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IRVINE, Calif. — As Matthew Stafford led the Los Angeles Rams’ offense down the field, Jalen Ramsey stood on the defensive sideline, play script in hand.
Ramsey, who is recovering from offseason surgery on his left shoulder, sat out the first two weeks of practice before being cleared by team doctors on Saturday. While recuperating, the cornerback looked like another assistant coach on the sidelines with his Rams No. 5 T-shirt and bucket hat, which is exactly why head coach Sean McVay opted not to put Ramsey on the PUP list to start camp.
After he did some rehab during individual drills, you could usually find Ramsey next to defensive coordinator Raheem Morris or coaching up a teammate as soon as a play is over.
“Actually, it’s terrible having him as a coach,” Morris said with a smile. “He’s got all the answers. He wants to make all the checks. He wants to do all this stuff.
“He’s like a really good player that turns into a coach, and they become a really bad coach and they end up quitting and doing something else. … I can’t wait till he is a player again.”
Morris laughed, before saying, “He is a lot of fun, though.”
The truth is, for as much as Ramsey and his defensive coordinator have gone back and forth on the sideline, Morris said his star cornerback has shown during camp “how involved he is into what we do and how invested he is into his young players.”
When Ramsey was asked about his role on the sideline early in training camp, he said he’s glad he can help his teammates, but ultimately, he just couldn’t stay away.
“It’s kind of the only way I can enjoy it,” Ramsey said. “Because I want to be out there. You know what I mean?”
Ramsey said he carried the play script so he could know exactly what the playcall is and therefore “the certain techniques that I feel like they should’ve been…
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