The Rams have officially announced the signings of free agents Leonard Floyd and A’Shawn Robinson, and in order to create the necessary cap space, Los Angeles has restructured the contract of quarterback Jared Goff, reports Lindsey Thiry of ESPN.com (Twitter link). The Rams will create $7MM in cap space via the restructure, per Adam Schefter of ESPN.com (Twitter link).
Because of their dire cap situation, the Rams were essentially forced to rework Goff’s deal in order to fit Floyd and Robinson on their roster. Over the Cap has already figured Robinson’s 2020 cap hit into Los Angeles’ figures, but it has the Rams at nearly $6MM over the cap without accounting for Floyd’s contract, which will reportedly pay him at least $10MM during the upcoming season.
Goff, 25, inked a four-year, $134MM extension with the Rams last September. He’d been scheduled to have a cap charge north of $36MM (yes, you read that correctly) in 2020, which would have been the largest figure in the league.
Instead, Los Angeles will convert most of Goff’s $10MM salary into a signing bonus and spread out that money over the next five years. While the move will give the Rams some breathing room in 2020, it will make it even more difficult to cut Goff down the line.
Maybe the worst contract in the NFL right now?
Big time. Awful player, tbh burrow looks the same. They both represent slow footed lumbering qb with mediocre arm that require excellent lines and wrs. Burrow was a no name before last year and played on a team that had depth at every position. When they showed burrows highlights and listed goff as a comp I nearly died.
Once gurley popped all eyes were on goff and now he just can’t live up to the hype. Shrank in playoffs before the contract and they still resigned him lmao.
Seahawks and niners have this divison for years with cards coming to. Rams are easily 4th team in division.
If you were in charge of a football team there would be a revolving door at QB every few years like the Browns. Not every player is the next Manning, Brady or Rodgers. Goff is not elite but he is a good player who many teams would love to have at QB. Nothing about his stats for the last 3 years say awful. You also said Lebron was having a bad year so your standards for players is comical.
Last year was awful plus his first year. Out of 4 years 2 have been terrible 2 have been slightly above average. Any way you slice it not worth 30 million a year. Instead once gurley wheels feel off and people wtched goff he looked like a deer in the headlights. Scared to stand and deliver, similar to the same footage we all saw at cal except most said he had no help. With the same team that made it to super bowl, man barely was able throw more tds than ints….Also never said lebron wasn’t having a good year that’s how we know you have no idea what your talking about lol.
Gurley had old man knees and they paid him big. He was the bad contract. 13-3 is not “slightly” above average. Watch the game vs the Vikings in 2018 and tell me thats just “stand and deliver”
One game doesn’t quantify that contract. Did you see the super bowl? Lmao trash
Agree with AFK. The bad contracts were Gurley and Cooks. Rams’ offensive line last year was injury riddled and mediocre. The Rams still went 9-7, and were 2 inches (Zeurlein missed FG in week 4) from going to playoffs.
Not even close. QB’s get paid and Goff is above average. The idea that Goff sucks is from causal fans who only watch ESPN or look at memes for football content. Worse contracrs are the RB the Rams just cut or the WR who the Texans gave them a 2nd round pick to take.
The fact you didn’t name the RB or WR shows you’re the casual fan. Goff was mediocre at best last year and a lot of teams exposed their offense.
I know their names dude, they are not the point. Goff was solid last year for being a pin cushion with that offensive line. The fact they won 9 games was a miracle. He was not the reason they regressed. Casuals blame the QB for everything that goes wrong.
I’ve been advocating a separate cap pool for QBs for a while now. Regardless of how good a QB might be you have to question if committing as much as 14 or 15% of available space on a single player is a sound business decision.
Les Snead should have been left go with Fisher . He has single handedly ruined this team . Giving away draft picks like the are a dime a dozen .Signong players to big contracts they can’t afford .
Afk and dball are spot on