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Lindsey ThiryESPN
Former Los Angeles Rams avid gamers Todd Gurley and Clay Matthews have claimed on Twitter that the Rams are at the back of on handing over paychecks.
“@RamsNFL overdue. Ship me cash ASAP,” Gurley wrote in a tweet Wednesday.
Matthews retweeted Gurley, including, “You and me each TG! Higher get some pastime with that too.”
You and me each TG! 😤 Higher get some pastime with that too 📈 https://t.co/E8RIOhg7sH
— Clay Matthews III (@ClayMatthews52) April 9, 2020
The Rams launched Gurley and Matthews on March 19.
Gurley signed a one-year, $5.Five million contract with the Atlanta Falcons on Monday. Matthews stays an unrestricted loose agent.
The Rams consider they’re in complete compliance with the language within the avid gamers’ contracts, a supply informed ESPN. The workforce declined remark.
The Rams launched Gurley not up to two years once they signed him to a four-year, $60 million extension that integrated $45 million in promises. They designated his liberate as post-June 1, which permits the workforce to unfold the dead-money cap fees of $11.75 million over two seasons. The Rams can even have $5.Five million in cap financial savings on June 2.
Los Angeles stored $3.75 million in salary-cap area through slicing Matthews.
Following their choice to chop Gurley, the Rams owed him a $7.55 million roster bonus. On account of offset language in Gurley’s contract, the workforce does now not must pay him $2.Five million of what’s owed.
Matthews was once due a completely assured $2 million roster bonus, alternatively his contract additionally has offsetting language for $2 million.
This is not the primary time Gurley has publicly commented on cash owed to him through the Rams. Overdue final month, Gurley commented, “@Rams thank you for the test these days” on an NFL Instagram publish that featured him dressed in a Falcons uniform.
