Their total player contract expenditures NOW is $203,960,993 but that includes all the players in camp. Their adjusted at the start of the season will be around $4.8M under the cap. But that's assuming a lot of things. But taken at face value lets say they extended Jared to $33M/yr. That would increase his cap hit from $8.8M this year to that amount. So where is the cap space going to come from? They would need to clear at least $20M to pay for the increase just to break even on the cap.
I laid it out in other threads. Basically by not resigning Whitworth, Talib and Peters they can move that cap money to extend both Goff and Fowler to market level contracts and have no real impact on cap space which will increase next year to allow them to extend other players as well.
I'm not saying that absolutely that is how it will work. But rather how it could work next year with 3 players in contract years not being extended. It's also showing why they aren't talking extension for Fowler or Goff this year.
They're not giving Goff $33 million this season. You apparently are the only person in the universe who thinks that's possible.
Next year his cap hit is over $22 million. He is signed for that. They MIGHT use some of their $50 million in cap space next year to give him a raise over that for an extension - not likely, but it's possible. But it's not going to be a $25 million additional in cap hit, since his cap hit for next season is already over $22 million.
Whitworth is a non-issue. He nearly retired after last season, and the Rams drafted several OT replacements. IF he comes back, it is at a pay cut, not the same salary, and certainly not a pay raise.
No poster here believes that the Rams will try to sign both Peters and Talib. Long was drafted as a replacement for one of them. Peters is almost certainly going to price himself out of the Rams' reach. Talib might be back, if he plays well and is affordable.
Now, before any additional signings, the Rams have nearly $50 million in estimated cap space for 2020. That's AFTER Goff's pay raise for next year to over $22 million. So if they sign him long term, that will eat up a few million of that. Signing Talib or another FA CB will eat up some of that. Then there will be some space used up signing players the Rams feel they need, who likely can't be predicted yet. They won't have space for everybody they might want, but they will fill holes with free agents while drafting others to fill more holes, and promoting players from within to fill other holes.
