The Rams have been sliding backwards since they lost Kevin Dotson in the middle of their loss to the Seattle Seahawks, but Sean McVay is hopeful that the guard can return to action this Sunday against the Bears. McVay told reporters on Wednesday that Dotson intends to play, but he was listed as \u2018limited\u2019 for Wednesday\u2019s walkthrough so his status won\u2019t be so clear until Thursday\u2019s designation.<\/p>\n
Matthew Stafford and company would love to get Dotson back to replace Justin Dedich in a win-or-go-home road game in Chicago.<\/p>\n
The Rams were 11-3 and on track to beat the Seahawks for first place in the NFC West when Seattle edge rusher Derick Hall stepped on Dotson\u2019s leg and sent him out of the game. Hall was suspended for one game.<\/p>\n
L.A. would go on to lose the game and the next week against the Falcons. The Rams haven\u2019t quite looked the same in their last two games either, but have beaten the Cardinals and Panthers. Stafford told the media that he misses having \u201cgreat guy\u201d Dotson out there with him.<\/p>\n
On Hall, Dotson told reporters that he wasn\u2019t even aware that Hall had stepped on him intentionally until two days after the game. He says he\u2019s over it but would love to get his shot at revenge if both the Rams and Seahawks win this weekend.<\/p>\n
However, Dotson would probably rather avoid a revenge game if possible because if the Rams and 49ers both win, L.A. will be hosting the NFC Championship game against San Francisco.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear how likely it is that Dotson will be back this week. It\u2019s clear that the Rams really need him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams have been sliding backwards since they lost Kevin Dotson in the middle of their loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,31727,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-678172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-injuries","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115896908994878738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678172","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=678172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}