RamView, 6/25: Might the Rams be healthy for a change in 2012?

* For the last several years, one thing the Rams have excelled at is racking up a number of injuries approaching a comical level, culminating in last year's epic "13 cornerbacks on injured reserve" stat. Every year recently, one of Rams Nation's best reasons for hope for the new season has been that the team can't be as banged up as it was the year before. Yet last year's Rams seemed to have more injuries than Iraq did during the Gulf War.

Dare we hope this is the year the injury plague leaves the Rams at least less scathed than usual? Reports out of last week's minicamp give some reasons for hope:

- Head coach Jeff Fisher says 89 players on the current 90-man roster will be good to go for the start of training camp. The only question mark is tight end Michael Hoomanawanui (ACL), who will be getting cleared right around the time training camp starts.

- That means good news for several players. Bradley Fletcher is well ahead of schedule on his ACL rehab and will be 100% by training camp. He wasn't full-speed for OTAs, but participated in all workouts, working at nickel and getting occasional starter reps. (Cortland Finnegan and Janoris Jenkins are the current starting corners.) If Fletcher recovers fully, Finnegan lives up to his big contract and Jenkins stays the hell out of trouble and lives up to his draft hype, the Rams will have gone from the most-injured secondary in their history to one of the more dynamic secondaries in their history.

- Rodger Saffold has bounced back from his torn pectoral and then some. Reports are he's really hit the weights and has packed on a good 10-15 pounds of muscle to his upper body. That plus Paul Boudreau's coaching are already expected to improve his ability to withstand a bull rush by leaps and bounds.

- For crying out loud, Danario Alexander has even managed to stay intact for several days in a row, and was making impressive plays by the end of minicamp.

- Not that the Rams are fully out of the woods. One big concern is that the projected starting offensive line has yet to take a snap together. Saffold and Jason Smith have been limited all offseason, and free-agent center acquisition Scott Wells hasn't even been to Rams Park to my knowledge. He had his knee scoped in the offseason and is also attending to family issues.

- Then there's Sam Bradford's apparently-permanently sprained ankle. Though camp reports say he's looking and throwing great, Bradford is telling reporters his ankle STILL is not 100%. He "hopes" it will be a non-factor by training camp.

Yeah, you and several million fans.

- There were also assorted minor injuries during minicamp that reportedly won't amount to much. Finnegan sat out the last couple of days with a hand or wrist injury. Lance Kendricks missed practices with hand/wrist/ankle injuries. Jermelle Cudjo sat out for unspecified reasons.

Get used to seeing "unspecified reasons" a LOT on this summer's camp reports, assuming I can get much of anything out. (My current workload's making that a lot less likely than the past couple of seasons.) Fisher regimes have been tight-lipped in the past with injury information.

* In former Rams news, Oshiomogho Atogwe was signed by the Eagles last week. Yes, the same Eagles who spent $tens of millions on their secondary last season. Funny thing, though: don't rule out Atogwe as their opening-day starter. Their safety play was bad enough last year that a lot of draft analysts were expecting them to draft Mark Barron or try to trade up for him.

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