Jaguars trade Ramsey to Rams
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Rams acquired star cornerback Jalen Ramsey from the Jacksonville Jaguars on Tuesday night in exchange for two firstround picks and a fourthrounder.
Jacksonville gets firstround picks from the Rams in 2020 and 2021, and a fourth-round pick in 2021..
Ramsey is one of the NFL’s elite defensive backs, earning two Pro Bowl selections in three seasons with Jaguars. The fifth overall pick in the 2016 draft has nine career interceptions, but his tumultuous tenure is Jacksonville is over.
Ramsey, 24, was selected by Jaguars with the fifth pick in the 2016 draft. He is earning about $7.4 million this season, and the Jaguars have exercised their fifthyear option, which would pay Ramsey $13.7 million in 2020. But Ramsey made his feelings known about an extension when he arrived for training camp in an armored truck. He has argued on the sideline with coach Doug Marrone and reportedly asked to be traded.
The Rams also traded two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Marcus Peters to the Ravens for linebacker Kenny Young and an undisclosed draft pick.
Hip injury ends Crawford’s season
Cowboys veteran Tyrone Crawford is set to have surgery on his injured hip that has plagued him all year, effectively ending his 2019 season.
Crawford missed games in Weeks 3 and 4 due to the injury, but was on the field for 19 snaps in Sunday’s loss to the New York Jets.
League confirms official’s mistake
The NFL acknowledged that a key penalty called against the Detroit Lions in their nationally-televised loss Monday night at Green Bay was wrong.
Troy Vincent, the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations, said that one of two illegal-hands-to-the-face penalties called against Lions defensive lineman Trey Flowers was incorrect.
“There was one that was clear that we support,” Vincent said at an NFL owners’ meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. “And there was another that when you look at it, when you review the play, it’s not something that you want to see called, in particular on the pass rush . . . . The foul wasn’t there.”
Coaches and others have been critical of the application of the new system making pass interference reviewable by instant replay. That system was ratified by owners of the 32 NFL teams in March after a blatant pass interference penalty by the Rams went uncalled in last season’s NFC championship game in New Orleans, allowing the Rams rather than the Saints to advance to the Super Bowl. The latest venting came after Packers beat the Lions, 23-22, Monday night at Lambeau Field on a field goal as time expired, with Green Bay’s winning drive extended by the penalty called on Flowers. Replays showed Flowers did not put his hands into the face of the lineman who was blocking him.
Concussions rise by 44 percent
The NFL says the number of concussions in exhibition games this year rose to 49 from 34 in 2018, an increase of 44 percent and a setback in efforts to reduce brain trauma.
Odds and ends
Saints defensive back P.J. Williams has been suspended two games for a violation of the NFL’s substance abuse policy. … The Raiders are partnering with a California-based tribal casino on a new stadium in Las Vegas. The $2 billion facility is scheduled to be completed in 2020. … Steelers defensive end Stephon Tuitt’s season is over after he sustained a pectoral injury on Sunday.