Gurley's entire contract with Rams is guaranteed
• By Jim Thomas
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/foot...cle_994401dc-cbc3-5429-a678-c6c158bb2217.html
The contract for Rams first-round draft pick Todd Gurley, the running back from Georgia, calls for him to make $13.823 million dollars over four years.
The entire contract is guaranteed, with the Rams even including language in which they agree to pay his full base salary in 2015 and 2016 if Gurley's on the non-football injury list in either or both of those seasons.
(That's a worst-case scenario guarantee if he has further issues due to the knee injury suffered late last season with the Bulldogs and subsequent surgery.)
Included in the overall contract is a signing bonus of $8.313 million. Gurley, the 10th overall pick in the draft, counts a modest $2.513 million against the salary cap this season. His cap number never is higher in any one year than $4.398 million over the life of the contract.
With the Rams announcing the signing of their entire draft class last week, all those contracts are now on file with the NFL Players Association.
Other than the top two picks, Gurley and right tackle Rob Havenstein, the only guaranteed money for each member of the draft class is signing bonus money. In addition to his signing bonus money, second-rounder Havenstein has his base salary guaranteed in both 2015 and '16.
Here's the contract breakdown for the 2015 draft class. In some cases, numbers are rounded off:
RB Todd Gurley Georgia 1st round (10th overall)
4 years, $13.823 million; $13.823 million guaranteed; $8.313 million signing bonus.
OT Rob Havenstein Wisconsin 2nd round (57th overall)
4 years, $3.970 million; $2.198 million guaranteed; $1.147 million signing bonus.
OG Jamon Brown Louisville 3rd round (72nd overall)
4 years, $3.251 million; $764,816 signing bonus.
QB Sean Mannion Oregon St. 3rd round (89th overall)
4 years, $3.251 million; $626,796 signing bonus.
OT Andrew Donnal Iowa 4th round (119th overall)
4 years, $2.777 million; $496,936 signing bonus.
OG Cody Wichmann Fresno St. 6th round (215th overall)
4 years, $2.370 million; $90,484 signing bonus.
LB Bryce Hager Baylor 7th round (224th overall)
4 years, $2.352 million; $72,140 signing bonus.
DE Martin Ifedi Memphis 7th round (227th overall)
4 years, $2.351 million; $71,096 signing bonus.
In addition, the Rams signed sixth-round wide receiver Bud Sasser of Missouri to a four-year, $2.393 million contract which included a signing bonus of $113,736.
When Sasser was waived off the non-football illness list because of a heart condition, the team agreed to let him keep the signing bonus. But the rest of the contract was voided once he was released and not claimed by another team.
So the only part of Sasser's contract that counts against the team's 2015 cap is the $113,736 signing bonus.
With all of the rookies signed, the Rams now have $6,648,852 in remaining salary.8cap room for 2015.