Restructure Jared Goff’s contract
Goff has a cap hit of $36 million next year, the highest of any player in the NFL. No matter what, he’s going to cost the Rams a lot of money after signing that massive extension before the season. However, the Rams can restructure his deal to free up some cap space in 2020 by spreading out his roster bonus over the rest of the contract.
According to Spotrac, that would create $16.8 million in cap space for the Rams.
The #Rams will almost certainly restructure Jared Goff’s 2020 $21M roster bonus, a move that will clear $16.8M of space, almost enough to cover the $17.8M of dead cap they’ll take on should they find a trade partner for WR Brandin Cooks.https://t.co/l6eglTYea3
— Spotrac (@spotrac) December 30, 2019
That’s a big chunk of change in a year when the Rams could certainly use the money. They could turn around and use that newly found cap space to re-sign Ramsey, add a free agent or make up for potential dead money incurred by trading Brandin Cooks or Todd Gurley.
Restructuring Goff’s deal would decrease the Rams’ cap space in 2021 and beyond, but it would help in 2020.