Have the Wrong Idea About What it Means to Be Traded 3 Times
Brandin Cooks entered the NFL in 2014, and will be on his fourth team in 2020 as a member of the Houston Texans. He has been traded three times in his career already, and it would be easy for him to get frustrated about teams giving up on him and moving on as a result.
Yet, that is not how Cooks views the situation at all. He actually sees the constant moves as a good thing -- that it means he is "wanted."
This is certainly a unique way to look at the situation, to say the very least.
Texans' Brandin Cooks on being traded by Saints, Patriots, Rams: 'I take it as a positive that I'm wanted and I'm valued at a high level still to this day. Teams want me and my former teams say, 'This is such a great deal for both sides' https://t.co/qcmZmvgqn0
— Aaron Wilson (@AaronWilson_NFL) April 30, 2020
Either Cooks is the ultimate optimist or he truly doesn't think being trade can possibly be a bad thing. Three teams have essentially given up on him, and two of those teams had traded for him in the first place. New Orleans traded him to New England, who traded him to the Los Angeles Rams, who traded him to Houston.
All of these deals have taken place since the 2017 offseason. Take from that what you will.
Brandin Cooks: "Talking to Billy O, I got off the phone with him and felt like I wanted to run through a brick wall."
— Aaron Reiss (@aaronjreiss) April 30, 2020
Cooks has been part of deals in which first-round picks have been exchanged for him, so that may be where his logic comes from. If anything, it is good to see him keep a positive outlook, right? That is a much better alternative than being bitter and realizing that the Saints, Patriots, and Rams all thought their teams would be better without him in town.