Rams All-in on Arch Manning! Rams Training Camp Buzz! Rams FINALLY Have Explosive RB & More!

Rams All-in on Arch Manning! Rams Training Camp Buzz! Rams FINALLY Have Explosive RB & More!

This could be absolutely massive for the Rams future. That’s coming up next on Locked on Rams. [Music] You are Locked on Rams, your daily Los Angeles Rams podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. What is up, Ramy? Welcome to another episode of Locked On Rams, your daily podcast covering your Los Angeles Rams. Free and available every year podcast. Locked on Rams, part of Locked On podcast network, your team every day. We’re also available over on YouTube. So, if you haven’t yet, do us a huge favor. Join the party. Just passed 18,000 subscribers. So, join the party. Hit the subscribe button. Hit the notification bell. And if you’re currently a subscriber, you want to support the show every day. Hit the like button, drop a comment. Podcast listeners, write us, review, or read on the show. My name is Doug McCain. You can follow me on X and Instagram at DMAC_LA. I’ve covered LA sports for over a decade. 247 sports Bleacher Report. And as always, I’m joined by the people’s champ, Mr. Travis Rogers, entering his, am I correct? 11th season. 10. 10. So, we’re now pushing the 10. This is That’s a big moment. Really double digits, baby. We’re in double digits, right? I mean, time flies when you are covering the Rams. Andrea’s 10th season as the preaf and postgame show host for Los Angeles Rams on ESPN LA710, the People’s Champ. You can follow him at Travis Rogers. On today’s episode, we are diving into day two of Rams training camp. What we’re seeing, what we are hearing, everything that’s going on. Also, the Rams continue to be linked to Arch Manning. Some quick thoughts on that that we will get into. But first, today’s episode of Locked On Rams is brought to you by Game Time. Download the Game Time app today. Create account and use code locked on NFL for $20 off your first purchase. All right, Travis, before we get into it, did you see Have you seen Kevin Dodson’s hair at Camp? I mean, that’s a Okay, let’s just make the bet right now. Like I mean we don’t have Kevin Dodson’s hair, but if they win the Super Bowl the very next episode we’re getting the Rams horns paint on our hair, right? I mean that’s that’s that’s fine. We’re rolling with that. Done. I I I sign up that with great enthusiasm. If that’s the price of a Super Bowl championship, I’m I am in. And by the way, anything Kevin Dodson does immediately becomes cool. So I uh he’s he’s the trends setter. We can be right behind him. You seem like you’re pretty down with it. Maybe you’d be down to do it if they just beat the Cowboys in the preseason August 9th. Maybe. No. Okay. Just a roll. We’ll see. I’ll tell you what. If Matthew Stafford throws five touchdowns in that game, I’ll do it. Okay. Well, that certainly’s not going to have his backs a little sore like everyone’s when they hit your 30s, right? But we’re going to dive into the kind of the stuff that we’ve seen so far. And then one of the big, I think, intriguing things for me as far as what can really take this offense to a whole another level in 2025 is giving Kairen Williams another running back in that back field that can do some stuff. And we’ve seen this running back’s room evolve, right? Gap duo and what Kairen does with the physicality, but bringing in someone like a Jarquz Hunter who brings that explosive element and a Blake Corum who we know is kind of more of a a backup to Kairen that can do some Ka Williamsish things, but they’ve really stood out in the first couple days, day two, and I really think that’s really intriguing. Jaros Hunter is someone that I mean if if I’m going to recommend any of you guys to go watch one of the new Rams highlight tapes from from college who certainly won and what I look at is the Rams explosive run rate. It was at 1.8% last year that was 32 in the NFL. That’s just not what they do. So to bring some lightning to that thunder, bring some explosiveness out of the backfield. That’s something I’m hoping to see. And it’s it looked good so far from the running backs. Yeah, it it’s it’s not unlike what they went out and did with Devonte Adams. And obviously Devonte Adams is a is a known commodity and and Hunter is not. He’s a he’s a young player, but it’s the same sort of general idea of, hey, let’s get a a not only another weapon, but a different type of weapon. I think you’re going to see Matthew Stafford and Shawn McVey be able to do some things that they weren’t able to do with Puka and Cup that they are going to be able to do with Puka and and Devonte Adams. And same thing in the backfield. They have multiple thunders, right? they they don’t have that that lightning that you do need that other element. And one of the things that’s really been lacking from the Rams offense and not just last year, but really since Todd Gurley has been here is explosive plays out of the backfield. They just they just don’t have them. They’ve had guys that have been effective. They’ve had guys that have been, you know, useful to be sure. Kyron