Unless the plan is to get rid of Cook or this deal is heavily backloaded, this contract makes no sense whatsoever.
Maybe this has more to do with having a new OC. Maybe Cignetti, along with Boras' feels that Kendricks was underutilized by Schottenheimer. And thus feel that the Rams would be giving up on a valuable piece to the offense.
We don't really use OLB besides Ogletree due to our defensive philosophy and with getting rid of Bradfords contract we can still do all of the aboveI like Kendricks, but that's a bit expensive for my taste.
With Cooks and our other solid blockin TE's, I would rather sign a Center, OLB, a top CB, and Barksdale.