St. Louis Rams Re-Acquire Quarterback Case Keenum

In the strangest of strange football events, the St. Louis Rams re-acquired quarterback Case Keenum from the Houston Texans on Tuesday afternoon in exchange for a seventh-round pick in the 2016 draft.

Keenum’s had a very odd career path, as he started off with the Texans, went to the Rams, went back to Houston, and now is back in St. Louis. He initially joined the Rams before the regular season opener in 2014 after being waived by the Texans. He served as a backup to Shaun Hill and Austin Davis, but he was released from the active roster in Week 9 when the Rams needed a roster spot. After being demoted to the Rams’ practice squad for a time, the Texans brought him home following a mass outbreak of quarterback injuries and had him start the last two games of the season.

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Though there was apparently mutual interest in a Rams-Keenum reunion, it’s rather odd that the Rams had to give up a pick (even if it was a seventh-rounder) for him. At least momentarily, Keenum would have fallen to fifth on the Texans’ quarterback depth chart, behind newly-acquired Brian Hoyer, freshly-resigned Ryan Mallett, 2014 starter Ryan Fitzpatrick (who apparently is generating trade interest), and second-year signal-caller Tom Savage. Even if Fitzpatrick were to be traded, it’s difficult to imagine a scenario in which Keenum would have stuck on the Texans’ roster.

Additionally, it’s kind of weird that Keenum apparently was able to further endear himself by starting two games for the Texans in two games at the end of the season. It’s not like his stats were exceptionally overwhelming, though; he completed 58.4 percent of his passes (45-for-77) while throwing for 435 yards, two touchdowns, and two interceptions. Obviously, the Rams didn’t respect him enough during 2014 to play him ahead of either Shaun Hill or Austin Davis, and they weren’t even willing to sacrifice a player at another position to bring him back to the active roster when Houston came calling.

With Hill out of the fold and Davis unlikely to be brought back as a restricted free agent, Keenum appears to be first in line at the moment to serve as the backup behind Nick Foles, <a title=”St. Louis Rams Trade QB Sam Bradford” href=”https://archauthority.com/2015/03/10/rams-trade-sam-bradford/”>who was also acquired via trade on Tuesday. Obviously if the Rams draft a quarterback early on in this year’s draft, things could change.

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