Rams ordered to pay RB Bush $12.5 mln
Colts QB Lucle expected ready for training camp
NEW YORK, June 13, (RTRS): A jury ordered the Los Angeles Rams to pay former NFL running back Reggie Bush $12.45 million on Tuesday in a lawsuit stemming from an injury Bush suffered at the Rams’ stadium in St Louis in 2015, according to the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Per the Post-Dispatch, the jury awarded Bush $4.95 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive damages after finding the then-St Louis Rams 100 percent liable.
“I’m very happy with the verdict,” Bush told the Post-Dispatch. “The people spoke and decided very fairly.”
For the first time since last October, Andrew Luck was seen throwing regulation-size footballs at the Indianapolis Colts’ mandatory minicamp on Tuesday, and he is expected to be without limitations entering training camp.
The Colts’ Twitter account posted video of Luck dropping back and throwing a pass to the flats, along with the caption, “Another step closer.”
Luck was throwing a Wilson TDS 1205, a standard high school football that is lighter than NFL footballs.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen, a rookie first-round pick, has worked his way into the first-team offense on a timeshare basis, Buffalo coach Sean McDermott said.
Though Lamar Jackson’s arrival put Joe Flacco’s long-term future with the Baltimore Ravens in doubt, the team is less focused right now on a quarterback competition than it is on maximizing use of both of its signal-callers together. Jackson, the 32nd overall pick in April’s draft, has been lining up at different spots with the first-team offense alongside Flacco, the starting quarterback.
New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr will not participate in team drills during minicamp.
Beckham’s attendance was uncertain until last week, when coach Pat Shurmur said the Giants expected the mercurial wideout to be at the first mandatory workout of the summer.
Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy’s annual tradition of giving established veterans a hall pass for mandatory minicamp continued for a third offseason.
Players with six or more years of experience in the NFL – including quarterback Aaron Rodgers – were dismissed the past two years. McCarthy said Tuesday the criteria for dismissal was different this time but didn’t offer details. Rodgers, however, was one of the 16 players dismissed from the workouts that run Tuesday through Thursday.
Entering the final year of his rookie deal and looking to score a longterm extension that makes him the highest-paid player at his position, Tennessee Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan is skipping the team’s minicamp this week.
Titans GM Jon Robinson said in a statement, “We have had several constructive conversations over the last 5-6 weeks about his contract status. He is currently under contract and we are working to keep Taylor as part of this organization for a long time.”
Holding out of camp is nothing new for Aaron Donald and the Los Angeles Rams. So when the team took the field for the first practice of minicamp on Tuesday, there was little surprise they did so without the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year.