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Rams 2019 free agency preview: Does C.J. Anderson help L.A. long term?
Rams 2019 free agency preview: Does C.J. Anderson help L.A. long term?
Prediction: Signs two-year, $6.5 million elsewhere
Veteran running backs have a hard time making significant money. They wear down as time goes on and while Anderson is only 27 years old, he’s not exactly the young buck that some of these other players are.
It’s hard to fathom paying him more than players like Melvin Gordon, Sony Michel, Nick Chubb, Dalvin Cook and Joe Mixon, but at $3.25 million per year, that’s exactly what could happen. Obviously, all of those players are on their rookie contracts, but it shows the value teams can get out of drafting running backs.
The Rams can keep Malcolm Brown on an original-round tender at $2 million, or even bump it up to a second-round tender for $3.1 million in 2019. He’ll be cheaper than Anderson in the short-term, and with John Kelly as RB3, they have good depth at the position.
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