Rams' first notable cut of training camp is already painfully obvious

The Los Angeles Rams face the inevitable, painful, and difficult decisions over who to keep and who to release from the roster. It's an annual event, one that all 32 NFL teams must face. While it's never an easy task, the overall talent level on the Rams roster has risen to the point where the team may be forced to shed eventual NFL starters.

And it's coming. That annual period that changes a 90-man training camp roster into a 53-man roster that will carry the team through 17 regular-season games, and hopefully to victory in Super Bowl LX. So to say that there is a lot of pressure on those decisions is a gross understatement.

But it has to start somewhere, right? And as preseason games queue up on the Rams' schedule soon, the team is already deciding the future fate of players. So who will it be? The obvious answer is backup quarterback Dresser Winn.

Dresser Winn is on the outside looking in at Rams training camp

LA signed backup quarterback Dresser Winn for a very specific and limited role. At the time that Winn was first rumored to be returning for another training camp, fans were not thrilled. Winn had just ended playing in the UFA, an alternate football league that loses multiple players to the NFL.

Former Rams backup quarterback Bryce Perkins was among the players expected to draw interest from NFL teams. After all, Perkins was awarded UFL MVP honors. So it made perfect sense for the team to re-sign him and see if he could be the next franchise quarterback.

But the team was not interested in the training camp competition at quarterback. Despite the imminent arrival of training camp, the Rams were already settled on the notion that Matthew Stafford is the starting quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo is the primary backup, and Stetson Bennett is the developmental quarterback who will run the offense in preseason games.

All the team had left to offer was a temporary role to a quarterback to handle training camp throws and run the offense in the third and final preseason game. Winn did so in 2024 and is happy to do so in 2025.

Winn has hopes and aspirations to compete in football. But he had just ended a season in the UFL. Winn and his agent know that he needs to enhance his skills to star in football. So, what better way than to sign on for the 2025 Rams training camp, be coached up by Rams QB Coach Dave Ragone, get reps, and be mentored by Matthew Stafford, Jimmy Garoppolo, and Stetson Bennett?

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There is no better way to develop quarterback skills.

While the Rams would love to see Dresser Winn shock everyone with huge success in training camp, that is not something the team is counting on. And it's that reason that makes it painfully obvious that Dresser Winn will be the first player released by the team.

He is here to improve his football skills, not to win a job on the Rams roster. And as always, thanks for reading.

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