The Rams remain 4.5-point favorites to beat Arizona in the Dome tomorrow. Kickoff is 3:25 p.m. There are still tickets for sale at last word, but enough have sold to get the game on TV locally (KTVI).
Starting lineup:
- Chris Williams won the training camp battle at LG and will start Sunday.
- Rodney McLeod and T.J. McDonald will be the starting safeties. It's not completely clear if McLeod will continue to start if Darian Stewart is ever healthy ever again.
- Benny Cunningham will return kicks.
Injuries:
The Rams look pretty good from an injury standpoint, though I guess we can worry a little bit about their special teams depth. Out for Sunday:
- Cory Harkey (knee)
- Quinton Pointer (thigh)
- Darian Stewart AGAIN (hamstring)
- Jonathan Stewart (hip)
Chris Long missed the final week of training camp due to a "tweaked" knee, but says he feels good now, describing his health as both "fantastic" and "awesome".
Jermelle Cudjo and Lance Kendricks, who missed most and all of training camp respectively, are both reportedly full-go.
Matt Giordano, who also missed all of training camp, returned to practice Wednesday.
Matt Daniels has a cast on his arm, and recent practice reports have described him as limited, but he's not on the Rams' injury report at all.
Arizona is also in pretty good shape injury wise. They do list TE Rob Housler (ankle) as out, which takes away a target for the Rams' pass coverage to worry about, though he hadn't looked very good in preseason anyway. Calais Campbell (quad) is questionable; won't hurt any to have him slowed down. No one else is worse than probable, including Rashard Mendenhall, so the Rams better be ready for him.
Not so done:
Linebacker Jo-Lonn Dunbar may return to the Rams after his league suspension runs out. The move to release him earlier this week is now believed to have been a move to get the Rams under the salary cap by the league deadline. It saved the Rams $1 million against the cap. The Rams may try to bring Dunbar back with a cheaper deal.
Former Rams roundup:
Since the last mega-update:
- Quintin Mikell signed with the Panthers. The Panthers were the main team talking to Mikell all offseason. They finally had to make a move after losing Haruki Nakamura due to a concussion.
- Matt Mulligan was picked up, and released, by the Patriots;
- Andrew Hawkins (ankle injury, as seen on Hard Knocks) hit the IR/return list;
- Tampa Bay put Danny Gorrer (groin) on the IR/return list and re-signed Gary Gibson;
- "Thad" Lewis was signed to Buffalo's practice squad;
- Fendi Onobun was signed to Chicago's practice squad.
I'll do my best to have RamView out by Monday night. Sorry yet again for the lack of updates... I lost my lunchtime wireless connection earlier in the week. Not the worst Rams blog on the web for nothing...
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