The Los Angeles Rams recently placed Bobby Brown III on injured reserve because of a knee injury he suffered in Week 5 versus the Philadelphia Eagles. Given that Brown is going to miss an extended period, Raheem Morris indicated that rookie Kobie Turner and Jonah Williams will see more snaps for the Rams.
“Tough, man. I think Bobby Brown’s playing really well, playing at a high level for us, but we’ve been fortunate to have Kobie go out there and really play some stuff for us and Jonah, obviously those guys can play some of the reps for us,” Morris said. “Obviously, we’re able to split some of those Kobie and Bobby reps based on base and some of the bigger structures and we’re able to get Kobie rest to get him in some of the small structures and also spell him in. But we’ll definitely rely heavier on Kobie and some of those younger guys that we have, (Larrell) ‘Murch’ (Murchison) is playing at a high level for us. We’ve had Jonah out there playing really well for us so we’ll get some snaps from those guys a little bit extra, be able to do it that way.”
Turner has already seen a decent number of snaps this season, primarily from the interior on obvious passing situations. The rookie defensive lineman has logged 13 combined tackles and one sack while playing on 55 percent of the defensive snaps for the Rams.
Seeing that Turner doesn’t have the size of Brown at nose tackle, Morris wants to split snaps between Turner and Williams. Williams has seen most of his snaps at defensive end, but he’s more of a run stopper than a pass rusher along the defensive front.
Morris also mentioned Larrell Murchison as a player the Rams could deploy more to prevent Turner and Williams from being locked into the nose tackle role. The Rams are allowing 4.3 yards per attempt (11th-most in the NFL) this season, and that could get worse with a lack of size at nose tackle until Brown returns.
Even though the Rams could address the position at a later point, they currently want to replace Brown in-house with a mixture of Turner, Williams, and others.
