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Lindsay ThiriESPN
The Los Angeles Rams and Jalen Ramsay have agreed on five-year, $ 105 million expansion terms, the largest ever deal for Cornerback, agent David Mulugetta told ESPN’s Adam Schaefter.
Rams became the first defensive back in NFL history to sign more than 100 100 million in deals, and on signing is the largest guarantee of his .2 71.2 million defensive back.
Rams announced a five-year deal without value on Wednesday.
The previous largest contract for Cornback in terms of average annual value was Darrell Ravis’s ૧ 1.8 million a year, when he signed a six-year contract in 2001 after trading from New York Jets to Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Ravis was not presented with the following se fee.
An All-Pro and three-time Pro Bowl selection, Ramsey becomes a long-term fixture on a defense including two-time NFL defensive player of the year Aaron Ron Donald, who signed a six-year, 135 million extension before the 2018 season.
Ramsay is the fourth player since 2018 to have Rams signed a record-breaking extension, the other being Donald, quarterback Jared Goff and running back Todd Gurley, whom they cut in March.
At the start of the training camp, 25-year-old Ramsay said he was not worried about the expansion as he prepared to enter the final season of his rookie deal, valued at 13.7 million.
“I’m trying to do my job as a footballer. I’m trying to be a leader in the team,” Ramsey said. “If it comes, it will come. It will be a surprise to me, just as it will be a surprise to all of you.”
“Ramsey dominated the training camp, the first with his team,” said Rams coach Sean McVeigh.
“I felt like I had an appreciation for the way he played and watched him from afar,” McWay said. “But now, really getting a glimpse and the more competitive performance we’re getting in these training camp settings, it’s even better than I thought.”
First-year defensive coordinator Brandon Staley is expected to use the lockdown cornback in a variety of ways this season. Ramsay said before the training camp that he would be considered a defensive back instead of a cornbuck in 2020.
Ramsay acquired Ramsey in October last year, sending his 2020 and 2021 first-round picks and 2021 fourth-round picks to the Jacksonville Jaguars, who picked Ramsay with a fifth pick in the 2016 draft, the year Rams chose Goff No. 1. .
In nine games with the Rams last season, the Rams blocked one pass and had four pass defects and forced.
His arrival in Los Angeles marks a new beginning after Jacksonville’s Khadatekra’s tenure, which came to a head in the first half of the 2019 season.
After a week 2 defeat in Houston, Tom Cufflin, then vice president of Jaguar’s football operations operations, advised Ramsay on his actions during the game, which included a one-sided screaming match with coach Doug Marron.
The Rams played against the Tennessee Titans the following Thursday but did not practice the following Monday due to illness. He then missed Wednesday’s practice due to a back injury and on the same day it was announced that Ramsay would return to Tennessee’s hometown of Ville Seville for the birth of his second daughter. Ramsey spent the next three games idle due to the subsequent issue, then was sold to the Rams, where he was immediately cleared to play.
On the episode of “Hard Knox: Los Angeles,” Ramsay said October 15, the day he was traded, was “one of the best days of my life.”
In 60 career games, Ramsey has blocked 10 passes, returned for a touchdown, and has 49 pass defects and three forced outbursts.
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