After buying and selling their first-round choose the earlier evening, the Rams on Friday chosen Oregon tight finish Terrance Ferguson within the second spherical with the forty sixth total choose.
The Rams drafted Ferguson to bolster a place group that features veteran Tyler Higbee, Colby Parkinson and Davis Allen.
The Rams went into the draft with no second-round choose. They acquired the forty sixth choose, a seventh-round choose and a 2026 first-round choose in a commerce with the Atlanta Falcons.
The Rams nonetheless have picks within the third and fourth rounds, three within the sixth and one within the seventh.
Sean McVay provides pep speak to first responders
Rams coach Sean McVay speaks to first responders at L.A. Fireplace Dept. Air Command on April 25, 2025.
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Rams coach Sean McVay is accustomed to inspiring gamers on the sphere and within the workforce’s assembly rooms and locker rooms.
On Friday, because the Rams ready for the second evening of the draft, McVay used his oratory abilities earlier than one other assemblage of execs.
About 150 first responders who have been concerned in operations through the Palisades and Eaton fires in January have been readily available on the Los Angeles Fireplace Division Air Operations headquarters in Van Nuys, the place the Rams are conducting the draft.
Group president Kevin Demoff and McVay addressed the group that was made up of attendees from a number of hearth and legislation enforcement businesses in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
A gaggle of Rams gamers that included quarterback Matthew Stafford, receiver Puka Nacua, edge rusher Jared Verse, defensive linemen Kobie Turner and Braden Fiske, Higbee and working backs Kyren Williams and Blake Corum mingled and posed for images with the group.
Corum echoed McVay, describing the primary responders as true heroes.
“Coach McVay is a very inspirational person,” Corum stated. “Hearing him talk [Friday] about how inspirational the first responders are… was wonderful. But being here was even better.”
LAFD Capt. Erik Scott, the division’s public info officer, praised the Rams for his or her neighborhood outreach and reduction efforts.
“We strive to be leaders in our own professions and sections,” Scott stated, “and to see true leaders of other arenas inspire a group of people like that was really impressive.”
