Cooper Kupp is staying in the NFC West.
The Seahawks have agree to terms with the former Rams wide receiver on a three-year, $45 million contract, NFL Network Insiders Ian Rapoport, Tom Pelissero and Mike Garafolo reported on Friday.
Kupp, an All-Pro and former Offensive Player of the Year, spent the past eight years in Los Angeles, where he racked up 634 career receptions for 7,776 yards and 57 touchdowns.
A key member of the Rams' Super Bowl LVI-winning squad during the 2021 season, Kupp won the game's Most Valuable Player in the win over the Cincinnati Bengals, an exclamation point on a campaign in which he captured the receiving triple crown with 1,947 yards and 16 TDs on 145 catches.
Injuries and time have taken their toll since, though, leading the Rams to move on from one of their franchise greats after a trade failed to materialize at the start of free agency.
Seattle swooped in to add him following his March 12 release, introducing a veteran presence to a wide receiver room that just lost two longtime contributors.
Kupp's signing continues the Seahawks' complete offensive overhaul this offseason.
The team released wideout Tyler Lockett on March 5, and four days later traded DK Metcalf to the Pittsburgh Steelers. That left Jaxon Smith-Njigba, a breakout star, as the team's top WR.
Much like Kupp, Smith-Nijgba can find open space on short and intermediate routes at will and move the chains, while the 6-foot-4 Jake Bobo and speedy signing Marquez Valdes-Scantling currently make up Seattle's bigger-play threats.
They'll all be catching passes from new quarterback Sam Darnold, replacement for Geno Smith, who was traded to the Las Vegas Raiders.
The flurry of moves will make for a much different receiving corps in the Emerald City, but for Kupp, at least, there's familiarity.
Although L.A. has been home for eight years, the 31-year-old grew up in Washington and attended school at Eastern Washington.
He's headed back there now, where he can face his old team two times a year as the squads fight it out for divisional supremacy.
