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Rams quietly eye a WR...from the WFL

What the heck is the WFL? What in the world are the Rams doing scouting a player in WFL?

To answer the first question, you need to recall a bit of history. The time: the mid-70s. The war in Vietnam was drawing to a close, the sixties were long passed and a national malaise was setting in. The World Football League was a short lived experiment to compete with the NFL...it didn't. Maybe it was that whole national malaise thing.

Anyway, it's baaaaaack. This time as an (another) indoor football league, drawing on the limitless amount of football players not quite good enough to make the NFL...or those beset with enough personal problems to ward off scouts from the Raiders. Former Oklahoma State WR Prentiss Elliott might fit both those descriptions, but the last one really stands out. After a productive freshman year at OSU, Elliott got thrown off the team in 2005. Trouble found him again last year when he was allegedly involved in a shooting incident in Tulsa while trying to rejuvenate his career with Tulsa's Arena League team. He received three years probation. 

Now, he's reformed and working on a comeback with the Oklahoma Thunder WFL team, where he was recently scouted by the Rams and the Patriots. Elliott is 6'1" 205 lbs, according to the listing at the Thunder's web page. We'll see where this goes. More than anything, it's evidence that the Rams are still eyeing talent for their WR ranks.

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What a wacky group of WRs we’re putting together. I guess if he’s beyond his off-field issues and the brass sees something in him they want to bring to the team this year, then this can’t hurt.

Your uncle molests collies.

by 3k on Jun 16, 2009 6:54 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

low hanging fruit!

wrong team, oops.

godfather of futureredbirds.net

by erik on Jun 16, 2009 7:05 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

yeah

don’t tell the Cardinals that the guy can pitch too

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by VanRam on Jun 16, 2009 9:41 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

?

We are looking at this guy and not Plaxico or Vick?

by NICKSC on Jun 16, 2009 9:28 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

well

he’d be cheaper, and not a “everyone knows about what he’s done” type of reputation

"Score some damn runs, or the baby pandas die"

by sergey606 on Jun 16, 2009 10:48 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Why would press coverage make a difference?

If we won’t sign Plaxico because of his bad character, and it sounds like this guy has done similar things. Why would people not knowing about his bad character make a difference. The pillar is character not character unless no one knows what you did.

by JoeyBombs on Jun 16, 2009 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

oh

i didnt think we were going to budge on “the four pillars” which to me is impossible.

by NICKSC on Jun 16, 2009 11:50 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

If not Marshall, then no way Elliott

Trouble found him…? No it didn’t, he found trouble. Is it just me or does it seem that WR’s and DB’s tend to have more criminlas than other positions? Maybe RB’s can compete.

I’m not as strict on the character thing as the new Rams regime seems to be, I’ve had friends and players I know be in trouble…I myself have had a minor misunderstanding or two….um, very minor, heh……but these guys running the Rams aren’t going to play that game this year.

Lived in LA during the Rams and Raiders days. Now based in NorCal, I am still a die hard Rams fan and Raiders season ticket holder.

by CoachConnors on Jun 16, 2009 4:36 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

WFL STAR

Again I say no to convicts. He may be reformed but once a convict your always a convict.
Keep St. Louis clean, I am sure the Raiders will like him, there a halfway house for thugs and criminals.

by California Mobile CPR on Jun 18, 2009 7:17 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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