Nick Foles has not shown up since Rams drafted Jared Goff
It has slipped through the cracks a bit with other, more high-profile quarterback standoffs happening around the league, but as ESPN.com pointed out Nick Foles has not shown up at the Los Angeles Rams facility since Jared Goff was the franchise’s No. 1 overall selection in the draft.
And, yes, to spare us all the sarcasm, he is aware that the team moved this offseason. Foles actually was a regular, according to the report, at the team’s offseason activities, which began on April 18. But since April 30, the day the Rams picked Goff first, Foles has stayed away.
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Foles, of course, has every right to do so. To date, all the activities have been voluntary, although with the start of OTAs arriving, that all changes as these sessions are required to attend. It certainly underscores his position on the team, which is tenuous at best.
When the Rams first made the move from St. Louis to L.A., it was Case Keenum, and not Foles, who was pegged as the starter at the time by head coach Jeff Fisher. Keenum replaced Foles, who made nine starts last season after being acquired in a swap for Sam Bradford and draft picks.
Now it appears Bradford is uncomfortable in Philadelphia and Foles hasn’t exactly embraced L.A. But it has less to do with the environment and more to do with Goff, for whom the Rams traded up (using one of the picks in the Foles trade to do so).
Would anyone trade for Foles? He was paid a roster bonus of $6 million already this year, but his base salary of $1.75 million makes it possible. It all depends on what other teams think about Foles and their own quarterbacks. We apparently know what the Rams think of Foles and what he thinks of them currently.
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