Jeff Fisher got right to the point. The St. Louis Rams coach didn’t try, even for a second, to make Bradley Marquez believe he came bearing bad news.
The rookie wide receiver from Texas Tech had made the team.
Welcome to the NFL. You’re really a Ram.
“It was just amazing to hear it from coach Fisher, to hear the great news,” Marquez said Wednesday, describing the phone call he got last weekend. “Hearing it from him was pretty awesome.”
Of all the rookies to make 53-man rosters around the league this year, Marquez was one of the longest shots.