After trading for cornerback Trent McDuffie, the Los Angeles Rams were quick to sign him to an extension and make him the highest paid cornerback in the NFL. The reported numbers for McDuffie\u2019s contract were four years for $124 million with $100 million of that guaranteed. However, the reported numbers of contracts rarely tell the full story, and that\u2019s also the case with McDuffie.<\/p>\n
\u201cMcDuffie\u2019s 2026 and 2027 salaries and roster bonuses are fully guaranteed at signing. If on the roster on the 5th day of the 2027 league year his 2028 salary is guaranteed. On the 5th day of the 2028 league year, $23 million of his 2029 salary is guaranteed. If on the roster on the 5th day of the 2029 league year he will earn a $5 million roster bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n
While it appears that McDuffie doesn\u2019t have any guaranteed money after 2027, his 2028 salary actually becomes fully guaranteed if he\u2019s on the roster on the fifth day of the new league year. The same can be said about his 2029 salary. Therefore, the Rams don\u2019t actually have an out in McDuffie\u2019s contract until after the 2029 season.<\/p>\n
That structure does make McDuffie tradable after this season before the fifth day of the 2027 league year, but in all likelihood, he will be on the roster over the next three years.<\/p>\n
With the contract, the Rams did seemingly lower McDuffie\u2019s 2026 cap hit. The former Kansas City Chiefs cornerback was set to count for $13.6 million against the cap this year and that was seemingly brought down to $10.8 million. However, his cap hit jumps to $30.8 million next year and if he\u2019s still on the roster in 2029, McDuffie will count for $33.3 million against the cap. If the Rams were to cut McDuffie after the 2029 season, they would save $30.1 million.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s essentially a four year, $107.5 million contract for McDuffie which is an average of $26.9 million per year. That\u2019s still expensive, but it\u2019s still cheaper than the $31 million APY that was initially reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After trading for cornerback Trent McDuffie, the Los Angeles Rams were quick to sign him to an extension…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,7357,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-817449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-salary-cap","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116245538315624833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}