They could have done that, but having an opening on the 53 man roster affects who they can have on the pracrtice squad.

I think keeping the roster full is a priority ...but they could have renegotiated someone's contract if they really wanted to keep Brown.

Cooks, for example. His salary this year is $4M so the Rams still owe him about $2.1M for this season.

They could have converted that to a bonus of some sort and spread that $2.1M over 5 years. That works out to about $420,000 a year. So it would have saved the Rams $1.68M this season and added $420,000 to the caps in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

And Cooks would have been game because he would have been handed a check for $2.1M when the new contract was signed instead of getting a game check of around $235,000 every week for the next 9 weeks.

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