Rams GM Les Snead agrees to new contract extension, making him among highest-paid personnel execs in NFL

The Los Angeles Rams and general manager Les Snead have agreed to a contract extension Thursday that makes him among the highest-paid GMs in all of the NFL, sources told CBS Sports.

The defending Super Bowl champions plan to soon announce the extensions for both Snead and head coach Sean McVay, who in early August revealed he had already signed his extension.

“You’d be foolish, when you look at how hard it is in this league to win, not to try to keep together a pair that’s done it really well,” Rams COO Kevin Demoff said in March.

Snead, 51, has been the Rams’ GM since 2012. He signed an extension in 2019 that reportedly tied him to the team through the 2023 season. The Super Bowl LVI victory in February made it a given that both Snead and McVay would receive extensions.

Snead has become known for his wheeling-and-dealing ways when it comes to draft picks. The Rams haven’t had a first-round pick since 2016 and won’t have one until 2024 at the earliest. Snead’s draft-picks approach has generated a hilarious meme and impacted how teams have come to view high draft picks. This past draft, a record-low 22 teams wound up with at least one first-round selection.

The Rams have gone to the playoffs in four of the past five seasons with Snead and McVay. Since 2017, the Rams have won 55 regular-season games, third-most in the entire NFL.