Floyd’s $64M, Jackson'$4.5M: Ogletree, Tavon, Cooks, Gurley, Goff

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Leonard Floyd's $64M deal named worst contract on the Rams

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The last player they gave a big contract to was Leonard Floyd, who signed a four-year deal worth $64 million back in March. It comes with $32.5 million fully guaranteed in the form of a $14 million signing bonus and $18.5 million in guaranteed salary the next two years.

Spielberger points out that DeSean Jackson’s $4.5 million “will also likely not look all too great when the season is done,” and that Goff’s $24.7 million in dead money this year was also in contention to be picked as the Rams’ worst – even though he’s not even on the team.

Ogletree, Tavon, Gurley, Cooks & Goff are always going to be brought up as terrible kneejerk premature contract extensions.

They got all of these terribly wrong to some degree.

There were pros and cons to doing these extensions but they will go down as very bad football investments by the Rams brass anyway you spin it.

Alec Ogletree, Rams agree on 4-year, $42M extension

Rams sign WR Tavon Austin to 4-year, $42 million extension

Rams' Brandin Cooks signs five-year, $81M extension

Todd Gurley, Rams agree to 4-year, $60M extension

Rams sign Jared Goff to four-year, $134 million extension


The latest investments

Rams re-signing Leonard Floyd to 4-year, $64 million deal

DeSean Jackson's contract with Rams is for $4.5 million

Robert Woods gets 4-year, $65 million contract extension

Cooper Kupp, Rams agree to 3-year, $48M extension



Anyone bickering that the Rams paid too much for Floyd's extension and then offering injury prone over the hill DeSean Jackson a $4.5 million contract is understandable unless you work for the Rams.

The Rams organization has a history of giving premature big money extensions to players that backfired on them.

Some of them were bad luck and some of them could be viewed and rushing to judgment.

I was totally on board with Floyd's contract.

I'm pretty sure he would've gotten a similar contract offer from another team in free agency.

I was skeptical about how much they had to pay to bring DeSean Jackson on board.

I was on board with both of the Woods and Kupp extensions.

We all expect Stafford will be the next mega buck extension.

The Rams are not shy about taking gambles on contract extensions.

Their batting average for success is not good but the odds are they will finally hit on a few of them.

The organization knows their past failures and I'm hoping they've learned from past mistakes going forward.








Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/19/2021 04:43PM by Florida_Ram.