Human interest stories can be the best part about sports, and Trent McDuffie being traded from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Los Angeles Rams is most definitely a sports story, but it’s a human interest one too because back in August 2025, McDuffie was asked if there was another team in the NFL he’d consider playing for?
Can you guess who that team was? Did my headline not give it away?
Said McDuffie at the time when asked if there was another team he’d like to play for:
“What other team would like
to play for?… You gonna try to get me in trouble…let’s think…if I could play for another team, I’d probably want to play close to my family, so that’d probably be…the L.A. Rams so that my family could come and see every single game.“
McDuffie is a California kid, seemingly born and raised, so it should be no real surprise that when asked the “hypothetical” question that he would end up picking his home state of California.
To be fair, with regard to the clip and McDuffie’s previous quote, the audience seems to be mostly kids and they are laughing as McDuffie tries to navigate the question. At the time, this story would’ve been seen as a light-hearted interaction, but jump forward to 2026 and McDuffie will reportedly be a member of the Rams on March 11th, the new league year.
All of the sudden, that innocent question, the playful response and the fun video, have a ton of meaning.
Not even McDuffie may have seen this one coming, but he should know now that he’ll have to keep his word, and he’ll have plenty tickets to get for his family this season, so they can come and watch him play in L.A.
