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Even this early in the new NFL Free Agency market, mumblings and whispers are forming about the LA Rams‘ early flurry of activity. The Rams have been struggling for the past several years to free up sufficient funds quickly enough to make signings and extensions obviously simple. Instead, the Rams fight the salary cap constantly, a battle of pushing money into other years, locking up guarantees, and then changing their mind about the player.
Dead cap and all, the Rams dove headfirst into the 2021 NFL season with the trade for Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, and in the process had to swallow over $22 million of dead cap money for the unrealized signing bonus for quarterback Jared Goff.