I think they need to do everything they can to keep Dotson.
If Aleric Jackson gets top 5-10 OLT money from some team, the Rams will no longer have the security of being able to move AJ to ORG if they draft a new OLT. They will be down 2/5 very good players.
If the Rams do retain AJ in the battle to sign him as a OLT, then they likely will be overpaying him in a move him to ORG.
At the very least it has to be one or the other. If they come out of this off-season having lost both AJ and Dotson, then it will be a huge disappointment.