Rams coach Jeff Fisher held a press conference shortly after the 4 p.m. ET deadline for teams to cut their rosters to 53 players on Saturday, but he wasn’t there to discuss the team’s roster moves.
Fisher said that the team wasn’t releasing their cuts, which have been made, because of the competitive advantage he believes it gives them when it comes to signing players back to the practice squad.
While Fisher was squatting on that information in order to up his chances of getting the 62nd player on the roster that he wants, he was less concerned with any competitive advantage that might be squandered by ruling out running back Todd Gurley for the season opener against the Seahawks. Fisher’s announcement comes as no great surprise given the patient approach that the Rams have taken with Gurley since taking him in the first round of the draft.
Unless Fisher decides to take the mystery out of it at some point, attention will now shift to Tre Mason’s status. Mason hurt his hamstring last month and Fisher called him questionable for the Seahawks game two weeks before kickoff. If he can’t play, Benny Cunningham will likely start for St. Louis.