Williams is a very useful player. He scores a lot of touchdowns. He, you know, a thousand yard season a couple years in a row. He he but it’s not like he scares the the daylights out of you the way a Saquon might or the way that Christian McAffrey might. That there aren’t a bunch of those sorts of plays in that Rams backfield. So that they’re looking for it. Great. And I think even if you double thunder it for lack of a better explanation, Kairen Williams like there there’s two knocks on him, right? Number one is is that he fumbles and that you know that’ll either get fixed or it won’t. And number two is is that he doesn’t play a full season. And and getting him a few fewer reps, I think, will help him get more reps, if that makes sense. That if you can get him off of the off of the the his feet for a series quarter or, you know, maybe even just a series a half, might allow him to stay a little healthier over the course of the season. So, I’m I’m excited from what I’m seeing in the backfield for sure. Yeah, absolutely. And you look at Hunter and what he did in the SEC. we talk about a lot on this show, players coming from big conferences, bigger programs, and how that translates early on in your NFL career. And he led the SEC with 6.4 yards per rush. And he had an 18.9% explosive run rate. That was second in all the FBS behind UCF’s RJ Harvey. Shout out to him. But that’s definitely something I think that was a point of emphasis for this Rams team because we know they basically draft a running back every single year. But the difference between Hunter and Korm was I think Korm was almost like a little bit of a panic move because they were kind of worried about Ken Williams injury history. So they wanted to bring in a guy that could plug in in the event that you lose him for an extended period of time. This year they kind of said we got Cororum. He showed some flashes and we want something to complement Kairen. That’s why I think this makes this so interesting. And I think if you’re Kiran, it looks like he’s on his way to an extension. It’s still his backfield, but I think through the course of that extension to give him someone where he doesn’t have to do all the work and have all the carries, it’s going to keep him fresh and healthy for the regular season and in the postseason. Yeah. I I like we said that this the Corum thing was a hey, if this Kyron Williams thing doesn’t work out, do we have something that fits in that slot that you just, you know, think of that toy you had when you were a baby. There’s a star shape, there’s a moon shape, there’s a square, there’s a circle. Like, they needed another star shape to just slide right into that hole. Well, now they got two star shapes and now they’re looking for something else that you can put in in one of those different slots. And I think that’s what what Hunter is. And, you know, I I I’m with you. I think that it it does feel like Williams will will be here uh that they will do that extension. Um hopefully it is on terms that make sense for the Rams more so than it makes sense for uh the player necessarily. But uh yeah, I I just you know having different tools in your toolbox allows you to do more things and and think about what Shawn McVey has been able to do with a relatively I don’t want to say limited because it’s not limited but a a the you have some redundancies. Cup and nua were really similar. Cororum and Williams were really similar. Now all of a sudden you got two different types of wide receiver. You got two different types of running back. It’s just it’s more colors to paint with and uh I I I trust him to paint a pretty good picture. Absolutely. By the way, he’s from Michigan. There was a debate in the comment section about the best college fight song. Is it Hail to the Victors? Hail to the Victors. Is it USC’s fight on not for me? It’s still Notre Dame. I mean, I’m not in Notre Dame. I’m not a dmer. Uh it’s Notre Dame. Yeah. Yeah, it’s Notre Dame. Hail to the Victors is certainly in the mix. Um, Conquest for SC. Sorry, buddy. That’s uh that’s got to be in there as well. U Yeah, it’s uh No, it it’s it’s it’s wake up the Echoes at Notre Dame for sure. Are you a Rudy guy? I have the corniestation ever. I watched Rudy the day before the college football season and it’s you know shake down the thunder from the I love I love the way every time somebody asked Joe Montana about Rudy this is why this is where I land and he’s like I don’t even know who the guy is like it’s it’s terrific that that Rudy it’s a nice piece of fiction the reality of Rudy is it’s a good movie I like the guys that made the movie I like watching the movie but it’s fiction because the reality of Rudy Rutiger is not my my cup of tea. You don’t like it when John Favro is like, “Who’s the wild man now?” He runs out of the field. That was when Favro was, you know, fat Favro. Now he’s Now he’s famous Iron Man director Favro. He’s a He’s a different dude. That was early Favro. It’s a fair point. That’s a fair point. All right, coming up next, everything Deshawn Foster had to say at the Big 10 media day about UCLA. No, but seriously, more takeaways from Rams training camp and Stson Bennett standing out. 