One can hardly blame the Los Angeles Rams for their freewheeling spending ways, since it was this same level of “never stop building the roster” exuberance that got the team to two Super Bowls over four years with one championship win. We expected the Rams to have to suffer for their post-Super Bowl overspending last season, in 2023. After surprisingly making the playoffs last season, it turns out that the worst of it may have been delated a year.
And it has something to do with nearly $70 million in Rams cap spending, or approximately 25% of the 2024 salary cap, on players who aren’t helping the team right now or ever again.