Rams have promoted DT Doug Worthington to the active roster
from off the net
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Blue and Gold
Why Westbrooks to DE and Worthington to DT? Ethan was never backing up Aaron Donald this season. He was backing up Brockers. Early in the season Fairley was backing up Donald, but the week before the bye he backed up both Donald and Brockers (the week Ethan didn’t suit up). Therefore, with Long down and Ethan playing LDE, then yeah they can bring up someone to take his snaps inside, which would be Worthington who will back up Brockers (taking Westrbooks early season role).
As far as Worthington, I don’t know who has seen him play. All I know is he is tall and maybe 310-320 pounds. I think I will look up his 2010 season with the Redskins and find his 3 tackles . . .but not sure we can have a sense about him until he plays. So, as far as him being good at keeping Lbers free…he doesn’t have a lot of playing time for any of us fans to know. I just assume Waufle and Williams know what they are doing on the d-line ..
As for Ethan, he’s right, he had several “splash” plays in the 3rd quarter . . .he’s a bit slow in his takeoff . . .but he is very powerful, I posted vids of him in weeks 2-3 I think. He was 267 in college and maybe at combine, but he played at maybe 275-280 last year and this year maybe 285-290 or so.
Ethan has a good stance, really flat back in that stance, similar to Long’s in some ways. (Unlike Quinn with the high rear end) and he can knock back blockers and he hustles . . .he’s a really good backup. But there is a logjam at LDE now, with Long and Hayes, so they moved him to DT so he can get snaps. Now, with the injuries he’s filling back in at his best spot—just my opinion.