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And that does not guarantee you a spot on the 53A man roster, especially when you’re the third string quarterback. But if he continues to have good positive starts, we’ll see how he shows in the preseason. He’s at least making progress in his career with the Rams. Yeah. You know, honestly, DMAC, I think that he’s the fact that he’s still here is a bit of an upset, right? It it it felt like that it was not headed in that direction that I I not to bring up negative stuff, but I I I I’ll bring it up again because I literally have never ever seen it before. And it involves Stson Bennett. He got benched during a preseason game. They like they yanked him off the field in the middle of a preseason game and then we all know what happened after that. He missed some time. He went away. He dealt with some personal issues that seems like he’s gotten a pretty good handle on. So, that’s all really good news that he’s here. If he can find a way to, you know, be that backup quarterback or backup to the backup, I should say, and find a way to forge a path in the NFL, good for him because I I I really did not think he would be on the Rams as we sit here in training camp of of 2025. and that he is and that he’s getting a little better and that he’s, you know, improving and and developing his skills, I think is a testament to, you know, giving guys a second chance and giving guys an opportunity to work their way through tough patches and he’s taking advantage of it. I give him all the credit in the world. Yeah. Matt Laflur said during the off season, he’s gone through a ton of growth, particularly from two years ago. A lot of credit to him working on what he needed to work on to get himself into this situation. It just always blows my mind. Think about this, Travis. This is his ninth season of football after high school. Like, think about how wild that is. Think about the experience he has. He’s older than Jaylen Herz, Justin Herbert, Jordan Love, and Two Attack of Vioa. As a walk-on at Georgia, his career was overlapping NFL veterans that have been in this league like Nick Chub, Sony Michelle, Rocoan Smith. He’s the same age as Kyler Murray. for a couple months this year. He’s gonna be the same age as Lamar Jackson and Sam Darnold. He turns 28 in October. So, I think that you can look at it a couple ways. And one, he has more experience. And two, it’s just always going to be kind of interesting to timeline him. And I think that there’s the Rams have a soft spot for him. I think that’s kind of my big take. It just feels like they have a soft spot for him. The teammates as well, they’re rooting for his success. And the truth is, he made the team last year as an emerging quarterback. So, and that’s hopefully for him what he does this year. Yeah. You know, it’s such a good point, Demac. I I really didn’t think of it quite like that and that it would have been really easy to move on from him. It would have been really one of those because look, I I think one of the things that you and I, we’ve talked about this and I think it’s one of the great um uh traits that the Rams organization has is when they make a mistake and every team does, every team’s going to make a draft pick that doesn’t work out or a trade that doesn’t work out or free agent signing that doesn’t work out, they move on from it relatively quickly. It’s like, we missed that one. Let’s move on to the next one. And they’ve gotten way more right than they’ve gotten wrong, but they don’t double down on bad decisions. But here he is. I mean, he’s still here. I think you’re right. I think there must be some sort of uh affinity, affection for for him because otherwise I think you’re right. I mean, this is not a hey, you know, he’s a young guy. He’s going to develop it. He’s not. He He’s He’s the opposite of a young guy. He’s an older guy and an older guy that has played a lot of football, but he hasn’t played a lot of NFL football. This is not like a a guy who, you know, was in college and then went went away for a while, came back, played. They’re just inexp it’s it’s not that at all. And yet he’s still here. And I think you’re exactly right. I think this is something that they feel like they want to try to make work for reasons that are probably beyond just football reasons. Um, it it’s a really interesting idea and the scenario of him basically getting the lion share of those reps in the preseason. They basically bring brought in dresser win as a emergency backup quarterback for the preseason. Basically a camp body. I mean the thing about the fact that Stson Bennett after this preseason is going to go down as one of the most experienced preseason quarterbacks in the history of the NFL, but he’s never played in a regular season game. It’s kind of wild. I think the question is does he make an NFL roster before 30? And if you’re him, I’m not saying he’s going to be current Warner, right? He made his debut at 27. He became the Rams quarterback and by 28. Doug Fluty started when he was 26, but didn’t come back to the NFL until