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Last Updated: March 16, 2024, 00:00 IST
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Safety Kamren Curl agreed to phrases on a twoyear contract with the Los Angeles Rams on Friday.
LOS ANGELES: Safety Kamren Curl agreed to phrases on a two-yr contract with the Los Angeles Rams on Friday.
Curl’s deal is price $8.75 million and could possibly be price as much as $12.75 million.
Curl spent his first 4 NFL seasons with the Washington Commanders, who drafted him out of Arkansas within the seventh spherical. He rapidly grew to become a key element of their protection, incomes a beginning job halfway by means of his rookie season.
Curl performed each security spots and steadily took on the duties of a linebacker within the Commanders’ defensive scheme. He had a profession-excessive 115 tackles final season.
He could possibly be the substitute for Jordan Fuller, who’s a free agent after beginning all 17 video games for the Rams final season. John Johnson, who’s a free agent, and Russ Yeast began on the different security spot final yr.
Fuller has been a starter at any time when wholesome in his 4 seasons with Los Angeles, however an ankle damage sidelined him for your complete postseason two years in the past, together with the Rams’ Super Bowl victory in February 2022. Fuller then missed many of the 2022 season with a hamstring damage earlier than returning final season.
Curl joins a protection that has already added cornerback Darious Williams in free company whereas looking for to restock a secondary that was possible its weakest level final season. The protection additionally should handle the lack of star defensive deal with Aaron Donald, who introduced his retirement Friday.
The protection additionally could have a brand new coordinator, with Chris Shula changing Raheem Morris.
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