The St. Louis Rams and quarterback Nick Foles have agreed on a new contract extension, the team announced on Friday. Foles will remain with the team through 2017 with a two-year extension. Selected in the third round of the 2012 NFL Draft, Foles was entering the final year of his rookie contract and was set to earn $1.5 million in 2015.
Nick Foles, Rams agree to 2-year extension
Foles is under contract with the Rams through 2017 after he was traded from the Eagles in the offseason.
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With his extension Foles will earn $24.5 million over 2016-2017, per Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Foles joined the Rams this offseason as part of a trade with the Philadelphia Eagles. Philadelphia sent Foles, a 2015 fourth-round pick and 2016 second-round pick for Sam Bradford and a 2015 fifth-round pick. Foles hasn't thrown a regular season pass for the Rams, but that didn't stop head coach Jeff Fisher from getting contract talks underway before training camp.
“I think what Nick has done early in his career, he’s proven that he can get the job done on the field,” Fisher told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in June.
Despite his short time with the Rams, Foles also seemed eager to get a new contract. “This is where I want to play,” the 26-year-old quarterback said. “As a player, you want to be somewhere and you want to play there the rest of your career.”
In 2013, Foles took over as the Eagles starting quarterback and had a fantastic run, completing 64 percent of his passes for 2,891 yards with 27 touchdowns and just two interceptions in 13 games. But he came back down to earth in 2014, completing 59.8 percent of his passes for 2,163 yards with 13 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in eight games. He missed the Eagles’ final eight games due to a broken collarbone.
Chip Kelly is building his roster in Philadelphia, and that roster apparently did not include Foles. Instead, Kelly is going with Bradford, a quarterback who has been injured so often most feel the Rams came out the other end of that trade looking a whole lot better than Philadelphia. Foles can probably go either way at this stage of his career, but the Rams feel like it will go positively given this extension.
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