The Los Angeles Rams made a shocking move this week when they signed kicker Joshua Karty to their practice squad. Karty, the team's kicker at the start of the 2025 season, lost his job to Harrison Mevis after missing five field goal attempts and three extra points.
Mevis lost his job this season due to the same issues, with Blake Grupe (tore his ACL in his first game) and Brandon McManus taking over since. With Karty back in the facility, and his "knuckleball" kickoff style being pointed at as a possible solution to the team's long-standing kick coverage issues, some wonder if the Rams will entertain the idea of having two kickers on their game-day roster.
Head coach Sean McVay would not close the door on the idea.
“We'll work through all different
things," said McVay. "It all depends. When you have 48 bodies and the different guys that are filling in, you have to really ask yourself, 'Okay, does that really make sense? Does it fit?' There are a lot of layers to it so I wouldn't be ready to answer that question yet.”
If McVay and the Rams do exercise that option, Karty serves as an instant solution to a problem Los Angeles has yet to fix. The only question is whose spot on the 48-man game-day roster would Karty take?
This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Sean McVay open to having 2 kickers active on game day
