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The LA Rams have not been very prudent in their salary cap management. In fact, the team’s decision-making process when focused upon an individual player seems to run the gamut of ‘must have at any cost’ to ‘must get rid of at any cost’. That oscillation between extremes is very concerning. Why? Well, look at many of the LA Rams’ major contract extensions so far.
Of course, Aaron Donald’s extension is already a huge bargain. But other contracts? Those of WR Brandin Cooks, RB Todd Gurley, and even QB Jared Goff, proudly signed as recently as just 18 months prior, were all convincingly overpayments less than two years after the fact.