from https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2025/3/10/24382512/rams-free-agency-jimmy-garoppolo-news

Coleman Shelton, C
Terms not yet disclosed
Shelton spent last season with the Chicago Bears, who have spent the early going of the offseason reinventing the interior of their offensive line. Chicago also landed the top center on the free agent market in Drew Dalman most recently of the Atlanta Falcons. Shelton has experience and chemistry with Stafford. Is he coming in to compete with second-year center Beaux Limmer, or simply offering depth and mentorship?

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Toné! Pastoors@Carl_noWinslow
Coleman Shelton back = solid iOL depth

I think getting a short, stout veteran NT who is known for playing the run…is just what the doctor ordered.

Rams know who he is. They played against him when he was in Seattle from 2018-2022.

I can’t wait to see what they do with the draft. So far this is a very good off-season.

from https://nflrankings.theringer.com/free-agency

Davante Adams
Wide receiver, Jets
March 9: Adams signs with Rams

Because he was released by the Jets, Adams didn’t have to wait for the formal start of free agency to find a new team. And now, he’s headed to Los Angeles on a two-year, $46 million deal with $26 million guaranteed, according to NFL Network. If Adams had signed this deal with another team, I’d be harping on the risks of signing a 32-year-old wide receiver to a contract this big. But you know what? I totally get it for the Rams! They are as “win now” as any team in the NFL, given that Matthew Stafford is 37 years old. In Adams, the Rams get a reliable veteran who will be a nice complement to Puka Nacua. If the Rams’ pass protection can hold up, this offense has a chance to be exciting. Could both Stafford and Adams show serious signs of decline, resulting in the Rams taking a step back in 2025? Of course. That’s the risk. But the Rams chose a direction and are going for it. I respect that.

Grade: B

The best of the veteran wide receiver options.
We have ourselves a classic “two things can be true” situation here:

1. Adams is not the player he once was.

2. Adams can still help a team if the fit is right.

He finished last year with 85 catches for 1,063 yards. That was in three games with the Raiders and 11 games with the Jets. Adams’s yards per reception average (12.5) was pretty much right alongside his career average (12.4). Let’s pair him with a good quarterback on a contending team and see what he has left. ,

Chase Daniel@ChaseDaniel
Davante Adams, Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams & Matthew Stafford are a top 3/4 skill group in NFL.

Rams are looking scary good.

Howard Balzer@HBalzer721
Davante Adams deal value is $44M, not $46M, but has $1M incentives each year. $26M gtd includes $12M signing bonus. Cap charge is $14M this year and jumps to $30M in 2026: $18M base, $6M SB proration, $6M roster bonus. If they move on before paying RB, dead money is $6M.

RamsMaineiac wrote:

Okay maybe I don’t know enough about this hah. From CBS Sports:

It wouldn’t be surprising if the Rams end up releasing Kupp given the supply of older wide receivers and Kupp’s injury history and production over the last three seasons. The Rams will initially have $22.26 million in 2025 dead money where $7.52 million of 2025 cap room is created by releasing Kupp before the last $2.5 million of his $7.5 million roster bonus becomes a payment obligation on March 16.

Kupp would surely get a contract from another team for more than $5 million. The offset with the roster bonus guarantee means the Rams would get the first $5 million from Kupp’s next contract. The end result would be $17.26 million in dead money where the Rams gain a total for $12.52 million of cap space relating to Kupp’s release.

I don’t know enough about this, but I think that if they release him with a post-June 1 designation, he has to remain on the Ram books until May 31, in which case the roster bonus they’re trying to avoid would actually count against their cap. I think.

AJ Schulte@AJSchulteFB
Davante Adams was 14th in ESPN’s separation score last season despite his age.

Still an elite separator and will bring the juice the Rams have missed since OBJ in their Super Bowl run.

“I think the Rams will be a really good spot for him.”

The great @GregCosell was all over Davante Adams signing with the Rams on Wednesday’s show: pic.twitter.com/Tmc2Lytydt

— Ross Tucker Podcast (@RossTuckerPod) March 9, 2025

RAMS REPORT@RamsNFLReport
Below are both Cooper Kupp & Davante Adams’ stats.

Adams has been much more productive and reliable throughout his career, notably the past 3 seasons (22-24).

Kupp: 33 gp, 201 rec, 2,259 yds, 17 tds
Adams: 48 gp, 288 rec, 3,723 yds, 30 tds

I love Kupp, but this is an upgrade.

Wyatt Miller@wymill07
Davante Adams has always been an elite route runner and man coverage beater.

Adams was one of 16 qualified WRs with over 2.5 yards per route run against man coverage last season, despite being in 2 separate offenses.

Matt Bowen@MattBowen41
Davante Adams to the Rams…Adams can beat press/separate on the isolation throws in the LA offense. And McVay will scheme for Adams on PA/movement. Free access off the ball + zone voids to attack.

