Rams sign ex-Dolphin Suh to one-year deal

Safety Thomas goes to Giants; Eagles’ Bennett surrenders.

The Los Angeles Rams agreed Monday to a oneyear contract with Ndamukong Suh, adding the dominant tackle to their defensive front alongside All-Pro Aaron Donald.

Suh was released by the Miami Dolphins earlier this month after three seasons when he declined to restructure his contract. He attracted widespread interest before agreeing to join the defending NFC West champion Rams. Suh is a five-time Pro Bowl pick during his eight-year career with Detroit and Miami.

The Rams should have a fear some front on coordinator Wade Phillips’ 3-4 scheme. Suh and Michael Brockers are expected to start alongside Donald, the AP’s Defensive Player of the Year.

Giants: Signed safety Michael Thomas, who spent the last five seasons in Miami. Thomas played in 13 games last season with two starts. He had 16 tackles, plus seven special teams tackles.

Eagles: All-Pro defensive end Michael Bennett surrendered to authorities in Houston on a charge that he injured a paraplegic woman as he tried to get onto the field after last year’s Super Bowl to celebrate with his brother. Bennett made a brief court appearance Monday where the judge set his bond at $10,000 on a felony count of injury to the elderly. He was expected to post bail and be released. The Eagles acquired Michael Bennett from the Seahawks in a trade this offseason.

Redskins: Signed freeagent linebacker Pernell McPhee, who spent the past three seasons with the Bears. Knee and shoulder injuries limited McPhee to 22 games over the past two seasons.

Browns: Re-signed freeagent linebacker Tank Carder, who missed last season with a knee injury. Carder has been a valuable contributor since the Browns claimed him off waivers from Buffalo in 2012. He has been on the Cleveland roster longer than any player. The 6-foot-2, 235-pounder was expected to start last season before he tore a knee ligament. Joe Schobert took his spot and made the Pro Bowl in his second season.

■ The Browns also agreed to a two-year contact with free agent QB Drew Stanton, who will likely back up Tyrod Taylor, recently acquired in a trade. Stanton spent the past four seasons with Arizona and went 3-1 in four starts last season.

Lions: Signed Jonathan Freeny, a free-agent linebacker who played with three teams — New England, Baltimore and New Orleans — last season.

NFL meetings: Mention the names Calvin Johnson, Dez Bryant, Zach Miller and Jesse James, and what looked, sounded and felt like a catch wasn’t one. If NFL owners pass a proposal from the powerful competition committee, those will be receptions in the future.

According to committee chairman Rich McKay and league officiating director Al Riveron, it’s time.

“We want to take these great catches and make them into catches,” Riveron said Monday at the NFL meetings, where the owners likely will vote today on the adjustments to the catch rule. Such phrases as “slight movement of the ball” and “surviving the ground” will disappear, and fans, players and coaches will get the fulfilment of knowing what they were sure was a reception actually is.

The new proposal will say that a receiver must:

■ Have control of the ball;

■ Get two feet down or another body part;

■ Make a football move: taking a third step or extending the ball or something similar.

Gone, Riveron emphatically said, is surviving the ground. “That’s out,” he said. “No mas.”