The Los Angeles Rams had what general manager Les Snead described as “productive talks” with Aaron Donald’s CAA-based representatives at the scouting combine in Indianapolis, specifically because they were able to agree on a timeline for a potential extension.

“Obviously, they represent other players, and coming into this weekend, they’re juggling a lot of things too,” Snead said from Rams headquarters on Wednesday,nfl jerseys cheap nike the first day of the new league year, shortly after introducing Aqib Talib and Marcus Peters as the team’s new starting cornerbacks. “We came up with a nice timeline that we’re going to work with, and we’ll get to work and try to hammer this thing out. The theme will always be that we want Aaron to be a Ram a long time.”

Donald, who held out so long last summer that he missed the regular-season opener, is heading into the fifth and final year of his rookie contract, set to pay him $6.89 million. The reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year instead seeks an extension that would make him the game’s highest-paid defensive player and potentially put him among the top earners at any position, including quarterbacks.

But the Rams have other business to take care of first. They previously made four significant trades — adding Talib and Peters, parting with Alec Ogletree and Robert Quinn — but didn’t add anybody on the first day of free agency. The Rams are still in desperate need of players who can rush the quarterback and stop the run, and Snead said he is “definitely” confident that he can find fits on the free-agent market, even though most of the best available assets are off the board.

Soon, the Rams will begin their offseason program, and Donald might not show up if his contract is still up in the air. The hope is that his absence doesn’t extend into another training camp.

“Until the issue is fully resolved, you never know exactly how it’s going to play out,” McVay said.cheap nike nfl jerseys china “What I do feel better about is the personal relationship that Aaron and I have now established, having been together over a year. I think one of the things that was unique to that is when he holds out [last year], when he’s not taking part in the offseason programs or in training camp, there’s no personal rapport that prior to that even existed. So, it was a lot easier for him to ignore my texts. Now, I think it’ll be a little bit more difficult. I can be more persistent.”