The Rams didn’t have a game last week, but they were still trying to take care of some business.
Cornerback Janoris Jenkins said that the team offered him a contract extension that would keep him from becoming a free agent at the end of this season. Teams haven’t been throwing in Jenkins’s direction often this season and they haven’t had much success when they do look in his direction, which makes the desire to keep him on the roster easy to understand.
Jenkins isn’t willing to take the plunge, however. Jenkins, who has two interceptions this season and nine for his career, wants to table any contract talk until the entire season has played out.
‘I’m not talking about the contract,” Jenkins said, via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I ended that last week, when they gave me those numbers. It was something I didn’t want to hear. I ended it just like that. I’ll play it out. I’m gonna bet on myself.”
The Rams’ other starting corner Trumaine Johnson will also be a free agent after the season, which could mean a lot of change on the back end of the defense in St. Louis, Los Angeles or anywhere else the Rams might call home in 2016.
