Dec 10, 2017; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz (11) is pressured by Los Angeles Rams outside linebacker Robert Quinn (94) ending up in a sack in the first half of the game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Photo Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
The Los Angeles Rams reached agreement on their second major trade of the offseason, sending two-time Pro Bowl defensive end Robert Quinn to the Miami Dolphins.
The Rams will receive a mid-round draft pick in exchange for Quinn, and the teams will swap late-round picks, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported.
No trades can become official until the new league year starts on March 14, but teams can agree to trades.
The Rams earlier reached an agreement to acquire cornerback Marcus Peters from Kansas City. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported the Rams wanted to include Quinn in the deal with the Chiefs, but Kansas City received second- and fourth-round draft picks instead.
The 27-year-old Quinn has played his entire career for the Rams. He started 14 games in 2017, when he had 8.5 sacks.
Quinn is under contract for two more years and is scheduled to make $11.4 million in 2018 and $13 million in 2019.
–The Atlanta Falcons announced they have cut defensive end Derrick Shelby, and Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reported the team plans to release tight end Levine Toilolo as well.
Cutting Shelby will clear $3.25 million under the cap for the Falcons. Shelby was scheduled to make a base salary of $4.5 million in 2018.
The Falcons signed Shelby to a four-year, $18 million contract in March of 2016. He sustained a torn Achilles tendon in his first season with the Falcons, limiting him to six games, but he recorded 30 tackles and one sack while making 14 starts in 2017.
Toilolo has started 57 games for the Atlanta Falcons, including 12 starts in 2017. He signed a three-year, $12-million contract with the Falcons in March 2017. Releasing him will clear $2.5 million in cap space with $2 million in dead money left behind.
–Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles has filed a workplace violence prevention restraining order against former NFL offensive lineman Jonathan Martin, according to multiple media reports.
The order against Martin, who graduated from the school before going to Stanford, was filed at Santa Monica Courthouse, according to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The 28-year-old Martin was detained for questioning in Los Angeles last Friday after making a threatening post that mentioned the school on Instagram. He was released later in the day, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
A law enforcement source told KABC-TV in Los Angeles that Martin is being held in a mental health facility.
–Dallas Cowboys vice president of player personnel Will McClay signed a two-year contract extension, ESPN reported.
Per ESPN’s Todd Archer, McClay’s contract extension comes after he declined the opportunity to interview for the then-vacant general manager position with the Houston Texans.
–Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson got a chance to bat in a spring training game for the New York Yankees on Friday, but the result was not promising.
In the bottom of the fifth inning, Wilson was sent to the plate to pinch-hit for Aaron Judge. Facing Atlanta Braves reliever Max Fried, Wilson fouled the first pitch back before working the count to 2-and-2. Wilson then struck out swinging at a fastball.
Mark Payton replaced Wilson and played right field in the sixth inning.
–The San Francisco 49ers got the better of their Bay Area rivals by winning a coin flip against the Oakland Raiders to secure the ninth overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.
The Raiders, as a result, will select 10th before the teams rotate spots after the first round. The coin flip was necessary for the draft order after the 49ers and Raiders finished the 2017 season with identical 6-10 records to go along with a matching strength of schedule percentage (.512).
–Ohio State interior offensive lineman Billy Price, considered a mid-first round prospect by NFLDraftScout.com, said he suffered only an “incomplete pec tear” while doing the bench press at the NFL Scouting Combine.
Price stopped after three repetitions on Thursday, grimacing in obvious discomfort and reaching toward his left shoulder. He said he received results of an MRI exam on Friday morning.
–Former Pro Bowl offensive lineman Branden Albert was arrested this week at a jewelry store after smashing a cabinet, tackling an officer and attempting to leave the area after being tased, multiple media outlets reported Friday.
Albert was charged with criminal damage to property, which is a felony, and willful obstruction of law enforcement officers, which is a misdemeanor, USA Today reported based on online jail records.
The 33-year-old Albert was in a jail in Fulton County, Ga., as of Friday morning. The incident occurred on Wednesday in Atlanta.
Albert was traded from the Miami Dolphins to the Jacksonville Jaguars in March 2017. He announced his retirement on July 31, but a week later decided he wanted to continue playing. The Jaguars then released Albert from the reserve/retired list on Aug. 11.
–Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly announced that he will undergo reconstructive surgery on his upper jaw to treat a recurrence of oral cancer.
Kelly told WGRZ-TV via telephone that the surgery will take place later this month in New York and will involve his fibula and blood vessels from his leg. The surgery will close a large interior hole in his jaw where it was operated on a few years ago.
–The Oakland Raiders might be ready to part ways with running back Marshawn Lynch after only one season, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
The Review-Journal story claims the Raiders are “uncomfortable” with Lynch’s $8-million salary for next season, and added that wide receiver Michael Crabtree is in the same situation, even tough new coach Jon Gruden recently said Crabtree would return.
The story adds that one or both players could return if they agree to renegotiate their contracts for a lower salary.
–New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is not under any timetable to divulge whether he will return for the 2018 season, agent Drew Rosenhaus told PFT Live.
Rosenhaus, however, declined to comment as to whether the Patriots have asked for a decision by a specific date.
Reports suggest that Gronkowski, 28, has been mulling both acting and professional wrestling as opposed to football.
–Chip Kelly expressed happiness for both Nick Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles after the quarterback led the team to its first Super Bowl title in franchise history.
Kelly, a former Eagles coach who is now at the helm at UCLA, told Philly.com that he’s “really happy for them (the Eagles)” as well as for Foles, who was his quarterback in the City of Brotherly Love in 2013.
“Credit to Nick, because he’d been through so much,” Kelly said of Foles, who endured some lean years before stepping up in place of an injured Carson Wentz and winning MVP honors in Super Bowl LII.
–Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome didn’t mince words when discussing the importance of the offseason for wide receiver Breshad Perriman.
“It’s up to Breshad,” Newsome told the Baltimore Sun. “He knows this is his opportunity to make or break being part of the Ravens.”
Newsome noted that Perriman, who is in the final year of his rookie deal, will participate in offseason workouts.
