Rams report, 11/29: Chris Long activated

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It's unknown how many snaps he's scheduled to get, but Chris Long will be active for tomorrow's game against the Oakland Raiders. Linebacker Marshall McFadden, of last week's phantom holding penalty fame, was released so the Rams could put Long back on the main roster.

In a move earlier this week, the Rams called up TE Justice Cunningham from the practice squad (giving them FIVE tight ends) and cut WR Damian Williams. Enough tight end injuries have piled up around the league that they were afraid of losing Cunningham to another team.

Might as well catch up with the ex-Rams-and-family updates while I'm at it:

* New England signed Matthew Slater to a two-year contract extension;
* Houston signed Thaddeus Lewis;
* Arizona signed Matt Mulligan;
* Cleveland signed Zac Diles;
* Dallas signed Robert Steeples to their practice squad;
* Tampa added Denicos Allen back to their practice squad, and released Quinton Pointer;
* Carolina waived Chris Ogbannaya;
* New Orleans waived Brian Leonard.

Latavius Murray is out for tomorrow's game for the Raiders due to a concussion. I think that greatly reduces the threat their running game will pose, but I've been wrong about this kind of thing before. The Rams are 6.5-point favorites and are favored straight-up by 94% of fans. I believe it's the first time they've been favored since the first two weeks of the season, and they split those two games.

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