Where are they now?

A look at the former Rams who dropped off of this year's list (see previous post):

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Jake Long has had free agent visits with the Giants, Broncos and Falcons, and rumors are flying that Atlanta cut down to 52 today instead of 53 to keep a roster spot open for him. Long is 30, and it has to be noted that the last time he tried to come back off an ACL tear after ten months didn't go well.

Scott Wells had a free agent visit with the Titans in June but doesn't appear to have drawn any other interest. At 34, St. Louis was probably Wells' final NFL stop. 11 seasons, a Pro Bowl and a Super Bowl ring... not a bad career.

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Steven Jackson said he had no plans to retire after Atlanta released him in February, but he's gotten no interest around the league, despite his best efforts to get Dallas to sign him with his famous Bat Signal tweet. 11,388 yards and three Pro Bowls in 11 seasons for the 32-year-old Jackson if this proves to be it for him. He traveled through Central America this summer and appeared on ESPN's SportsNation and HBO's Ballers.

John Ramsdell retired in January after a 38-year career coaching in college and the NFL. His last job was as Carolina's senior offensive assistant. He was the QB coach of the Rams' Super Bowl XXXIV championship team.

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Jim Haslett had planned to take the year off, but is consulting the coaching staff at Penn State instead. It's not a high-paying position; he's actually making less than graduate assistants. The rumor mill believes DC Bob Shoop will be on the short list for head coaching jobs after this season and that HC James Franklin brought Haslett in to take over that role. Haslett's not part of the gameday staff by NCAA rule, so he can watch his son Chase QB at Indiana (Pa.) University on Saturdays and still work his way up to a promotion next year at the same time. Heck of a gig.

Fendi Onobun missed the 2014 season due to a torn quad and was not tendered as a restricted free agent by the Jagwires in March. It looks like he got married in Houston in July, so congratulations.

31-year-old Donnie Avery was a cap victim in Kansas City in February after a sports hernia limited him to 6 games and just 15 catches last season. I don't see that he got any interest around the league after that. He had 218 receptions and 14 TDs in 6 NFL seasons.

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Brady Quinn briefly attempted an NFL comeback in March and participated in the veteran combine. He'll stay in the broadcast booth for Fox's college football (he worked Saturday's UCLA-Virginia game) and NFL coverage (he'll work some games with Sam Rosen). He also writes columns for Football By Football and is heavily involved in his 3rd and Goal Foundation, which helps homeless veterans. So I'll make this the last time I make fun of him for signing with the Rams during the 2013 season and never playing a down here after hurting his back the first week of practice. Probably.

Cortland Finnegan retired in March but unretired last week, retaining Drew Rosenhaus as his agent. He's trying to make a comeback as a cornerback or a safety, which is where he'd likely play given his dropoff in speed over two years (2012-13) in St. Louis and last year in Miami.

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Wide receivers coach Henry Ellard and the Saints “parted ways” right after the 2014 season ended. I don't see that he's been picked up anywhere. He has won the triple jump the past two years competing in the 50-year-old group (he's 54) in the USATF Outdoor Masters Track & Field Championships, held this year at the University of North Florida. He also finished third in the long jump and fifth in the high jump. Ellard qualified for the Olympic trials while still with the Rams in 1992 but didn't make the Olympic team.

Peter Giunta was fired by the Giants after last season; I can't find anything for him since. He's been an NFL coach since 1991 and was a co-defensive coordinator for the Rams' Super Bowl XXXIV championship team.

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Todd Lyght is now the defensive backs coach at his alma mater, Notre Dame. He's also on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot for 2016. Lyght spent last season on Philadelphia's coaching staff.

When the Raiders hired a new coaching staff after last season, Al Saunders was offered a job in the front office, but he retired instead. Well, “retired”. He worked with the Dolphins' coaching staff during OTAs and has said he would come out of retirement if it was the right situation. Saunders, now 69, was the wide receivers coach for the Super Bowl XXXIV champions.

Denver Post

Brandon Lloyd was not re-signed by the 49ers after last season and hasn't been picked up, though he comes up in online speculation whenever a team (Green Bay, New England, Carolina) finds out it needs a receiver. For all I can tell, he may have gone back into aerospace sales, which is what he did when he retired briefly in 2013. Or he may have appeared in another zombie movie. If he does retire again, he'll have a hard time topping his first retirement, I expect.

The Rams did not re-sign guard Davin Joseph after last season, and he didn't draw interest from any other team. He recently helped provide 300 pairs of shoes to needy kids in his hometown, Hallandale Beach, Florida.

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Will Herring played pretty well on special teams for the Rams last season, but wasn't re-signed here or anywhere else. He did make an appearance on Southern Chaos, which is a reality show on the Sportsman Channel hosted by now-injured kicker Garrett Hartley and professional outdoorsman Josh Galt. Judging from his Twitter feed, he's staying very active with his family, with hunting and with his Auburn alma mater, which has me wondering how Les Snead could ever bear to let him go.

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