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The LA Rams strategy for the 2020 NFL Free Agency market was clear. But will it be as clear this year? That’s the million-dollar question right now.
You see, the team made it a point to avoid shopping for free agents whose contracts had expired. Rather, the team sought to avoid any offset to their compensatory draft picks. After all, the defined algorithm requires offsets of lost free agents by those who are signed in the same year. Teams can avoid that offset by shopping for players who were cut by their previous team.