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Jerry Gray Reportedly Agrees to One-Year Contract With Rams

By CHRIS DUFRESNE
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Ram cornerback Jerry Gray has agreed to terms on a one-year contract that will reportedly pay him about $500,000 in 1990, a source close to the deal said Monday.

Gray, who will make his fourth consecutive Pro Bowl appearance this season, just concluded the last year of a contract that paid him $250,000 in 1989. Gray would have become a restricted free agent Feb. 1, meaning he could have accepted offer sheets from other NFL teams and signed for the price of compensation to the Rams--two first-round draft choices.

Gray, 27, led the Rams in interceptions in 1989 with six and also had 79 tackles. He led the Rams with 23 passes defended against during the regular season.

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Gray, the team’s first-round draft choice of 1985, was a free safety at the University of Texas who was converted to cornerback when he joined the Rams.

And although he has been named to the Pro Bowl four times in five seasons as a cornerback, Coach John Robinson plans to move Gray back to free safety next season.

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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).

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