Tuesday, July 24, 2012

RamView, 7/24: Rookies report today

The new football season is here! Rookies begin reporting to Rams Park today. They will practice three times Wednesday - Friday before the veterans report. The first full-squad practice of training camp open to the public will be 3:30 this Sunday. None of the rookies-only sessions are open to the public.

Talk about how easy it is to sign all your rookies before camp, though, is apparently just that, talk. The Rams still have two players to get signed by my accounting - second-round pick Janoris Jenkins and third-round pick Trumaine Johnson. These two need to get in camp; the Rams are depending on them heavily this season. Can't have key rookies missing training camp practices right off the bat. At last word, the holdup on Jenkins is that the Rams want to pay his signing bonus in installments that he'll earn as long as he stays out of trouble, a sensible request. No idea what the holdup is on Johnson. I don't know if the players around him have signed yet or not. That's holding up some players around the league, even though it's still pretty clear what they're going to make for their draft position anyway. Enough dawdling, fellas. Get pen to paper and get yourselves into camp.

For the first, and probably only time ever, RamView actually got profiles up on all of the undrafted rookie free agents before the start of training camp. They're all linked on the Ramview.com draft page, or feel free to dig through this blog for them. One thing I need to do yet is tweak the ridiculous percentages I've put on the rookie FA's as their chances of making the team. That won't be tonight, though, as it's two in the freaking morning right now.

News here as it happens, but I'll likely be resorting to nightly posts this preseason.

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