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STLToday / Yahoo

The Rams have signed three players to future contracts since the new year:

* Mitchell Van Dyk, one of their seventh-round picks from the 2014 draft. Very tall tackle who struggled mightily in preseason games;

* Damian Williams, a former Titans, Dolphins and USC WR who was here about a month last season and was active for two games. He had 45 catches in Tennessee in 2011 but has started only three games since then and had only one catch last season, in Miami;

* Michael Palardy, who will be the 2015 camp leg. He's listed as a punter but he was also a kicker at (the University of) Tennessee and was in camp last year with the Raiders. He didn't get a chance to do much there because he had to get an appendectomy. The left-footer averaged 44.5 yards per punt his senior year with the Vols.

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