Rams GM: Donald extension 'budgeted' despite busy offseason

No team has arguably been bolder this offseason than the Los Angeles Rams, who've made huge splashes by trading for the likes of Brandin Cooks, Aqib Talib, and Marcus Peters, and signing Ndamukong Suh in free agency.

However, there's apparently been little movement regarding reigning Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald's impending potentially record-breaking contract extension.

Speaking at Cooks' introductory press conference, Rams general manager Les Snead reassured the fan base that Donald remains a top priority.

"We've got good dialogue with their agents. I'll keep all of that in-house, but none of it affects Aaron Donald," Snead said, according to Jeremy Bergman of NFL.com. "He's one of 53 and as I've said plenty of times before, we've got that budgeted into the budget. We didn't do all this and forget about him for sure."

Not only is Donald waiting for a big payday, Peters and Cooks will also need significant long-term extensions soon, as the former is a free agent after the 2018 campaign, while the latter hits the open market the year after.

The Rams are set to the have the second-most cap space in the league in 2019 but will need to use a huge chunk of that to secure their impressive group of young talent.