Greg Gaines has surreal start to Rams career after wild NFL draft

Greg Gaines has surreal start to Rams career after wild NFL draft

THOUSAND OAKS – The last two months had been so dizzying and surreal that as Greg Gaines wandered the Rams facility for the first time this week, he couldn’t believe that he was actually here, back in Southern California, just a few freeways away from where he played high school football in La Habra.

It had all happened so fast. Just seven weeks earlier, in the thick of his training for the NFL draft, Gaines and his wife, Sheyanne, had their first child, a baby boy named Colt. A month after his son was born, Gaines’ phone rang in the middle of the fourth round. The Rams general manager was on the line.

“You ever dream about playing in the NFL?” Rams general manager Les Snead asked him.

“Oh yeah,” Gaines responded, and two weeks later, after a 23-hour drive with a newborn from Dallas to Los Angeles and a week spent crashing with his grandmother, here he was, sitting in the same meeting room as Aaron Donald, the two-time defending Defensive Player of the Year. His head was still spinning on Tuesday, when rookies met with media for the first time.

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