{"id":22638,"date":"2025-05-04T07:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/22638\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T07:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:58:13","slug":"terrance-ferguson-didnt-talk-to-rams-much-beforehand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/22638\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrance Ferguson didn’t talk to Rams much beforehand"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Rams<\/a> always do a good job of hiding which draft prospects they\u2019re interested in each year. That\u2019s partly because they don\u2019t send their top talent evaluators to the NFL combine and they also don\u2019t bring in prospects for official pre-draft visits like just about every other team does.<\/p>\n

Terrance Ferguson<\/a> wasn\u2019t completely caught off guard by the Rams drafting him in Round 2, but they also didn\u2019t spend much time with him before the draft. He said he had a formal meeting with one member of the Rams at the combine and \u201cthat was about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I actually had a formal interview with just one person, not even everybody, during the Combine and that was about it,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, the Rams are a great organization, great offense, great people leading the organization. I’m super excited to be a part of that.”<\/p>\n

Ferguson was a top target for the Rams, especially after trading back from No. 26 to 46. He was one of the best tight ends in the class, which was clearly a position of need for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The Rams are thrilled to have added an athletic tight end like him in the draft, allowing them to expand their offense beyond being so reliant on 11 personnel<\/a>. As for what he brings to the equation, here\u2019s what Ferguson said.<\/p>\n

“I think I bring a lot of things, versatility being the biggest, being able to stretch the field and creating mismatches with linebackers or safeties but also being able to put my nose on somebody,\u201d he said. \u201cThe God-gifted ability, but also the versatility and ability to be able to line up anywhere and be able to make an impact however I need to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams always do a good job of hiding which draft prospects they\u2019re interested in each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[204,80,247,265,240,1965,19,7,239,58,248,267,88,6,15,1967,245,537,530,424,1964,9,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-22638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-204","9":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","10":"tag-american","11":"tag-american-football","12":"tag-angeles","13":"tag-combine","14":"tag-draft","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-los","17":"tag-los-angeles-rams","18":"tag-national","19":"tag-national-sports","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nfl","22":"tag-nfl-draft","23":"tag-nfl-scouting-combine","24":"tag-overall","25":"tag-overall-positive","26":"tag-positive","27":"tag-rams","28":"tag-scouting","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114448505574143991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}