The Rams have had needs at the wide receiver position for a long time now, and while they are clearly spending top dollar to change that, their methods are more than a little bit concerning.

After handing Tavon Austin a four-year, $42 million dollar contract that they really couldn’t afford in the 2016 offseason, most people assumed they’d try to get lucky by signing another veteran free agent with something to prove. It worked with Kenny Britt last year.

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Instead, they brought in former Bills utility receiver Robert Woods for a hefty $34 million – doubling down on their risky plan to commit an egregious amount of money to a receiving corp that may or may not be healthy and may or may not have a quarterback capable of getting them the ball.

Here are stats compiled by Scott Barrett of Pro Football Focus that show the percentage of its salary each team will allocate to each positional group in 2017:

Using OTC data, here’s how each team is allocating their money spent at each position for the 2017 season. pic.twitter.com/DG8Q7fbonT — Scott Barrett (@ScottBarrettDFB) March 21, 2017

You’ll notice that an alarming 17% of the Rams salary is being spent on wide receivers – which is perplexing considering they had the worst receiving corp in the NFL last year and their only move has been to replace a 1,000-yard receiver with a guy who’s never broken 800 yards in a season.

So the question remains: who’s making all that money?

Only 2 teams have a higher % of money allocated to the WRs than the Rams next year. 98% of that going to just Tavon Austin and Robert Woods. https://t.co/RtVR8EA8PV — Scott Barrett (@ScottBarrettDFB) March 21, 2017

It works out that almost all of the payroll that the Rams have put towards wide receivers is for Austin and Woods. So unless they are the next great pass-catching duo in the NFL, the Rams have all but guaranteed they can’t live up to their contracts.