Jaguars’ Ramsey headed to Rams for 3 draft picks
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 fourthround pick in 2021..
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. But Ramsey made his feelings known about an extension when he arrived for training camp in an armored truck. During the season he has argued with coach Doug Marrone and reportedly asked to be traded.
The Rams traded twotime Pro Bowl cornerback Marcus Peters to the Ravens for linebacker Kenny Young and an undisclosed draft pick.
Dallas’ Crawford to have surgery
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 two games due to injury, but was on the field for 19 plays in Sunday’s loss to the 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.
The review came after Packers beat the Lions, 2322, Monday night 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.
Odds and ends
The Texans signed offensive tackle Dan Skipper to their 53man roster off the Patriots’ practice squad and cut center Marcus Henry from the squad, league sources told the Houston Chronicle. … The NFL says the number of concussions in exhibition games this year rose to 49 from 34 in 2018. … Saints DB P.J. Williams has been suspended two games for a violation of the NFL’s substance abuse policy. … The Raiders are partnering with a tribal casino on a new stadium in Las Vegas. … Steelers DE Stephon Tuitt is out for the year with a pectoral injury.