Sean McVay shuts down doable Rams passion in Leonard Fournette for 2020 season

Rely the Los Angeles Rams out of the list of doable suitors for Leonard Fournette. A day after Fournette become waived by the Jacksonville Jaguars, Rams head coach Sean McVay confirmed Los Angeles would maybe no longer be placing a tell on on the outmoded first-round resolve. 

“He’s a like minded player, but we indubitably feel like minded relating to the guys we have in-home,” McVay said on a conference name Tuesday, by capacity of Eric Williams of Sports Illustrated. “We’re no longer having a seek data from at any person externally. I’ve been very pleased with our backs.”

Los Angeles will roll the dice on a rotation that contains Darrell Henderson, Cam Akers, and Malcolm Brown, a trio that makes a combined $3.39 million this season — tremendously no longer up to the $9.2 million Todd Gurley made final year. Gurley rushed for 857 yards and 12 touchdowns in 15 games, averaging true 3.8 yards per raise. Your entire Rams operating backs have to entire are numbers increased than Gurley’s in 2020 and they’ll receive immense bang for their buck at the placement. 

Which operating back is slated to originate amongst the committee? Los Angeles nonetheless hasn’t made that call, but operating backs coach Thomas Brown desires a “sure-minimize guy” as the starter.

“I mediate it be whatever helps up employ a football sport,” Brown said final week. “I mediate every single subject is going to be quite loads of. Obviously, I mediate you would derive to have a transparent-minimize guy to preserve the wide majority of reps and having obvious guys that have a job in that offense, but I mediate it be all about how those guys continue to invent and what they discontinue nicely for us offensively and what can aid us employ football games.”

Akers has potentially the most doable out of the neighborhood — the Rams’ 2020 2d-round resolve rushed for 1,144 yards and 14 touchdowns (5.0 yards per raise) within the back of a miserable offensive line in his junior season at Florida Direct. Akers’ explosiveness and physical play translate toward turning precise into a three-down back at the NFL level, but he would maybe need time to get his feet moist within the league — in particular with no offseason minicamp and a dinky coaching camp. 

Henderson carried the ball 39 occasions for 147 yards in his rookie season, playing sparingly in 13 games as the third option. Brown shall be most suitable to a No. 2 role or as a goal-line back, after dashing for 255 yards on 69 carries and five touchdowns as the backup to Gurley final season.

The Rams drafted Akers in accordance alongside with his doable and it wouldn’t be horrifying to seek data from him originate Week 1, but Henderson and Brown are striking up a like minded fight for the job. Who the Rams derive to bound alongside with is any person’s guess superb now.