Although it already was pretty obvious the Los Angeles Rams thought of Jared Goff as their franchise quarterback, the team confirmed that Tuesday.
The team announced that Goff had agreed to a four-year contract extension worth $134 million that will keep him with the Rams through 2024. Terms of the deal were not immediately available and the salary cap hit for top quarterbacks can range as high as $30 million for this year.
But it’s likely Goff’s deal was structured in a way to lessen the cap hit in the early years of the deal by spreading his new deal over the life of the contract. Goff’s new deal is better than the four-year extension for $128 million that the Philadelphia Eagles gave quarterback Carson Wentz in June.
Goff had been entering the fourth year of a deal that gave the team an option for a fifth year. He had been scheduled to earn $4.3 million this year and $22 million in 2020. There’s no doubt Goff just got a big raise. But the structure of the deal likely frees up a lot of cap room this year and in 2020.
And it’s worth it for the Rams. Goff has a 24-14 record as a starter over three years and took the Rams to the Super Bowl last season.
