Two of the Rams key players are not participating in Thursday’s practice.
Via Sarah Barshop of ESPN, both receiver Puka Nacua and edge rusher Myles Garrett are working out off to the side with Los Angeles’ training staff during the session.
While Garrett is dealing with a knee issue, Nacua’s injury has not yet been disclosed. Nacua exited the joint practice with the Cowboys early this week.
But the fact that both players are doing something during practice is an indication that neither is dealing with something too serious.
We’ll see if head coach Sean McVay delivers an update on either or both players after practice concludes.
Playing football presents a constant risk of injury. The rest of real life does, too.
Appearing on the Impaulsive podcast, Rams receiver Puka Nacua said he collided with a glass window pane at Michael Rubin’s white party earlier this summer.
“Uh, the glass window pane won,” Nacua said, via Oliver G. of USA Today.
Nacua wasn’t the only one who had an encounter with the obstruction at the annual (in most years) event hosted by the Fanatics founder.
“They made me feel better when they said three other people ran into it,” Nacua said. “But nobody else ended up bleeding from it. So I don’t know if that made me feel much better or worse.”
The injury dovetails with a recent remark made by Aaron Rodgers regarding “weird-ass parties” where everyone wears white, which Rodgers says he won’t be attending when he retires.
In Nacua’s case, the white ended up having distinct hints of red.
The Rams have added a linebacker.
Los Angeles announced on Thursday that the club has signed veteran Monty Rice.
Rice, 27, was a Titans third-round pick in 2021 out of Georgia. He’s appeared in 39 career games with 11 starts for Tennessee, New England, and Detroit. In the last three seasons, most of his playing time has come on special teams.
Rice appeared in one game for the Lions in 2025.
He also spent time in 2026 with the UFL’s Louisville Kings.
The NFL’s secret, rigged, kangaroo court of arbitration continues to crumble.
On Wednesday, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles found that an arbitration clause used by the Rams is unconscionable and, in turn, unenforceable.
The dispute arose from a lawsuit filed by Brittany Todd against the Rams. She claims that her March 10, 2026 termination happened after she complained that her immediate supervisors were consuming alcohol during work hours “to the point of extreme intoxication,” that they coerced subordinate employees to consume alcohol, that they berated employees “to an abusive level” after becoming intoxicated, and that they berated employees for their religious views.
The Rams filed a motion to compel arbitration. The court rejected the motion.
The arbitration agreement used by the Rams gives the NFL Commissioner, or his designee, the exclusive power to resolve the case, including the threshold question of whether the dispute is “football-related.”
The court found that reliance on an arbitrator who is employed by the NFL, which represents the 32 member teams, makes the agreement unconscionable.
It’s the third ruling in recent months invalidating the NFL’s arbitration provisions. Unlike the Jon Gruden and Brian Flores cases, however, the Todd case did not involve the NFL as a party to the litigation.
Todd’s lawyer, Mike Caspino, applauded the decision.
“We are happy that our client will be able to have her day in court,” Caspino said in a statement provided to PFT. “We are also happy that all of the employees of the 49ers, Chargers and Rams will no longer be subjected to the NFL’s biased arbitration system.”
The tide seems to be turning sharply against the NFL’s effort to serve as judge and jury in cases filed against the league and its teams. And to that we say, “It’s about damn time.”
It was never fair for the league to handle the lawsuits filed against the NFL and its teams. And the league should have never tried to even do it. After years of pulling it off, the courts are finally tearing it down.
All signs point to Aaron Donald’s return this season, though the defensive tackle has not officially announced his decision.
Donald had another workout at the Rams’ team facility on Monday, Nate Atkins of TheAthletic.com reports.
Defensive linemen Braden Fiske and Desjuan Johnson worked out alongside Donald. Johnson played with Donald in 2023, Donald’s final season before he retired.
Donald, 35, worked on speed and footwork with cones and ladders in a video posted by 2Tenths Speed & Agility.
“It didn’t feel like he missed a beat at all,” Johnson said, via Atkins. “It feels like he even got a little bit faster, a little bit hungrier in a way.”
The three-time Defensive Player of the Year began considering a comeback after the Rams traded for two-time Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett.
