Clay Matthews signing costs Rams compensatory pick – for nowIn the last two offseasons, the Los Angeles Rams have signed exactly one player who qualified for the compensatory pick formula. Every other free agent was either released by his former team (Ndamukong Suh) or signed a contract so inexpensive that it didn’t count toward the equation (Ramik Wilson).
The one signing that factored into the formula was Clay Matthews. The Rams signed him to a two-year deal with a base value of $9.25 million – a reasonable contract for a veteran linebacker. However, with that signing, the Rams could lose the fourth-round compensatory pick they were slated to get for the departure of Lamarcus Joyner.
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