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http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/st.-louis-rams/cap/
This is a close as I have seen Spotrac. If you delete Watts, who is on the SUS, You get ~4.7 million. I guess it works that when Watts comes off the SUS, the Rams will gain ~400k. Like if you took a player off IR. imo
AgamemnonWide receivers
By Colin Lindsay | August 23, 2015
No Comments‘Tis better to receive … The wide receiver position has been one of the positions of choice at recent drafts. Indeed, two receivers were taken among the first 7 picks in each of the past couple of drafts, including former Alabama star Amari Cooper and West Virginia’s Kevin White who were the 4th and 7th picks respectively by Oakland and Chicago at the 2015 draft. At the same time, a total of 11 WRs were taken in the opening round of the past two drafts combined, the most of any position.
And there likely won’t be a huge drop-off in the talent level at the position at the upcoming draft, although time will tell whether the WRs come off the board quite as quickly this spring as in the past couple of years. Juniors Tyler Boyd of Pittsburgh and Mississippi’s Laquon Treadwell, for example, both have top 10 ability, but both have issues which could impact their ultimate draft fate. In particular, Boyd, who doubles as one of the top returners in the country, will not play in the Panthers’ season opener next month after he was charged with DUI back in June. Meanwhile, Treadwell is coming off a gruesome leg injury late last season in which he suffered a broken leg and dislocated an ankle. However, if they get cleared both are very talented receivers. Boyd, in particular, is a big-play threat who put together back-to-back 1,000-yard receiving seasons in his first two years at Pitt. Boyd isn’t the most physical receiver, but he has good speed, along with better quickness while he also has great hands and the ability to get open. For his part, Treadwell is a potential mismatch problem on every snap with his combination of size and athleticism along with elite body control and the ability to track and go up and get the ball.
In fact, underclassmen are going to pretty much determine the strength of the 2016 wide receiver class. In addition to Boyd and Treadwell, fellow junior receivers Michael Thomas of Ohio State, Mike Williams of Clemson and Florida’s Demarcus Robinson each has later first round potential, while there is another small army of junior receivers that should get some second-day consideration if they opt to enter this year’s draft including Rashard Higgins of Colorado State, Travin Dural of LSU, Mississippi State’s De’Runnya Wilson, Pharoah Cooper of South Carolina, Tennessee’s Marquez North, Stacy Coley of Miami, 6-5 Corey Robinson of Notre Dame, Josh Reynolds of Texas A&M, Corey Coleman of Baylor and Cayleb jones of Arizona.
At the same time, Duke Williams of Auburn, arguably the top senior receiving prospect this year, also has mid-to-late first round potential, but he comes with a boatload of character concerns that may scare away more than one team next spring. Josh Doctson of TCU, another big-play type could also conceivably get some late opening round consideration, although he’s had some injury issues in the past. Meanwhile, other senior WRs with top 100 credentials include Leonte Carroo of Rutgers, Colorado’s Nelson Spruce, Devon Cajuste of Stanford and Sterling Shepherd of Oklahoma.
There are also a number of possible wild cards at the position starting with former Ohio State QB Braxton Miller who will be catching passes this fall rather than throwing them. Miller still claims to be a QB and is playing WR this year primarily because his surgically repaired throwing shoulder still isn’t 100%, but most NFL scouts will tell you they are secretly thrilled that Miller will be working at receiver this year because he just doesn’t have an NFL arm. Meanwhile, other veteran wild card receivers worth multiple looks this year include D.J. Foster of Arizona State, who ran for over 1,000 yards as a RB last fall, but like Miller moves to receiver this fall. Same for Oregon speedster Byron Marshall. Meanwhile, anyone looking for a break out star at the position this year may not need to look much farther than TCU’s Kolby Listenbee, an emerging big-play threat with track speed.http://gbnreport.com/wide-receivers/
AgamemnonThe only way Davis made the team was if somebody got hurt. Also, he had a cap hit of 1.5 million. That didn’t help either.
