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Atlanta Falcons running back Todd Gurley was once considered one of the best running backs in the NFL. However, after suffering a left knee injury in 2018, Gurley hasn’t looked like the same player as he was before. During a recent interview with ESPN, former Los Angeles Rams center John Sullivan made a bold claim […]

The Los Angeles Rams have been in the news a few times recently. Not always for the greatest reasons. Of course, there was the unveiling of their new logo. And that went extremely sideways. People were hilariously quick to mock them for that. However, that wasn’t the truly bad publicity that they received. That came […]

Atlanta Falcons running back Todd Gurley, who signed a one-year, $5.5 million contract after being released by the Los Angeles Rams, will be wearing the No. 21. That jersey number is the same number Deion Sanders wore for the Falcons during the first five seasons of his Hall of Fame career. During a radio interview […]

New Atlanta Falcons running back Todd Gurley has heard the same thing since Super Bowl 53: he does not look fully healthy. Gurley was one of the top running backs in the NFL in 2017 and 2018. But reports surfaced he was dealing with a knee injury leading up that Super Bowl against the New […]

Upon signing with the Atlanta Falcons, Todd Gurley has decided to wear No. 21 — the same number that Deion Sanders wore. Despite Gurley likely choosing the number to pay homage to Sanders, the All-Pro running back claims Sanders is upset at him for wearing the same number. “Prime was hatin’ on me. He told […]

Todd Gurley’s departure from the Los Angeles Rams was quick and vicious, and everyone is still trying to make sense of Gurley settling in with the Atlanta Falcons. However, he has to clear the air yet again after is been revealed that his physical with his new team is virtually nonexistent. Gary Klein of The […]

New Atlanta Falcons running back Todd Gurley has opened up about proving his worth this upcoming season. In a conference call on Friday, Gurley expressed that now is the time to build his legacy by performing at as high a level as possible: “Man, I just have fun, man … I’ve been doing this for […]

During a press conference on Friday, running back Todd Gurley expressed that his former team, the Los Angeles Rams, still owes him money. “I still need my money. That’s what I’m waiting on. . . . It’s all fun and games. But I do need my money,” Gurley said Friday, via D. Orlando Ledbetter of […]

Once upon a time, Todd Gurley was one of the most explosive feature backs in the NFL. Gurley was named First Team All-Pro in both 2017 and 2018, going for over 2,000 yards from scrimmage in 2017 and leading the league in total touchdowns in each of those two seasons. However, injuries began to hamper […]

The Atlanta Falcons made a big move in acquiring Todd Gurley. The former Los Angeles Rams running back is as talented a football player as he is controversial off the gridiron, so there are questions about his fit. However, head coach Dan Quinn believes that he’s more than a great fit with the team. On […]

Make that two former Los Angeles Rams taking to Twitter to voice their complaints against the team about not receiving money they are owed. Veteran linebacker Clay Matthews, who was released by the Rams earlier in the month after just one season with the team, quote tweeted Gurley’s tweet about money owed by the LA […]

Todd Gurley’s tenure with the Los Angeles Rams did not exactly end on the best terms. The Rams cut Gurley last month, right before the four-year, $60 million contract extension he signed in 2018 was set to kick in. Luckily for Gurley, $45 million of that deal was guaranteed, so he will be getting a […]

The Atlanta Falcons signed running back Todd Gurley last month after he was cut by the Los Angeles Rams, knowing full well that he has a knee issue. However, Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff is not concerned. According to William McFadden of the Falcons’ website: “We looked closely at it. We have language in our […]

With Todd Gurley no longer on the team, the Los Angeles Rams plan to use a running back by committee approach, according to Greg Beach of the Associated Press. Les Snead on the Rams' running philosophy after Todd Gurley: "What we do want to be is a team that utilizes more than one workhorse moving […]

Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay no longer has running back Todd Gurley at his disposal. The NFC West franchise released the veteran earlier this offseason. With Gurley since joining the Atlanta Falcons, the Rams will now look ahead to the future, which will certainly be a bit different as McVay will begin to […]

With the Coronavirus outbreak, NFL teams had some unique situations including trades not being officially processed. Via Adam Schefter of ESPN. Similarly, the DeAndre Hopkins-David Johnson trade still has not become official due to lack of physicals. So the trade is agreed to…but not processed. https://t.co/iSwM9RsyFq — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 3, 2020 The DeAndre […]

New Atlanta Falcons running back Todd Gurley took April Fool’s Day off this year, but it didn’t stop him from laughing at Denver Broncos star linebacker Von Miller’s own social-media shenanigans. Miller, 31, an eight-time Pro Bowl stud on defense, shared a graphic on Instagram on the first of April telling his followers he had […]

If you’re excited about Todd Gurley signing with the Atlanta Falcons, you have Falcons star wide receiver Julio Jones partially to thank. On an episode of Gurley’s former teammate Chris Long’s Green Light Podcast, the 25-year-old running back explained that soon after he was cut by the Los Angeles Rams on March 19, Jones showed […]

The Los Angeles Rams made headlines with their decision to release running back Todd Gurley this offseason. It seems the new Atlanta Falcons star is still coning to grips with how his departure went down. Gurley himself was admittedly surprised when the Rams opted to simply part ways and make him a free agent. Via […]

NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Davis doesn’t believe Atlanta Falcons running back Todd Gurley will return to his dominant form. In 2018, Gurley suffered a knee injury and hasn’t looked the same since. Davis told TMZ Sports he a similar knee issue in 1999 and it caused him to lose a permanent step in his […]

The Atlanta Falcons signed running back Todd Gurley to a one year deal, but they won’t know for a while if his knee is actually “right.” The Los Angeles Rams tried to find a trade partner for Gurley, but the Falcons waited until he was released to sign him to a $6 million deal. With […]

Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and Atlanta Falcons running back Todd Gurley are no longer teammates. With the Rams recently releasing the veteran running back, Gurley then wasted absolutely no time in signing a deal with his hometown team in the Falcons. However, Gurley did not leave Los Angeles peacefully as the former Georgia […]

After Todd Gurley posted career lows in rushing yards and rushing attempts per game this past season, the Los Angeles Rams decided to cut bait with the three-time Pro Bowler last week. It’s hard to believe that this Rams’ offense could ever get to the point where they could tread water without Gurley. In his two […]

The Atlanta Falcons brought in running back Todd Gurley on a one-year deal last week following Gurley’s jarring (but yet not too surprising) release from the Los Angeles Rams. A couple of years ago, cutting Gurley would have been unthinkable. In 2018, many considered Gurley to be the best halfback in the NFL, and he […]

Todd Gurley has had to answer an endless amount of questions pertaining to his knee injury and it doesn’t appear that those questions will cease after joining the Atlanta Falcons. Ever since his final season in college at Georgia, there have been concerns surrounding Gurley’s knee after tearing his ACL. Nevertheless, he became a first-round […]

The Los Angeles Rams chose to release Todd Gurley earlier this week and some of his teammates were confused by the move. Just a day after the move was made, Andrew Whitworth spoke about Los Angeles releasing Gurley: “I think it’s tough,” Whitworth said via SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Sports Radio. “Obviously, Todd’s dealt with some […]

Former Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley was an unfortunate victim of the business side of the NFL this offseason. Gurley, a two-time First-Team All-Pro selection, was released by LA on Thursday for mostly financial reasons. However, Gurley seemed to get the last word in, as he is still owed a large amount of […]

Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young is excited about former Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley joining him in Atlanta on the Falcons. The Falcons signed Gurley on Friday, just a day after the All-Pro got waived by the Rams: Yessirr back like I never left. https://t.co/7ZmUB7IEJ6 — Todd Gurley II (@TG3II) March 20, […]

One day, you’re on top of the world. The next, you’re scrounging for whatever scraps someone throws to you. That is essentially what happened to Todd Gurley, the former superstar running back who was released by the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday and had to settle for a one-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons on […]

On Thursday, the Los Angeles Rams released running back Todd Gurley. Now, if you told anyone back in 2018 that the Rams would ultimately be releasing Gurley in March 2020, they would have looked at you like you had three heads. But here we are, and it happened. Gurley did not remain unemployed for long, […]

Running back Todd Gurley is a free agent for the first time in his NFL career. And right off the bat, defensive end Dante Fowler — who recently inked a three-year, $48 million deal with the Atlanta Falcons — has made an effort in recruiting his former teammate. Vai Twitter, Fowler started luring Gurley in, […]

Alert the Atlanta Falcons of this: Todd Gurley is a free agent. That’s right, the Los Angeles Rams made the bold move to release their star running back on Thursday afternoon. It was a move that shocked many fans across the country and has made quite a few other fans hope that their team will […]

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The Los Angeles Rams are divorcing star running back Todd Gurley in order to avoid paying a $10.5 million bonus that would have triggered Thursday. Gurley will don another uniform next season, but the Rams made sure to thank him for his contributions to the organization. Forever a part of our history. Thank you, @TG3II. […]

The Los Angeles Rams stirred some controversy among their fans on Thursday by releasing Todd Gurley. Not long after the move was made, Sean McVay spoke out on the Rams releasing Gurley. “I would like to thank Todd for his many contributions to the Rams, on and off the field, since I have been here,” Rams coach Sean […]

The free-agent market is adding another superstar into the mix with the Los Angeles Rams releasing Todd Gurley on Thursday, and he may have hinted at where he’d want to play years ago. Following his release, an old tweet of Gurley’s surfaced of him cheering for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. While the tweet was nine […]

Little more than 20 months after signing him to what was then the highest-paid deal for any running back in the NFL, the Los Angeles Rams have released Todd Gurley. The Rams–who had been shopping Gurley since the beginning of the legal tampering period on Monday–released him in order to avoid paying his $10.5 million […]

The Los Angeles Rams made a surprising decision to move on from Todd Gurley. After trying to trade him for weeks, the team made a brutally tough decision to release him. Now, Gurley is set to hit the open free agency market. Todd Gurley will immediately become one of the most intriguing players on the […]

Todd Gurley has been one of the NFL’s elite running backs for years with the Los Angeles Rams. Unfortunately, he suffered a knee injury during the 2018 NFL season that forced him to take a lesser role down the stretch of the season and into the playoffs. He didn’t receive much of a workload the […]