The rams can control Donald for 6.9 mil this year. Right not the Franchise number for DT is 15.2 Mil. I don't see any signings on the horizon that will change that so lets for arguments sake say it is 15.2 and 17 mil for 2 years of franchising him. I would argue that he makes out better signing a 17 mil per year contract right now for 6 years. That is 12 Mil more that he would earn in the next 3 years and he would have guarantees. Is he going to sign a contract after that the will pay him more than 12Mi over the last 3 years at 17Mil. Maybe but there is time value of money by getting more up front and the safety of the guarantee. 17 per year with $40 mil signing bonus would be hard to beat.
