The perception is that when a team hands out a big contract or two in the same offseason, they’re going to be strapped for cash in the immediate future. This year, the Los Angeles Rams proved that’s not exactly the case.
As they have in the past, the Rams managed to actually create cap space in 2022 by extending Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald and Cooper Kupp. They were all already under contract in 2022, but the Rams gave each of them a new contract, and in each instance, their cap hit dropped for this year.
In total, the Rams saved $13.05 million in cap space this year. Here’s how it breaks down, with the 2022 cap savings of each player’s new contract.