he was 36. I think if you’re Stson Bennett, he just wants a career in the NFL in any capacity. And that’s why the Rams are kind of a comfortable situation for him because clearly they don’t see him as the answer as the backup because they brought Jimmy Garopppolo. They don’t see him as the answer when Stafford is gone and after this year, after next season, whatever that is. So, it’s really a situation where if he slid into a backup role, I think that would be a career W for him. Tell me you can’t close your eyes, Dmac, and see him on Sunday afternoon quarterbacking for the St. Louis Battlehawks of whatever we’re calling that league that exists right now. Like, does that not like that just feels like the place that he would be, right? a name that you’re familiar with, a a guy that had a a lot of success, and you have that moment where you’re you’re blindly flipping channels on a on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon like, “Oh, Stson Bennett’s on the uh Chicago Stallions.” Of course he is. And it just like that feels like where this is headed. Only he’s still knocking around an NFL roster. And not just any old NFL. Like if he were the third or fourth quarterback on the Tennessee Titans, you’d be like, “Okay, whatever. This is the Rams, man. This is Shawn McVey. This is Matthew St. Like the Rams have Jimmy Garopolo, a Super Bowl, you know, starting quarterback in the Super Bowl as their backup. They’re not playing around. I know we’re going to talk about Arch Manning here in a second that they’ve been, you know, quasi linked to uh recently. Like, this is a place where they take this very very seriously and he’s still here. I I think there has to be that there that’s a positive, right? that because I think in any other organization he would have been long gone down the road in one of those, you know, leagues that is not the NFL and yet here he is still trying to stick with one of what I think is one of the better run organizations in the league. Yeah. And you brought up a great point that I wanted to touch on is if you were a league out there and you were looking to kind of spark something, he would be someone you Oh, he’s a name. He’s a name that people are interested in. He’s got that juice, right? It’s like he’s he’s like kind of like Johnny Manzel adjacent in the sense that he’s kind of a college quarterback. Had so much success, has this kind of like folk hero status. I could see him on anything on another league like Love Island, you know, anything. Like I he if he’s on I’m interested like he like Ramp season has always been like lacking storylines. This is one to watch. And and he’s and I don’t mean this to be anything other than just factual. He’s he’s small. He’s a weird size. Like it doesn’t like it doesn’t add up in the NFL. Like you look at Matthew Stafford, you’re like, “Oh yeah, that’s an NFL quarterback.” You look at Jimmy Garopppolo, it’s like, “Oh yeah, that’s an NFL quarterback.” Like Stson Bennett should be in the UFFL. He should be like, it just doesn’t add up other than than the name. And if he wanted to go do uh what did you say? Love Island. I I I’m I’m in. I I’m not a Love Island regular, but that would probably make me one. No, it’s insane. The episode’s like an hour and 53 minutes. It’s like it’s insane. Like I I tapped out cuz cuz his Instagram and Tik Tok spoiled it for me. So I was like, “All right, fine. We’re good. We jump to the finish line there.” But another big storyline in camp for me. And another big takeaway after day two is Emanuel Forbes. I think he’s the big wild card in the secondary. You’ve got Kobe Durant, Kella Witherspoon, Darius Williams, and guys that can play that position. But as far as upside and ceiling goes, when the Rams claim him off waiverss, they committed to his contract. It wasn’t some rental or something like that. It was a true project and they were going to trust their player development. And Shawn McVey did say after practice yesterday that he’s been really pleased with Emanuel Forbes. He said that Forbes hasn’t lost any of the functional movement and the traits that made him a guy that was a first round pick. He said he’s had a good weight. That’s huge. That we feel like is functional. I think he’s really picked up where he left off in regards to you feel a lot of the plays. You feel an understanding of some of the things that we’re asking we are doing some of the things that give him opportunities to play in the framework of the scheme. And so he’s speaking highly of him which is always important especially for a player that has not got significant playing time. So clearly they’re in the process of giving him an opportunity if it presents itself and it’s on him to realize that potential. But hey, I I really think that Forbes is someone to definitely keep your eyes on. Listen to what M is saying about him and we’ll see how he performs when he gets his chance. Yeah, I think there’s you mentioned two things that are are super important. Number one, he’s still here, right? Like when they made the acquisition last year, it felt like kind of ah let’s see what it is and and if it works out, great. If