Good points AlbaNY

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AlbaNY_Ram
They can do better than a comp pick next year.

This is indeed Akers' contract year, but because he pretty much missed so much of the 2021 season that year doesn't count as an accredited season. So even though he'll have 4 years with the team after this season he will only have 3 accredited seasons. Which makes him a RFA.

The Rams can, if they want to, place an Original Round / Right of First Refusal tender on him, which should be around $2.7M. If no one bites then they get one more year of Akers on the cheap. But if someone makes him an offer the Rams can - and probably will - let him go and get a 2nd round pick in return.

My question would be will Akers be "OK" with a tender put on him or will he be disgruntled and quit on us again? Based on his history, I think I know the answer. I just don't trust him.

I do think the coach that was fired was part of the problem for him but I am pretty sure Akers will want to be paid if he plays well this year. Will there be a "suitor" for him? Based on last year's interest...maybe not.

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“Well, the color is good, I like the metallic blue,” Youngblood recently said while laughing, via NFL Journal. “The horn is terrible. It looks like a ‘C.’ When I first saw it on the logo I honestly thought it was a Charger logo.

“Now when I see it on the helmet, it just isn’t a ram horn. There is no distinct curl like a mature ram horn. I don’t know how the Rams could get that wrong. That is your symbol and it has been for what? Seventy years or more? Longer than I have been alive? It’s just not us, it’s not the Rams.”---Mr. Ram Jack Youngblood