The Rams are getting some excellent play from their rookie safeties, Devin Fuller and Terrell Burgess, but there’s no doubt they’d love to have Taylor Rapp in practice, too. Rapp has now every padded practice of camp for the Rams with a knee injury, which Sean McVay indicated isn’t anything major.
He remained out on Friday and it’s highly unlikely he’ll take part in Saturday’s scrimmage at SoFi Stadium. McVay said recently that he’s hoping Rapp will be on the field in the next week or so, but couldn’t put a firm timetable on the safeties return.
“I don’t know specifically,” McVay said Wednesday. “I’m hoping that in the next week or so he’ll be able to get back out on the field. I’ll get with (head trainer) Reggie (Scott). He is making good progress, but I would anticipate in the next week we’ll have some clarity on hopefully him returning to play.”
In Rapp’s place, Fuller and Burgess have been outstanding in practice. They’ve each picked off passes and worked with the starters, transitioning quickly to the NFL after successful college careers.
At least the Rams now know they have some quality backups in the event that one of their starting safeties misses a lot of time.
