Rams ready for OTA team workouts
87 players start the battle for 53 roster spots
Sean McVay share a practice laugh with Matthew Stafford. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) With the Los Angeles Rams a month into their voluntary offseason training activities (OTAs), things are beginning to heat up at the Woodland Hills training facility.
L. A. is ready to take to the field en masse for Phase 3 of spring workouts, organized offense/defense work, on May 26.
The rookie mini-camp (May 8-10) just finished up, so the yearlings now join the field with vets, who have been in-house since April 20, for limited individual/positional work. OTAs are broken into three phases over a nine-week period, according to Article 21 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement here’s how it breaks down: Phase One consists of the first two weeks of the program with activities limited to meetings, strength and conditioning, and physical rehabilitation only. Phase Two consists of the next three weeks of the program.
On-field workouts may include individual or group instruction and drills, as well as “perfect play drills,” and drills and plays with offensive players lining up across from offensive players and defensive players lining up across from defensive players, conducted at a walk-through pace. No live contact or team offense vs. team defense drills are permitted.