The long-term status of Los Angeles Rams cornerback Trumaine Johnson will play a big role in the draft plans for the team later this week.

However, as of Tuesday it seems Johnson does not want to get traded to a new team. He said he loves his teammates and would like to sign a long-term deal.

Rams CB Trumaine Johnson: “I’m here because I love my teammates. I don’t want to leave and hopefully we get a long-term deal.” — Gary Klein (@LATimesklein) April 25, 2017

Rams general manager Les Snead also spoke about Johnson during the pre-draft press conference.

Today he’s a Ram. First walk-thru, and then we’ll get this minicamp going and it’ll go through OTAs, and the plan I mentioned is still the same. It’s not necessarily going to affect the draft at all. We’ll try to rank the corners from top to bottom. You can always use more than one or two or three good corners. His situation won’t affect it, but right now he’s a Ram, and we plan to go from there.

Johnson appears to no longer be on the trading block, which is where he has felt he was previously this offseason.

The Rams cornerback also had high praise for new coach Sean McVay, who he called good for the team.

It’s good news he is interested in negotiating a long-term deal, rather than the current franchise tag that will pay him lucratively this season.

If Johnson and the Rams agree on a deal, they can have a shutdown corner moving forward. But as Snead indicated above, that does not mean the team won’t draft another player as well.