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USA TODAY Sports The Rams expected their first taste of playing at SoFi Stadium to come in a preseason game against the Saints on August 14, but the NFL’s decision to call off the preseason due to the COVID-19 pandemic meant they had to wait a week to get on the field. For quarterback Jared...

Getty Images With 2,560 current roster spots, the third overall pick in the 2014 draft currently doesn’t have one of them. Quarterback Blake Bortles remains a free agent after his one-year contract with the Rams expired. His coach in 2019 is surprised by that result. “I am surprised, just...

Getty Images From time to time on PFT Live, the control room torments me with one specific highlight from December 28, 1975, the day the Cowboys ended Minnesota’s season with the NFL’s first-ever Hail Mary play. The play had a controversial ending, given that Vikings cornerback Nate Wright...

Getty Images Earlier this month, Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald made it clear that he won’t wear a face shield in 2020. On Wednesday, he reiterated his position, but he also made it clear that he’s not actively telling teammates to decline the piece of added protection developed by Oakley...

Getty Images The Rams Offense is going to look a bit different this year after the offseason departures of running back Todd Gurley and wide receiver Brandin Cooks. A committee of backs is expected to step in for Gurley and the team took wide receiver Van Jefferson in the second round to help...

Getty Images Michael Brockers didn’t expect to be practicing in Thousand Oaks, California, this summer. The defensive tackle signed a three-year, $30 million contract with the Ravens in March. But the pandemic prevented the Ravens immediately from examining his ankle, which he injured in the...

Getty Images The Rams have paid quarterback Jared Goff like a franchise quarterback. The jury remains out on whether Goff truly is a franchise quarterback. “I think he’s just continuing to grow,” coach Sean McVay told reporters on Tuesday when asked whether he’s seen improvement in Goff during...

Getty Images The Bills added some depth to their defensive line on Sunday. The team announced that they have signed defensive tackles Tanzel Smart and Justin Zimmer to their active roster. Wide receiver Nick Easley and defensive tackle Niles Scott were waived in corresponding moves. Smart was...

Getty Images When it comes to streaming options, Peacock is our main squeeze. But a football audience wants football content, and when football content is available for free, we owe it to our audience to point it out. Case in point: HBO is making the first episode of the new season of Hard...

Getty Images Oakley spent plenty of time and effort creating a face shield for 2020. Now Oakley has to find players who will actually wear it. Several weeks ago, Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt made it clear that he’s not interested in wearing one. On Thursday, Rams safety John Johnson said...

Getty Images The Rams cleared their COVID-19 list Friday. The team announced that linebacker Terrell Lewis had been activated from the reserve/COVID-19 list. The third-round pick from Alabama was placed on the list on July 31, and he was their only remaining player on the list. They also...

Getty Images Raiders wide receiver Tyrell Williams is glad not to be on Hard Knocks again this year. Williams said he didn’t really grasp how big a distraction the reality TV cameras were last training camp until this year, when he has realized it’s a lot easier to focus on the task at hand...

Getty Images HBO didn’t draw much of an audience for the season premiere of Hard Knocks. The first episode of this year’s NFL training camp reality show drew just 273,000 viewers, according to Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal. That’s a huge decline from the 705,000 who watched the first...

The 15th edition of Hard Knocks opened with a bang with Chargers coach Anthony Lynn speaking to his team on a Zoom call. “I can’t promise you you’re not going to get infected,” Lynn said in the opening scene. “I got infected.” Chargers pass rusher Joey Bosa had a look of surprise after the...

Getty Images The total number of cases of COVID-19 seen at the SoFi Stadium construction site has reached 75, according to Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported an additional 15 cases over the last week as the project progresses...

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports The city of St. Louis’ continues lawsuit against the National Football League over its relocation of the Rams franchise to Los Angeles has requested depositions from over 40 NFL officials, according to Ben Frederickson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In total, the...

USA TODAY Sports Jon Gruden went from the Monday Night Football booth to a NFL head coaching job and another NFL head coach reportedly got a pitch from ESPN about making the opposite move. Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports that ESPN approached Rams head coach Sean McVay about taking...

Getty Images Tavon Austin may be back in the NFC West soon. NFL Media reports that Austin is working out with the 49ers and that the defending NFC champs intend to sign him if all goes well. Austin opened his career as a Rams first-round pick in 2013 and spent the first five seasons of his...

Getty Images Todd Gurley is gone. The Rams’ running back position will look like more of a committee approach. But every committee benefits from having a chairman, and the chairman of the Rams’ running back committee will be veteran Malcolm Brown. “It’s been easy to fall into that role,” Brown...

Getty Images The Rams placed defensive tackle A'Shawn Robinson on the non-football injury list on Saturday and it’s unclear when he might be able to rejoin the active roster. Players are often placed on the list for a short period at the start of camp before being activated, but head coach...