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Jake is a wonderful Rams fan, his knowledge of players names and stats is astonishing.

But he’s not an insider, and he’s not anything close to a scout or talent evaluator.

I met the kid back in 2017 at the Rams game in NY. He was telling me how the Rams made a big mistake drafting Goff over his first choice, Wentz.

His takes are no better than any fans, about 50%.

He’s got a ton of bravado. I’ll give him that.

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RustyRay
When he gets chances he makes plays.

He has great speed and good hands and runs good routes.

He gets open deep and when the Rams throw it to him its a big play or a PI call.

I just wish he got more targets.

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BumRap
... McVay will brag about a player in the off season and before a game on for that player to not see the field or rarely call
Their number.

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Shecky
McVay says this is a numbers game. I call BS. When Tutu was a WR3/4 earlier this year, he wasn't playing special teams. What gives?

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BumRap
Blackwell has not proven to be the most brilliant ST coach iin the league.

Tutu has speed and can catch better than average hands. McVay simply does not focus to get him the ball any more than he focuses to make Ferguson an impact TE. AZ and a half dozen lesser teams have great young impact TE and of Ferguson is only given the opportunities they gave Higbee he could be a star. So I say this McVay as the controller in his hand and we are going to be limited to that so hope he masters the plays he is calling like the roster he is building.

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AlbaNY_Ram
An NFL team can only recall 8 players from IR and last year the Rams already had recalled 7 guys when Reeder was eligible to come off IR.

John Johnson was also eligible to come off IR the same time Reeder was. But the Rams held off on activating either of them, waiting to see if the injury bug hit ILB or DB before they used their final recall.

This year the Rams have only activated 1 guy from IR so they aren't bumping up against that 8 player limit that kept Reeder on IR.

This article addresses Atwell's situation in some detail [theramswire.usatoday.com], but basically the Rams are pretty deep at WR on the 53 man roster with 5 guys there already and the Rams would have to cut someone to add Atwell. Apparently they don't feel the need to do that right now.

From that article, these are some of the mitigating factors:

Xavier Smith had three catches for 82 yards in Sunday’s game alone, while Jordan Whittington offers much more as a blocker and return specialist. Konata Mumpfield, the Rams’ fifth receiver, plays special teams, as well.

Atwell, on the other hand, does not. And his lack of a role on special teams is clearly impacting his chances of getting on the field as one of the Rams’ 48 active players.

Atwell might not be activated again this year, but comparing his situation to Reeder's is apples and oranges.