AgamemnonLarry Dagnon @Ldagnon11 1h1 hour ago
@LRiddickESPN Is St.Louis where franchise LTs go to die? Jason Smith, Long, and now Robinson…
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Brent LaBathe @BrentLaBathe 15m15 minutes ago@Ldagnon11 @LRiddickESPN Well, there was Orlando Pace.
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Larry Dagnon @Ldagnon11 15m15 minutes ago@BrentLaBathe @LRiddickESPN Yep. That was many moons ago.
0 retweets 0 favoritesBrandon Bate @NoPlanB_ 1h1 hour ago
@LRiddickESPN Hit us with them dirty deets, Lou
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Esteban Verde @imgoingreene 29m29 minutes ago Florida, USA@LRiddickESPN so two disappointing tackles picked #2 overall by the Rams (Jason Smith too)? #ouch
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Steve V @hoflegend47 47m47 minutes ago@LRiddickESPN about your bio. You’re not a former vet, you are a vet of the NFL. Plus a kick ass commentator
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Ryan @firkster 52m52 minutes ago@lriddickespn he’s a road grading OL that was drafted #2 in a throwing league. It was an awful pick.
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Jeremy Flannery @JFlantastic 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN He came from a foul system built on devil wizardry and deceit, and thus is incapable of the intricacies of the game.
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Vicious Sid @vicious155 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN EVERYONE has to own it DEAD WRONG about his guy
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Paulo Figari @Paulo_FigariNFL 1h1 hour ago Cape Coral, FL@LRiddickESPN Hes struggling with his balance in his kick step, which can cause a downfall with other things. hopefully he corrects it
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Tyler @chonbon15 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN please elaborate
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Alex @IlladelphAC 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN you watch him on tape or something? What happened
0 retweets 0 favoritesThe Dizzle @Nmartin55 1h1 hour ago
@LRiddickESPN Balance is a major issue.
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Tyler @chonbon15 59m59 minutes ago@Nmartin55 @LRiddickESPN I’m interested
0 retweets 0 favoritesLouis Mcdonald @lmcdonald420 10m10 minutes ago
@LRiddickESPN @Edwerderespn not sure but I hope he doesn’t fix it this week with my Hawks coming thru
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Robert Smith @RSmithInc 14m14 minutes ago Kansas City, MO@LRiddickESPN @Edwerderespn Fischer KC. #they suck
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Gabe @MrJetLife20 27m27 minutes ago@LRiddickESPN I said it when he came out.
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Brent Wingert @wheatrich 37m37 minutes ago@LRiddickESPN based on his college tape he’s progressing mostly as I expected at tackle unfortunately.
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Kevin Kelly @BigKev509 43m43 minutes ago@LRiddickESPN don’t draft on physical gifts alone. I feel like it isn’t that hard to figure out
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logan y @LoganFins 45m45 minutes ago Hawaii, USA@LRiddickESPN I don’t think anyone expected this…
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Jeremy @Jeremyk717 58m58 minutes ago@LRiddickESPN thought he was supposed to be a guard?
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Zone Reads @ZoneReads 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN I always thought his footwork was overhyped. My strongest memory of it was watching him lose balance and fall over at Combine.
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Andrew Batson @A_Batson 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN please elaborate…
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Isaac Wastman @IWastman 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN problems with pass pro? had big problems with that coming out of Auburn
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Nick Buser @NickBuser1 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN thoughts on their OL as whole? scary seems right..Saffold solid when healthy and 2/3 rooks..?
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Daniel @Tuczinski 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN why?
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Will Homonnay @WillHomonnay 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN It’s the team he’s on. STL can’t develop offensive talent.
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Raul Rosas @ruleteando 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN Lewan & Mathews habe done better
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Mark Lujan @ML_2011_ 1h1 hour ago@LRiddickESPN ummmmm maybe you should further elaborate
0 retweets 0 favoritesI don't know what is going on with #Rams OT Greg Robinson, but I would be worried about his game/development. Not what I expected.
