A few Rams suffered injuries in Saturday’s loss to the 49ers, including two starters. Jalen Ramsey suffered a knee injury in the first quarter, but he played through it and didn’t miss a snap despite being listed as doubtful to return. Bobby Evans left briefly with a hip injury, while Darrell Henderson only played two snaps before hurting his ankle.
On Sunday, coach Sean McVay provided updates on those three players and the severity of their injuries.
Jalen got a knee banged up. We’re continuing to evaluate and see how – he ended up continuing to play through it, but we’re going to look at just seeing how he feels as the week progresses,” McVay said. “It’s his LCL. Just figuring out the specifics of, ‘What type of grade strain is it?’ Then I’ll be able to have some further updates for you as he’s talking with the doctors, I get a chance to talk to those guys and then we’ll have some further information for you guys later this week.”
Ramsey will get an MRI done on his knee and the Rams “want to be as smart as possible” with the injury. In other words, they’re likely to keep him out of Sunday’s season finale, which has no playoff implications after the Rams were eliminated from contention.
Henderson is going to have surgery on his ankle, which will likely land him on IR for the final week of the season.
“He ended up tweaking it on his first carry and then felt it on his second carry. He’s going to need to get that thing cleaned up, so we’re probably going to put him on IR,” McVay said.
The coach added that it’s a high ankle sprain and is unstable, “so he’ll need to get surgery.” McVay doesn’t expect him to be out very long, however.
“The specifics of that – it’s not something that’s too evasive,” he added. “It is something that will require to go in there and get it cleaned up. When he gets back – I don’t think it’ll be anything too long that will force him to miss a bunch of time.”
Evans is considered “day-to-day” after suffering a hip pointer, according to McVay, and “he should be OK.”