The first shoe has dropped in the new running back contract kerfuffle and it begins with one that wasn’t even needing to be done.
Todd Gurley is close to signing a four-year $60 million extension with the Los Angeles Rams including $45 million in guaranteed money.
Rams and RB Todd Gurley finalizing agreement on a 4-year extension worth $60 million that includes $45 million guaranteed that ties him to LA for the next six seasons, source tells ESPN. Finally a deal that resets the RB market.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 24, 2018
This sets the market for the running backs, as it was the Le’Veon Bell contract that he turned down a 5 year $70 million deal, that would have set the market.