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Getty Images NFL teams have until May 4 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET to exercise fifth-year options on 2017 first-round draft choices. The window to sign those players to contract extensions opened Dec. 30, with Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey becoming the first to get a new deal. Some of...

Getty Images Offensive lineman Coleman Shelton signed his exclusive rights free agent tender with the Los Angeles Rams on Monday. Additionally, the team waived linebacker Jeff Holland. Shelton appeared in 11 games last season for the Rams with most of his snaps coming on special teams units...

Getty Images Everyone was worried during the draft that one of the old guys like Giants General Manager Dave Gettleman would be the one to screw up the technology. But during his first virtual offseason meeting with his team Monday, it was 34-year-old Rams coach Sean McVay who couldn’t quite...

Getty Images Football coaches love nothing more than a routine. Now that no one has one, they’re being forced to look for creative ways to reach their teams. Via Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times, Rams coach Sean McVay said he talked to L.A. Clippers coach Doc Rivers for tips on meeting...

Getty Images The Rams drafted nine players over the seven rounds of this year’s draft and they announced the signing of 20 more rookie free agents on Sunday. Included in the group are a pair of quarterbacks. Before the additions of Josh Love and Bryce Perkins, the Rams only had John Wolford on...

Getty Images All the pre-draft technology worries have proved unfounded. Thankfully. But the Rams barely averted a problem Friday night. Rams General Manager Les Snead revealed he lost internet service about 10 picks before the 52nd overall choice. Rams IT manager Jeff Graves saved the day...

Getty Images The Rams have reworked offensive tackle Rob Havenstein‘s contract to create salary cap space. Field Yates of ESPN reports the team converted $2.34 million of Havenstein’s base salary into a signing bonus. That creates $1.56 million in additional salary cap room for 2020. The Rams...

Getty Images Todd Gurley out. Cam Akers in. The running back-needy Rams have used their first pick in the 2020 draft on Florida State running back Cam Akers. Akers had 1,144 yards rushing for the Seminoles in 2019, scoring 18 total touchdowns. The Rams have Malcolm Brown and Darrell...

Getty Images The Rams got a second-round pick for Brandin Cooks, and used it to find a replacement. With the 57th overall pick, the Rams took Florida wide receiver Van Jefferson, the son of longtime NFL wideout and Jets receivers coach Shawn Jefferson. The younger Jefferson led the Gators...

Getty Images The Nikefication of the NFL is nearly complete. Whenever the Rams unveil their new uniforms (and it’s unclear when that will happen), they will become the seventh team to change their look for 2020. Seven teams. Seven. The Buccaneers. The Falcons. The Colts. The Browns. The...

Getty Images When the Rams traded wide receiver Brandin Cooks to the Texans this month, head coach Sean McVay called it one of several “tough decisions” the team has made after failing to make the postseason in 2019. On a Tuesday conference call, McVay said the team is also feeling good about...

Getty Images From the moment defensive lineman Michael Brockers returned to the Rams after a failed deal with the Ravens, some league insiders wondered whether linebacker Leonard Floyd (pictured) and/or defensive lineman A'Shawn Robinson would have their tentative L.A. contracts fall apart, due...

Getty Images The United States Supreme Court won’t be taking on a case involving the Rams’ move to Los Angeles. The city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority filed suit against the Rams and the NFL alleging breach of contract, fraud...

Getty Images The Jaguars are indeed looking to trade running back Leonard Fournette, PFT has confirmed. So will the Jaguars find someone to take Fournette, the fourth overall pick in the 2017 draft (a/k/a the guy taken four spots before Christian McCaffrey, six before Patrick Mahomes, and seven...

Getty Images The stadium to be shared by the Rams and Chargers will not open as scheduled in July. SoFi Stadium announced on Friday that a two-night Taylor Swift event, set for July 25 and 26, has been postponed until 2021. Those were the first events on the SoFi Stadium calendar. “We will...

Getty Images The Rams could use some cap space, and quarterback Jared Goff currently is gobbling up the most of it, with more than $36 million attached to him in 2020. Speaking to reporters on Thursday via videoconference, Goff said he’s willing to agree to the kind of restructuring that...

Getty Images The Rams became the third team to trade wide receiver Brandin Cooks when they shipped him to the Texans earlier this month and the frequent trades led to a question for Rams head coach Sean McVay during a visit with Jay Glazer of FOX Sports on Wednesday night. Glazer asked McVay...

Getty Images Among the “tough decisions” that the Rams have made this season were the decisions to release running back Todd Gurley and linebacker Clay Matthews despite both players having guaranteed roster bonuses. Gurley was owed $7.55 million, Matthews was owed $2 million and both players...

Getty Images Rams center Brian Allen was the first active player to test positive for COVID-19, and the Rams have taken steps in hopes he’s the only one. According to Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times, Rams senior director of sports medicine and performance Reggie Scott said Allen was the...

Getty Images The Rams surely want to keep receiver Cooper Kupp beyond this season. Kupp, 26, heads into the final year of his rookie deal unconcerned about the future. He will make a $2.13 million base salary this season and expects a new deal to take care of itself. The sides, though, have...