it doesn’t, you know, no harm, no foul. We can just move on from it. Well, they didn’t move on from it. So clearly they’re seeing something that they believe that is is useful that something that they’re going to get something out of it. And number two, you know, this is a former first round pick that clearly has some ability. You don’t go in the first round if there’s not at least some raw material there. So that’s exciting. I I think that the rub is his size. He’s really really small and he’s very very thin. And you know, to hear McVey says he’s at a weight that they like, I think is is a good sign. And you know, this this is one of these things that feels like there’s only good things that can happen because you really haven’t invested in it in a meaningful way to where like to just go back to Bennett for a second. You know, you used a a relatively high pick on Stson Bennett that you could have used on somebody else that didn’t quite work out or at least isn’t a starter on your team or or a meaningful backup. that that’s not the the investment in a player like Forbes that if you can get a a a depth piece or even a starting piece for basically nothing, that’s uh that that’s a pretty good jump off point. So, I I’m optimistic and I I I have heard I’ve talked to a handful of people that have been out of camp and seen him and and and they thought the same thing. They thought he looked pretty good. So, that’s good news. Yeah, absolutely. And I love how McVey kind of poked a hole in both of these segments by saying quote this isn’t real football right now. But we know that but he did say that hey they have a great understanding of how to practice how to push the tempo. I look at what Jared Vers said about Puganua saying that he was a psychopath and those kind of early plays against him. There was a a nice tip drill interception by Darion Kendrick and Tanner Engel. So hey they’re out there. It’s the start of something and you can’t get to the clicking and clacking of the pads without this. So that we’re living through it. But we got to talk. Yeah. It’s it’s it we’re getting all all this means. It’s not real football, but what it does means is that real football is very close. And that’s the Yes. There we go. Absolutely. That’s what the most important thing. Yeah. To I I think I saw yesterday that yesterday was like the last Thursday night football for a long long time. Last night without Thursday night football for a long long time. So, that’s how close we are. That’s how close we are. It’s it’s uh it’s coming very quickly here. But coming up next, some quick thoughts on Arch Manning. That is coming up next on Locked on Rams. This episode is presented by Yahoo Fantasy. Fantasy football. We were just talking about how close we are, right? So, fantasy football is back as well. So, fire up your group chat, get on your draft boards, and get ready and buckle up for a season filled with breakouts, bus unfortunately, and all the overreactions that make this so much fun. It’s all going down on Yahoo Fantasy. And this year, us here at Lockdown Rams, we’re playing on Yahoo Fantasy. And you should, too. 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Okay. So, we’ll spend some more time talking about Arch Manning. Yeah. Later this week or early next week, but it is something to monitor. Something to My favorite thing is to monitor things now, right? We got to monitor. We’ll monitor. Yeah. Let’s just Let’s add this to the monitor list. Okay. And Todd Mcshay, he’s already cryptically hinted that the Rams were interested in Arch Manning. Now, Yahoo Sports’s Charles Robinson is connecting the Rams to Arch Manning in a little more detail. He wrote, “Speaking to a handful of Rams personnel sources, Manning is at this moment considered by the staff to be the lone tier one quarterback in the 2026 NFL draft. regardless of who else could potentially enter into the selection process. Why? The Rams covet Manning’s prototypical size and throwing acumen, but also believe it’s his level of athleticism that sets him apart from every other college football quarterback. So much so, the comparison for Manning inside the franchise is that his ceiling after the 2025 college football season could be a Josh Allen type of prospect who’s actually stronger physically and faster running athlete than Allen when he entered the draft in 2018. So, that’s extremely high praise. I mean, you’re talking about an elite quarterback with a pedigree and a name. And then also, we don’t know if he’s going to come out for the 2020 six draft. he could go back to school and play in 2027. But I think the big takeaway here is that the Rams would be willing to make a play on Manning even if Matthew Stafford has a good season in 2025 and is here for 2026. They’re thinking long term with Manning. Yeah, that that I think is is really interesting. You kind of think of Patrick Mahomes with Alex Alex Smith in his last year in Kansas City where you have a a veteran player and and you know I like Alex Smith. Matthew Stafford’s way better than Alex Smith. But the point being that you can kind of put a guy on ice and have him