Vincent Bonsignore@VinnyBonsignore
Scary addition for the rest of the NFC

Eternal Ramnation wrote:

https://www.therams.com/news/rams-wr-davante-adams-agree-to-terms-on-2-year-deal
Trying to post this story on my phone not getting far

Got yer back.

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Rams, WR Davante Adams agree to terms on 2-year deal

https://www.therams.com/news/rams-wr-davante-adams-agree-to-terms-on-2-year-deal

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. – The Rams have agreed to terms with wide receiver Davante Adams on a two-year deal.

Adams, 32, is coming off his fifth-consecutive 1,000 yard season, accomplishing the feat across three games with the Raiders (18 receptions for 209 yards) and 11 with the Jets (67 for 854) after being traded from Las Vegas to New York during the 2024 season. He also caught eight touchdowns in addition to those 85 receptions for 1,063 yards.

A three-time First-Team All-Pro and six-time Pro Bowl selection, Adams has amassed 957 receptions for 11,844 yards and 103 touchdowns in 11 NFL seasons, with 157 starts in 164 career games played in the regular season.

He originally entered the league as a second-round pick (No. 53 overall) by the Green Bay Packers in the 2014 NFL Draft.

Zooey wrote:

I love the DL, but seems like they could use a couple of earth-mover types

Well as it happens, this draft is exceptionally good for interior DL.

Got this from Pro Football Journal, The NFL’s Top Post-WWII Guards: https://nflfootballjournal.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-nfls-top-post-wwii-guards.html

It’s a ranking. I pull all their Rams guards from their top 50 list

18. Tom Mack
Thirteen Pro Bowls. Mack was a dominant player versus the run and the pass early in his career. In his last few years, he got by on savvy and experience as his strength and speed seemed to decline. His first eight or so seasons were like Zach Martin is now, but his last several were just not as dominant. Bob Lilly named Jim Parker the toughest lineman he faced but Mack was second on his list. Larry Little said, “Mack could do it all”.

Mack was voted to 11 Pro Bowls in 13 seasons and was a First-team All-Pro five times and a Second-team All-Pro three times. When you add in his All-Conference selections to all that, Mack got post-season honors in 12 of his 13 seasons. PFJ named him to the 1965-1975 All-Mid-Decade Team as well. He played in 184 games, never missing one.

34. Duane Putnam
Like Stan Jones, he was one of the first weightlifters. But he was also able to run very well and was the best pulling guard of the 1950s in our view.

Putnam played eleven seasons, mostly with the Rams. He went to five Pro Bowls, was First-team All-Pro five times (three consensus) and was also a Second-team All-Pro one additional season. He was also a 1955-65 All-Mid Decade selection by PFJ.

38. Tom Newberry
Strong, quicker, great trap blocker would flatten people. Started off his career like a possible Hall of Famer but after a few years seemed to lose some size and strength and was no longer dominant, just adequate. “Newberry is fast and strong and loves to pancake defenders”, wrote Buchsbaum when Newberry was at his peak. He also said a couple of years later, “He’s the NFL’s fastest guard, even after knee troubles, but he’s not playing as well as he can.”

He was “compact, quick and exploded off the ball, getting movement and collapsing on people. With good body control, he’s good at locating defenders on the move. He had long arms that helped compensate lack of height, sometimes a little over-aggressive and could be beaten on stunts.” said one NFL scout, also in the late-1980s.

43. Dennis Harrah
A taller guard with great upper-body strength. In his early years could pull with the best of them. Later became a more efficient pass blocker but did get called for holding a lot. “A very, very strong one-on-one blocker. A good pass blocker who has good pulling speed bus is not overly nimble”, said Buchsbaum.

44. Kent Hill
Hill was 6-5, 260, and would run a 4.8 and had the build of Adonis. Super-long arms helped him in pass protection and was perhaps the best pulling guard/long trapper of his era. The 47 Gap play, Eric Dickerson’s favorite, relied on guards who could move and Harrah and Hill you’d do that making the 48 Gap as successful as the 47 Gap.

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

So do the Rams have cap room this year? Seems like they havent had much cap space since the Super Bowl year.

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It’s kind of unclear until we see what the Jackson, Atwell, and Stafford contracts–along with the J.Jackson trade–all do to the numbers.

On paper, right now, before those contracts are factored in, they have around 54 M in cap space.

This is before they factor in the moves I list in the quotation.

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NFL Stats@NFL_Stats
Cap space available for each team, per Spotrac:

NE – $125.8M
WAS – $93.8M
LAC – $93.8M
ARI – $77.8M
PIT – $63.9M
MIN – $63.8M
TEN – $63.2M
SEA – $62.6M
JAX – $60.2M
LAR – $55.1M

Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
49ers claimed CB Tre Tomlinson off waivers from the Los Angeles Rams.

Jourdan Rodrigue@JourdanRodrigue
I am so very proud of my twin sister Mattie, an ocean scientist and the science program director at OceanX, secondly for the crucial work she does for our planet and expanding STEM opportunities for global communities – and firstly because she got to hang out with Keanu Reeves: