The Oakland Raiders reportedly have made another major trade.
The Raiders traded wide receiver Amari Cooper to the Dallas Cowboys, multiple media outlets reported Monday.
The Cowboys, who need help at the receiver position, sent a first-round draft pick to Oakland in return.
Cooper, a Pro Bowl selection in his first two seasons in the league, is the second big-name player to be dealt by the Raiders in the past two months.
Oakland traded defensive end Khalil Mack, the 2016 NFL Defensive Player of the Year, to the Chicago Bears in early September.
The Raiders now have three first-round picks — their own, the Bears’ and the Cowboys’.
The trades came in the first year of Jon Gruden’s second stint as the Raiders’ head coach.
Cooper was the fourth overall pick in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft. As a rookie with the Raiders he had 72 receptions for 1,070 yards and six touchdowns and was named to the Pro Bowl. He was a Pro Bowl selection again in his second season, when he had 83 catches for 1,153 yards and five scores.
His numbers declined sharply in 2017, when he had just 48 catches for 680 yards and seven touchdowns in 14 games, including 12 starts.
This season, while starting all six of Oakland’s games, Cooper has 22 receptions for 280 yards and one touchdown. In two games this year he had over 100 receiving yards, but he had fewer than 20 yards in the other four.
The Raiders are 1-5 and their only victory was an overtime win over the Cleveland Browns.
Oakland lost to the Seattle Seahawks 27-3 in London on Oct. 14 in its most recent game.
Cooper suffered a concussion in that game.
The Cowboys (3-4) have needed help at the wide receiver position since the departure of Dez Bryant.
Cole Beasley is the team’s leading receiver with 33 catches for 350 yards, but he is generally considered a possession receiver.
No other wide receiver has more than 13 catches.
Cooper is in the final year of his rookie contract. Next year, under a fifth-year option, Cooper will earn $13 million.