learn for a little bit and then all of a sudden you launch the next great era of your quarterback. That would be the the the dream scenario to be sure. Um I to use the word DMAC I was not monitoring Josh Allen when he was at the University of Wyoming. So, I don’t know. But I I I do think that everybody needs to pump the brakes a little bit comparing anybody to Josh Allen. Josh Allen’s one of, you know, is the reigning MVP in this league. He’s absolutely terrific. Um, but I don’t know, man. Maybe Josh Allen looked a lot like Arch Manning when he was at at Wyoming. I don’t really recall uh thinking that he was Josh Allen at that point. It was like, yeah, we’ll see what that turns out to. Um, the question is, and we can get into this, you know, o over the course of the next week or so, but is do the Rams have the ability to get to where they would need to get to to draft him? I know they have two first round draft picks. Maybe Atlanta’s turns into a relatively high pick. So, you package that with your own pick and you move up a few slots. But whoever ultimately probably has that first pick, you better hope they don’t need a quarterback and you better hope that somebody ahead of you doesn’t need a quarterback that you can get in front of because the the the price will be high. The the one thing that I’ll throw in there. Um and we always get a little ahead of ourselves, you know, just us that that do this for a living of well, this guy can go here. The NFL, you kind of have to go where you want to go. We were talking about Caleb Williams for a while. He didn’t want to go to Chicago. Well, where’s he? He’s in Chicago. That’s just how this league works. Unless your name is Manning, you know, and and the the Mannings know how to manipulate the system a little bit to kind of get where you want. Eli didn’t want to be in San Diego. He didn’t go to San Diego. He ended up in New York in a team that he was far more comfortable with. So, uh, never say never. It’s a it’s a long way away. It would be very expensive. The Rams would have to throw in a whole bunch of things to get it done. But, uh, it’s certainly an interesting idea. Absolutely. And here, Travis, here’s something else that we need to see. Here’s something else to root for. I don’t know that Arch Manning is actually good. He started two games. He has less than a thousand yards in his career. So, I mean, look, let’s be honest. I mean, I think we’re jumping the gun on him as a player. I mean, people were asking me, I mean, uh, I had someone in the comments and the last time we talked about Arch Manning saying, “Oh, is he good? Is he good?” And I and and my thought was, yeah, 100%. He’s good, right? We have all the facts. We always know which quarterbacks are going to be good. We have all the facts. I mean, just ask Mel Kyper about Jimmy Clawson, right? I mean, we have all the facts. We don’t know if he’s actually good, but I am but I am drinking the Kool-Aid on Arch Manning. I will say the talent certainly is there. The upside is clearly extremely high on him. And I think that there’s just a juice of being a Manning. I don’t know. For some reason, I can like you did do the did you do the close your eyes thing on me earlier? I can close my eyes and think of him in a Rams uniform and I can think of Rams fans wearing Manning Rams stuff. Yeah. No, he it it fits for a hundred million reasons. I I think your your question is a good one. It’s the one that Steve Spurer asked not that long ago that hey, can we not crown this guy quite yet? He didn’t beat out Quinn Eers who was a seventh round draft pick. Like, can can we just pump the brakes? Now, that’s I think a a reasonable point to take, but just because one guy’s a better college quarterback than you are doesn’t make you a better pro than the other guy. They’re they’re totally different there. You know, what they’re asking him to do at Texas may be different than what an NFL team is asking him to do. Um I I would when it comes to a pedigree like that, I would feel really good about taking a swing. I think it mitigates some of the risk, not all of it obviously, but uh I think you bring up a really good point. This you just kind of that hey, does this feel right? Yeah, it kind of does. And giving Shawn McVey, you know, a young quarterback to build in the the image that he would like to have. That’s that’s really exciting. Totally agree. By the way, Rams fans, if you’re not college football fans this year, you’re going to have to be one. You got to watch your Texas Longhorns to see how Arch Manning performs. But that’s going to do it for this episode of Locked On Rams. My name is Doug McCain. You can follow me on X and Instagram at Dmac_la. You can follow the people’s channel, Mr. Travis Rogers, Travis Rogers. Until next time, whose house it’s locked on Ram’s

The Rams are reportedly very high on Texas quarterback Arch Manning. D-Mac and Travis discuss how the Rams could end up with Arch Manning. Plus, early training camp takeaways including an impressive early showing by the young running backs, and a major x-factor cornerback.

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