49ers
- San Francisco hosted RB Abram Smith for a visit. (Aaron Wilson)
Cardinals
Cardinals S Jalen Thompson wasn’t worried about his contract situation and says that things haven’t changed now that he has received a new one.
“I was pretty confident that it would come. Just one of those things. I had to just keep playing throughout the training camp, not really focusing on that, and just worrying about Kansas City,” Thompson said, via Jose M. Romero of the Arizona Republic. “Doesn’t really change much, you know what I mean, still got that chip on my shoulder, and still going to go out there and do what I do.”
Rams
Rams WR Cooper Kupp didn’t just earn the NFL’s receiving Triple Crown by leading the league in receptions, yards and touchdowns. He had one of the most prolific seasons of all time in 2021. It wouldn’t seem possible to improve on that, yet that’s Kupp’s goal for 2022 and he explains how.
“It’s real simple. The name of the game is being bigger, stronger, faster than you were the year before, and then all the stuff you can do cognitively to be able to slow the game down,” Kupp told NFL Network’s Rich Eisen on The Rich Eisen Show. “I feel like that’s the big thing that I built up over these last few months is being able to get to this place where the game is continuing to slow down and you’re able to play of the quieted mind. There’s little things, little details here and there within our offense that you want to improve on; angles off the line, the way you’re reading, understanding where guys fit on the second level, and then the run game, being able to take angles off the line of scrimmage to cut off guys appropriately; get a feel for how guys are going to play certain motions and runs based on actions from the front. All that little stuff that’s just the nuanced details you see in there as you play longer and longer you just get a better feel for.
“At the end of the day, just being a better football player than you were the year before. You get to that place and understand that it’s not about the production. It’s not about what the paper says at the end of the day, it’s what the film says. And I want to go look at film and say I was a better football player than I was in 2021.”
- PFN’s Aaron Wilson reports the Rams are preparing to play without WR Van Jefferson on Thursday against the Bills, as he’s still recovering from a second knee surgery on his injured knee.
- A source tells Wilson Jefferson experienced a setback in July, but the Rams still think he’s making progress and could be ready early on in the season.
- As for free agent WR Odell Beckham Jr, Wilson reports Los Angeles is “keeing the door open” for him to return and there’s “mutual interest” in a return.
Seahawks
- Seahawks QB Sean Mannion said he had the option to return to Minnesota’s practice squad, but wanted to take advantage of the “unique opportunity” to play closer to home: “Yeah, there was a couple different options and that was potentially one of them.” (Kevin Seifert)
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