— Louis Riddick (@LRiddickESPN) September 7, 2015
AgamemnonRams announce 10-man practice squad
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/football/professional/article_da152814-0065-54d9-8314-163ac67b6471.html
9 minutes ago • By Joe LyonsThe Rams’ 10-man practice squad has a familiar look to it.
After making cuts to reach its 53-man roster on Saturday, the team announced Sunday that 10 of those players had been signed to the practice squad.
They are: T Isaiah Battle, RB Malcolm Brown, S Christian Bryant, TE Justice Cunningham, S Jacob Hagen, FB Zach Laskey, DE Matt Longacre, CB Trovon Reed, DT Louis Trinca-Pasat and DT Doug Worthington.
U. CITY’s BASS CLAIMED BY TITANS
A pair of NFL players with ties to the area _ defensive end David Bass and defensive end Kourtnei Brown _ were claimed off waivers Sunday after being cut on Saturday.
Bass, a University City High product who played in college at Missouri Western, was claimed by the Tennessee Titans after being released by the Chicago Bears. The 24-year-old Bass was a seventh-round draft pick by Oakland in 2013 who’d spent the last two seasons in Chicago. The 6-foot-4, 256-pounder played in 20 games, making two starts, and had 33 tackles, four sacks and an interception returned for a touchdown.
Brown, 27, spent time with the Rams in training camp and was on the practice squad for a time last year. He was one of the players featured during HBO’s Hard Knocks with the Houston Texans this year but failed to make the final cut. On Sunday, he was claimed by Tampa Bay.
A Clemson product, the 6-4, 253-pound Brown has been with San Francisco, Washington, Buffalo, Detroit, St. Louis and Houston but has not played in an NFL game.
Linebacker Jason DiManche, an SIUC product, has been moved to injured reserve by Cincinnati. Also shifted to IR were former Missouri Tiger DT Ziggy Hood (Jacksonville) and LB Xaviar Gooden (Tennessee).
In addition, former Rams receiver Greg Salas is on injured reserve with Detroit.
A number of other players with area ties were released on Saturday. They are:
WR Marcus Lucas (Missouri) by Carolina; TE Gannon Sinclair (Missouri State) by Chicago;
RB Ray Agnew III (De Smet/SIUC) by Dallas; WR A.J. Jenkins (Illinois) by Dallas; DT Dominique Hamilton (Missouri) by the New York Giants; WR/KR Walter Powell (Hazelwood East) by the New York Jets; G Joe Asamoah (Illinois) by Atlanta); and G David Arkin (Missouri State) by Indianapolis.
Sunday afternoon, Jim Thomas of the Post-Dispatch learned that Agnew signed with Washington’s practice squad.
Former Rams cut on Saturday were: DE Gerald Rivers by Denver; RB Daryl Richardson by the Jets; WR Devon Wylie by Oakland; DE Matt Conrath by Pittsburgh; and DT Jermelle Cudjo by Detroit.
AgamemnonRams sign S Christian Byrant, DT Doug Worthington, CB Trovon Reed, FB Zach Laskey, and RB Malcolm Brown to practice squad.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 6, 2015
And S Jacob Hagen. So that completes Rams 10-member practice squad along w/previously reported Battle, Trinca-Pasat, Cunningham, & Longacre.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 6, 2015
AgamemnonIsaiah Battle re-signs w/Rams practice squad per @rapsheet.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 6, 2015
Fisher is safe from my wrath. 😉 AgamemnonRams sign DT Louis Trinca-Pasat to practice squad.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 6, 2015
AgamemnonCB Imoan Claiborne, released in the Rams' cut to 75, is joining the Tampa Bay practice squad.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 6, 2015
AgamemnonBTW, how much 2015 cap space do they have after cutting Davis and Dunbar? That’s another couple M, right?
That information is in the initial post under cap totals, 3.297.323. They seem to include all the latest moves and like they said, it is for a 53 man roster.
