With contract talks heating up, Aaron Donald a no-show at Rams OTAsBy VINCENT BONSIGNORE |
vbonsignore@scng.com | Daily News
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first.
Such as it is, anyway.
The Rams kicked off Day One of their full-team Organized Team Activities on Monday in Thousand Oaks and Aaron Donald, their best player, was nowhere to be found.
Oops.
Granted, these practices are voluntary and thanks to the Collective Bargaining Agreement it’s not like anyone gets fined or punished if they blow one off.
But let’s not kid ourselves. With the precious little off-season time coaches and players get to work together on the field these days, it’s strongly suggested in the strongest of terms that players show up.
So clearly something had to be awry for Donald to just skip it.
And something is up indeed..
Turns out Donald’s absence is contract-related, according to Rams general manager Les Snead. Or, to be more specific, Donald desires to renegotiate his contract to make it more reflective of his status as one of the top two defensive linemen in the league.
And while his current deal still has two years remaining on it – the one he signed as a rookie after the Rams selected him 13th overall four years ago – he’s really not keen on letting another day go by, let alone 24 more months, before getting paid what he’s truly worth.
That means a new contract that falls somewhere between the six years, $114.3 million Miami gave defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh three years ago and the six years, $102.6 million the Philadelphia Eagles gave Fletcher Cox last year.
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