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My crystal ball says that to make these contracts happen, Brockers is going to get traded.
We have three players making high dollar beyond what they produce: Brockers, Saffold & Barron. You can't lose Barron since we're flipping 3 of our 4 LB positions this year. We have no depth behind Saffold, and McVay is an offensive guy first and foremost. He's not going to mess with a good thing. Meanwhile, we drafted 3 DE's this year, to add to our collection from last year. We have a lot of depth there.
AD is going to need a chunk of salary cap, salary cap we simply don't have. Someone has to go. It'll be the guy who can free up around 9 .5 million.
They can pay AD this year out of what they have under the cap now through a combination of converting his contract this year into a pro-rated signing bonus pay out, and then putting a big guaranteed hit in 2019. No one has to go.
They can do the same thing with Cooks, only if anything he has more current cap space than they need to do the "convert to a signing bonus" move. So that represents a bit more space that can or most likely will be freed up.
According to cap analysis, winning teams devote 60% of their cap to around 10 players. In the future, the Rams have the space to sign Goff (even at 30+ M), Donald, and probably up to 6-7 others. But that's looking at 2020 and beyond. By then the cap should be around 200 M and 60% if that represents 120 M.
If you make it Goff, Donald, Cooks, and Peters, though, that probably leaves space for 3-4 others, depending.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/26/2018 03:59PM by zn.