AgamemnonPlus as they did with Foles, they can park some of the contract in the following year. That is, it’s not just 2016. So Foles’s extension takes 4+ M out of the 2015 cap, but then 8.7+ M out of the 2016 cap (and then 13.2+ M out of 2017). Assuming the cap in 2017 is 155 M, right now they have 68+ M in 2017 cap space to help sign their own free agents. Of course that number will go down when they sign both 2016 and 2017 draft picks.
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Everything was figured in.
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A quick look at 2016. A quick easy way to figure 2016, is to take the 34 million cap space and figure how many of our 12 FAs we can sign. Don’t worry about number of contracts, rookie draft picks, RFAs, cuts, restructures, or that the cap will probably be 155 million, it all can boil down to 12 FAs and ~34 million. Which is close enough for now.
I am just showing that the Rams are in good shape with the salary cap in 2016
Quick, Brian
Barnes, Tim
HAYES, WILLIAM
Sims, Eugene
Fairley, Nick
Mark Barron
McLeod, Rodney
Johnson, Trumaine
Jenkins, Janoris
Zuerlein, Greg
Givens, Chris
Pead, Isaiah AgamemnonAnd a friendly reminder that these are initial 53-man rosters. By no means final. Can always be adjustments. Rams 10th on waiver wire.
— Nick Wagoner (@nwagoner) September 6, 2015
AgamemnonYeah, I am not sure either. I would have kept Battle. Let’s see who gets on the practice squad.
Fisher said other moves were afoot. Maybe they trade one of the receivers.
True. But if they lose Battle, I am calling that a mistake. Just like I call giving up a 2cd round draft pick to move up for Austin a mistake. That will be only the second thing I will knock them for. That isn’t bad.
AgamemnonNo major shocks on #Rams roster but WR Bradley Marquez/OT Darrell Williams over DT Louis Trinca-Pasat/OT Isaiah Battle count as surprises.
— Nick Wagoner (@nwagoner) September 6, 2015
AgamemnonThat sucks for Trinca-Pasat but there’s just no room. Not sure why they kept 6 wide receivers. They must really like all of them.
Yeah, I am not sure either. I would have kept Battle. Let’s see who gets on the practice squad.
AgamemnonRams roster breakdown: 3 QBs, 5 RBs, 3 TEs, 6 WRs, 10 OLs, 8 DLs, 6 LBs, 9 DBs, 3 specialists.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
AgamemnonHere are Rams OFFICIAL final roster cuts: Isaiah Battle, Christian Bryant, Justice Cunningham,, Austin Davis, Marcus Forston. . .
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
. . .Marshall McFadden, Louis Trinica-Pasat, Dan Rodrigue, and Marcus Forston.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
The others we had reported previously: Blake, Brown, Laskey, Bayer, Garner, Reed, Hagen, Washington, Longacre, Ifedi, Jones, Dunbar.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
Forgot to mention CB Brandon McGee as another newly confirmed roster cut.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
AgamemnonBeen told that rookie QB Sean Mannion has made the Rams' 53-man roster. So unless the Rams are keeping 4 QBs, Austin Davis has been cut.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
AgamemnonPer his Twitter, appears that LB Cameron Lynch has made #Rams roster. Mentioned the possibility this morning, team likes his toughness.
— Nick Wagoner (@nwagoner) September 5, 2015
AgamemnonCan confirm Dunbar release. There's a chance Rams will-re-sign him after Week 1, at which point his contract won't be guaranteed.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
AgamemnonIn another surprise, @rapsheet says Rams have cut Jo-Lonn Dunbar, a good run defender and a starter last year.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
AgamemnonHave been told that OLs Andrew Donnal and Darrell Williams have both made the Rams' 53-man roster.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
So either, the Rams are keeping 11 offensive linemen or Isaiah Battle did not make the 53-man.
— Jim Thomas (@jthom1) September 5, 2015
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