The Rams are making the move from St. Louis to Los Angeles next season. There's a few players the team should leave behind.
Below are the first three the franchise is better off severing ties with in 2016.
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Nick Foles
Admittedly, cutting Nick Foles will be a headache in 2016 -- a headache the Rams created by needlessly signing him to a two-year extension in 2015.
Foles is due to count $8.75 million against the 2016 salary cap, per Spotrac. As much as $8 million of that will be guaranteed thanks to a roster bonus, signing bonus and base salary. The Rams could declare him a post-June 1 cut to make it a $7 million hit.
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Either way, that's a lot of money to spend on a QB who's not even on your roster ... but what's the point in keeping him?
Foles was benched in favor of Case Keenum last season, and only managed seven TDs to 10 INTs.
Even if the Rams can save $1.75 million by letting him go, it's money worth recouping.
Nick Foles to start this weekend. Condolences #Rams fans. https://t.co/0QXep3vQVA
— Will Reeve (@WillReeveJr) December 4, 2015
Kenny Britt
Now Kenny Britt, that's a different story. The WR will count $4.85 million against the cap next season, but none of it will be in dead money, per Spotrac.
Britt caught just 36 balls for 681 yards and three TDs in 2015 -- a total hardly worth his price tag.
Chris Long
The Rams are better off restructuring Chris Long's contract, but cutting him remains a viable option.
The former first-round pick will carry the highest cap it of any player in 2016 ($14.25 million), per Spotrac. That would be a bargain if this was 2011, where Long recorded 13 sacks, but it's not. This is 2016 and Long is one year removed from recording three sacks in just five games.
He only started six games the year before.
There's $12 million to recoup should the Rams release him.
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