Advertisement
Archives

Pankey Ends Holdout, Will Sign With Rams

By CHRIS DUFRESNE
Share

Left tackle Irv Pankey will end his 31-day holdout today and sign a two-year deal that will make him the sixth-highest paid Ram.

Pankey will earn $340,000 this year and $345,000 in 1988, with a chance to realize $30,000 in incentives each season.

Pankey, 29, has been a holdout since veterans were due to report July 26.

“It’s not bad for the Rams,” Pankey’s attorney, Peter Funsten, said of the deal.

The only Rams who will earn more than Pankey in 1987 are Eric Dickerson, $683,000; Nolan Cromwell, $400,000; Jackie Slater, $400,000; Henry Ellard, $375,000, and Dennis Harrah, $345,000.

Advertisement
Archives
Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

Advertisement