* Injury report. The first bit of good news is that Sam Bradford is full-go. He did not appear to play with any limitations Saturday. The Rams will give him a day off here and there, but otherwise it looks like he can be turned completely loose.
As expected, Jake Long is limited. He's participating in individual work but not in team drills. I didn't see any issues for him in Saturday's drills, and he was in the drill where the o-linemen pushed each other up the hill in the middle of the fans, which had to be a pretty stern test for his knee. The Rams will take it easy with him but more and more I'm willing to agree that he'll be ready for the regular season.
An injury I was not expecting at all: Scott Wells. He's sat out both of the first two days of camp and I can't believe it's veteran rest. I have no idea what the injury is. He missed the final 1/4th of last season due to a leg injury I never heard described more specifically. Maybe he's still recovering from that. Don't remember anyone telling us that would be the case, though.
Other players down: Sammy Brown, William Hayes, Kadeem Jones, Johnny Millard. Two more rookies are on the non-football injury list. Christian Bryant is still out with the ankle injury that ended his season last year at Ohio State. Ethan Westbrooks is also out, with an unspecified injury. Whatever it is, it's fairly new. Several of those guys are going to be hearing the phrase "can't make the club from the tub" a lot in coming days.
* Speaking of which. Jamaine Sherman, a wide receiver from East Texas Baptist who missed all of OTAs with hamstring problems and went down again in rookie camp after a collision, has been waived/injured. He is replaced by Kourtnei Brown, a Clemson defensive end (the Rams need more at THAT position?) last employed by the Lions. He was signed as a UDFA after the '12 draft, I believe by the 49ers. He has also been with the Redskins, Bills and most recently the Lions, all without playing an NFL down.
* My report on my trip to training camp yesterday is already up here on the blog. The website is such a mess right now, I'm not sure when I'm going to get the report up there. I have enough difficulty keeping this thing up to date without also dealing with that. It's due for a significant overhaul. I will be out of town for a couple of days and traveling light, so no updates till at least Tuesday.
* Rams alumni report:
- Will Abasi Salimu come back to haunt the Rams? Cut right before the start of training camp, the UDFA offensive lineman has been picked up by the Browns, who will be the Rams' third preseason opponent.
- When the Rams came to St. Louis in 1995, who'd have guessed the best coaching talent of the franchise would turn out to be - tight end Marv Cook? The head football coach at Regina High in Iowa City, Cook led the team last year to its fourth straight state title. The Regals have a record of 87-5 under coach Cook and come into the '14 season on a 56-game winning streak, the longest in America. Belated congratulations to Marv, and apologies if I just jinxed the crap out of your upcoming season.
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