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The injury woes continue for wide receiver Danny Amendola. He watched practice Wednesday in a walking boot as the result of a heel/foot injury he suffered in the first half Sunday against the New York Jets. Amendola returned for the second half, but was limping noticeably in the locker room after the game.
“We’ll see how he is (Thursday),” coach Jeff Fisher said.
Also sitting out practice were running back Steven Jackson (foot), tight end Lance Kendricks (knee), and linebacker Mario Haggan (elbow).
“We rested ‘Jack’ — same thing with Kendricks,” Fisher said.
Jackson tweaked the foot late in the Jets’ game. Kendricks bumped his knee late in the contest, but said after the game that he was fine.
Haggan, however, could be sidelined for several weeks after suffering a dislocated elbow when Jets offensive guard Matt Slauson speared Haggan while he was on the ground. Although unhappy with Slauson’s action, Fisher said Monday that he wasn’t sure if the injury occurred before or after Slauson made contact.
But Haggan subsequently said the injury occurred when Slauson leaped on him. There was no penalty called on the play, and the Rams planned to file a complaint with the league.
Haggan was making his first start of the season at strongside linebacker, before the injury occurred on the third play of the game.
A REAL CHECK
After Wednesday’s practice, the Rams presented a check for nearly $43,000 to several Lindenwood University officials and coaches for the Sterling Thomas Fund. Thomas, 18, of Broken Arrow, Okla., suffered a spinal cord injury during a Lindenwood football game Oct. 27 and currently is undergoing treatment at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta.
When they learned of the injury, Rams coaches and players raised nearly $38,000 to help with medical costs. Owner Stan Kroenke then matched the team’s largest individual donation to bring the total to just under $43,000.
A BOGUS CHECK
On a lighter note, the Rams presented a bogus check of $2,500 to their popular physical therapist/assistant athletic trainer, Byron Cunningham, in a locker room “ceremony” Wednesday with Chris Long serving as ringleader.
The back story: Cunningham got especially excited on the sidelines during Steven Jackson’s “helmet-less” run against San Francisco on Nov. 11. The players sent him a fake letter a couple of days ago, purportedly from the NFL office, telling him he was being fined $2,500 for excessive celebration including “sexually suggestive” movements. At least one coach got in on the act, lecturing Cunningham.
Cunningham was apoplectic, staying up past midnight Tuesday writing a letter to the NFL office in response to the fine. After practice Wednesday, as players and several coaches gathered in the locker room, Long told Cunningham that the team had taken up a collection to pay the fine. Cunningham was near tears as Long spoke...and then the team told him “Happy Pranksgiving!”
The fine was a hoax.
MILLER’S RELEASE
Fisher said releasing fullback Brit Miller on Tuesday was “really difficult.”
“We needed a roster spot for Scott (Wells), and we weren’t using the personnel grouping very much with the fullback and we brought Cory (Harkey) up,” Fisher said. “So for the time being this was really the only direction we could go. It’s difficult because Brit really is part of the fabric of this football team. He was voted captain and such, but sometimes that’s where the business side kicks in and it’s unfortunate. We appreciate everything he’s done.”
WILLIAMS RETURNS
Linebacker Jabara Williams, a seventh-round pick by the Rams in 2011, was signed to the practice squad Wednesday filling the vacancy created when tight end Harkey was promoted to the active roster. Williams was on the Rams’ roster for six games last season, appearing in two games, before being waived Oct. 26.
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The injury woes continue for wide receiver Danny Amendola. He watched practice Wednesday in a walking boot as the result of a heel/foot injury he suffered in the first half Sunday against the New York Jets. Amendola returned for the second half, but was limping noticeably in the locker room after the game.
“We’ll see how he is (Thursday),” coach Jeff Fisher said.
Also sitting out practice were running back Steven Jackson (foot), tight end Lance Kendricks (knee), and linebacker Mario Haggan (elbow).
“We rested ‘Jack’ — same thing with Kendricks,” Fisher said.
Jackson tweaked the foot late in the Jets’ game. Kendricks bumped his knee late in the contest, but said after the game that he was fine.
Haggan, however, could be sidelined for several weeks after suffering a dislocated elbow when Jets offensive guard Matt Slauson speared Haggan while he was on the ground. Although unhappy with Slauson’s action, Fisher said Monday that he wasn’t sure if the injury occurred before or after Slauson made contact.
But Haggan subsequently said the injury occurred when Slauson leaped on him. There was no penalty called on the play, and the Rams planned to file a complaint with the league.
Haggan was making his first start of the season at strongside linebacker, before the injury occurred on the third play of the game.
A REAL CHECK
After Wednesday’s practice, the Rams presented a check for nearly $43,000 to several Lindenwood University officials and coaches for the Sterling Thomas Fund. Thomas, 18, of Broken Arrow, Okla., suffered a spinal cord injury during a Lindenwood football game Oct. 27 and currently is undergoing treatment at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta.
When they learned of the injury, Rams coaches and players raised nearly $38,000 to help with medical costs. Owner Stan Kroenke then matched the team’s largest individual donation to bring the total to just under $43,000.
A BOGUS CHECK
On a lighter note, the Rams presented a bogus check of $2,500 to their popular physical therapist/assistant athletic trainer, Byron Cunningham, in a locker room “ceremony” Wednesday with Chris Long serving as ringleader.
The back story: Cunningham got especially excited on the sidelines during Steven Jackson’s “helmet-less” run against San Francisco on Nov. 11. The players sent him a fake letter a couple of days ago, purportedly from the NFL office, telling him he was being fined $2,500 for excessive celebration including “sexually suggestive” movements. At least one coach got in on the act, lecturing Cunningham.
Cunningham was apoplectic, staying up past midnight Tuesday writing a letter to the NFL office in response to the fine. After practice Wednesday, as players and several coaches gathered in the locker room, Long told Cunningham that the team had taken up a collection to pay the fine. Cunningham was near tears as Long spoke...and then the team told him “Happy Pranksgiving!”
The fine was a hoax.
MILLER’S RELEASE
Fisher said releasing fullback Brit Miller on Tuesday was “really difficult.”
“We needed a roster spot for Scott (Wells), and we weren’t using the personnel grouping very much with the fullback and we brought Cory (Harkey) up,” Fisher said. “So for the time being this was really the only direction we could go. It’s difficult because Brit really is part of the fabric of this football team. He was voted captain and such, but sometimes that’s where the business side kicks in and it’s unfortunate. We appreciate everything he’s done.”
WILLIAMS RETURNS
Linebacker Jabara Williams, a seventh-round pick by the Rams in 2011, was signed to the practice squad Wednesday filling the vacancy created when tight end Harkey was promoted to the active roster. Williams was on the Rams’ roster for six games last season, appearing in two games, before being waived Oct. 26.
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