The Los Angeles Rams have several priorities to take care of this offseason, from signing their own free agents to exploring other players on the open market. Four key starters – Rodger Saffold, Dante Fowler Jr., Ndamukong Suh and Lamarcus Joyner – are set to hit free agency next week, all of whom the Rams would likely love to keep.

Unfortunately, there’s a salary cap preventing that from happening and it’s possible the Rams will lose all four in free agency. One player who’s still under contract, though, is Marcus Peters. The Rams picked up his fifth-year option last year, keeping him in L.A. through 2019 for $9.1 million.

The team can move on from him before that figure becomes official at the start of the new league year, but that seems unlikely to happen. The Rams can also sign him to an extension in order to lower his cap hit and keep him around long term, but Les Snead indicated contract talks will have to wait.

“Because his situation is a little less urgent on the timeline — because it’s not running out here in March — what we like to do is, hey, let’s take care of the urgent business first, and then get through it,” Snead said, via Myles Simmons of the team’s official site. “At that point, you’ve got to recalibrate and see where you stand. Many variables — dollars and budget being one — and then you get to the summer months and start talking about, OK, is there the Rob Havenstein? Is there the Brandin Cooks that you’d like to get done?”

The Rams typically take this approach with players who are still under contract. Rather than extending them before the draft and free agency, they wait until the summer to take care of those issues. They did that with Todd Gurley, Rob Havenstein, Aaron Donald and Brandin Cooks last year, and it seems the same approach will be used with Cooks.

Snead did say the team has had discussions about a long-term deal, “both internally and with the player’s representation at the time of the initial trade,” Simmons wrote. The Rams will take a look at the cornerback position with Peters and Aqib Talib’s contract expiring after next season, potentially leaving a hole at cornerback in 2020.

The safe move would be to let Peters play out the 2019 season on his fifth-year option before extending him, but perhaps the Rams feel good enough about his talent to make that deal happen this year.