The Los Angeles Rams have done well to find players either late in the draft or in the undrafted free agent pool and they seem to have done it again as they kept Shaun Dolac for the 2025 season.
Dolac signed with the Rams as an undrafted free agent and performed well enough to stick on the 53-man roster.
Los Angeles has historically not invested in the linebacker position because of their ability to find cheap talent and Dolac seems to be the latest example of that.
After cuts were finalized, Dolac reflected on making the final roster, via Stu Jackson of TheRams.com:
“Just a moment just to realize how much I’ve really accomplished in my life,” Dolac told theRams.com after Wednesday’s practice. “Being overlooked, being unvalued, being unappreciated at times, and just realizing, like, because I kept going and because the people who believed in me allowed me to continue to believe in myself as well, allowed me to just really appreciate everything I’ve gone through, and realizing that even through the bad stuff, I have to go through all that to learn from it. And I failed a lot, but without those failures, I wouldn’t be here, being able to learn from those. And like I said, there’s so many people who look up to me and so many people who just believe in me, and it’d be a discredit if I gave up somewhere along the road. And being able to just continue pushing forward and trusting in my faith and trusting in the belief that I’m going to be exactly where I need to be, that was really what I was thinking about (in that moment).”
Dolac also explained that he focused on moving forward despite any sort of obstacles he faced getting to the NFL:
“The people back home count on me, and all those kids that might be in a similar position as me, they could look up to me and say, ‘Shaun didn’t get this, didn’t get that, or whatnot, but he kept pushing forward. He kept working for it because he had a dream,’” Dolac said. “And God showed me a dream, and it was my duty to to fill that dream and continue pushing forward no matter what I go through. As long as you continue to put one step forward every single day and stack the days, everything’s going to work out in the end and in God’s favor.”
Dolac is a great training camp story and it’ll be exciting to see how much he contributes to winning this upcoming season.
Former Rams Willie Lampkin, Brennan Jackson, Derion Kendrick and Charles Woods claimed off waivers
The Rams had plenty of players deserving of a roster spot, but unfortunately they were forced to part ways with players like Willie Lampkin, Brennan Jackson, Derion Kendrick and Charles Woods. The Rams were in line to sign them back to their practice squad if they cleared waivers, but they were ultimately claimed by other teams.
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