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Jared Goff to sign rookie deal with Los Angeles Rams

By Kevin Patra
Around the NFL writer
Published: June 9, 2016 at 10:58 a.m. Updated: June 9, 2016 at 12:02 p.m.

The Los Angeles Rams are about to lock up No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff.

The quarterback is expected to sign his four-year contract Thursday, per NFL Media's Steve Wyche according to a team source. As with all first-round contracts under this CBA, the deal comes with a fifth-year option.

L.A. got the deal done ahead of next week's mandatory minicamp, which will enable the starting quarterback to participate fully without outside distractions.

Goff is expected earn the starting quarterback gig from Day 1. The Cal grad already owns better accuracy and arm talent than the heap of middling signal-callers clogging the Rams' roster.

Wyche adds the Rams put their rookies through a multi-week, life-skills training program -- which includes financial management -- before signing them to their deals.

Los Angeles shipped a boatload of picks to Tennessee for the right to draft Goff and place him as the starting quarterback, face of the franchise and cornerstone. For Jeff Fisher's perennially 7-9 squad, which lacked a functional quarterback, the rookie is seen as the missing piece to finally getting over the hump.

Whether that happens in 2016 or takes him a couple years to integrate into the league, Goff owns the talent and mental acumen to become a successful NFL quarterback -- hopefully leading the Rams out of the spell of mediocrity.

Putting pen to paper was the first step in that journey.

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The rest of the Rams' draft picks are expected to sign today too.

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Rams sign Jared Goff along with all their other picks

Posted by Josh Alper on June 9, 2016, 4:02 PM EDT

The Rams take their time when it comes to signing draft picks, but they don’t stretch the process out once it gets started.

News came Thursday morning that the Rams would sign first overall pick Jared Goff before the day was out and the Rams made it official in the afternoon. The announcement that Goff was under contract came shortly after the team announced that the other five members of the 2016 draft class had agreed to their deals.

The other five are fourth-round tight end Tyler Higbee, fourth-round wide receiver Pharoh Cooper, sixth-round tight end Temarrick Hemingway, sixth-round linebacker Josh Forrest and sixth-round wide receiver Michael Thomas. All five signed four-year deals while Goff’s contract comes with a team option for a fifth year.

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