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Rams rookie linebacker Jared Verse (8) celebrates one of his sacks this season. (David Dermer / Associated Press)
Jared Verse was not always this way.
Not in high school in Pennsylvania. Not at his first college stop at Albany.
After transferring to Florida State, however, something clicked.
Verse became vocal on the field.
Really vocal.
“That’s when it started like me actually kind of getting in people’s faces,” Verse said, “Like really letting them know.
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“Like, getting loud.”
Verse, the No. 19 pick in the NFL draft, is only seven games into his NFL career. Still, the 6-foot 4-inch, 260-pound edge rusher is making a case for being considered one of the league’s top young pass rushers — and one of the most animated game-day conversationalists.
Teammates and Minnesota Vikings players got an earful when Verse was mic’d up for an Oct. 24 game at SoFi Stadium.
Verse recorded 1½ sacks in the 30-20 victory that improved the Rams record to 3-4 going into Sunday’s game against the Seattle Seahawks.
But it was Verse’s unvarnished exchanges with Vikings players that stood out.
A sampling:
“Oh yeah, oh yeah. It’s a bad day for y’all.”
“Oh yeah, I’m in your head! I’m in his head!”
“Get up, boy. I’m not done, I’m not done with you!”
Rams rookie linebacker Jared Verse (8) has put the onus on himself this season. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
“He’s a bully on the field, and he gets going,” Rams coach Sean McVay said, noting that former Rams stars Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey brought a similar edge.
“[Donald] just might not have talked as loud, but the way he would stare a hole through people they knew. Ramsey was like that.
“Sometimes those best defensive players, they have some stuff to them that you’re like, ‘Oh man, we need that.’ You need that edge, that energy, that swagger and Jared Verse definitely has that.”
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Author : LA Times
Publish date : 2024-11-01 10:00:36
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