The St. Louis Rams had three starters that didn’t practice all week but weren’t rule out against the Minnesota Vikings.
There was a time in the NFL that, if you didn’t practice, you didn’t play. Even with the tricks and shenanigans teams use to disguise the severity of injuries – Andrew Luck’s alleged broken ribs come to mind – with very few exceptions, when a player doesn’t practice during the week, he doesn’t play on Sunday.
For the St. Louis Rams tomorrow, it will be interesting to see how that time-honored mantra is treated.
In the final injury reports released Friday, four Rams starters were listed as not practicing all week.