announced<\/a> the deal Thursday with Lake, an Orange County native and a sixth-round pick out of UCLA in 2022. The team simultaneously designated Lake to return from injured reserve after a six-game absence with an elbow injury.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s something that you dream of,\u201d Lake said after practice. \u201cI think the coolest thing about it was seeing the reaction from my teammates. When you have people yelling and screaming, congratulating you, coming up saying, \u2018Well deserved,\u2019 it makes you feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n
The son of former Pittsburgh Steelers star Carnell Lake seized a prominent role on the Rams’ defence in 2023, and he currently serves as a team captain and defensive signal-caller. Depending on the situation, Lake can be seen lining up as a slot cornerback, a run defender in the box or a patrolling safety at the back of the defence.<\/p>\n
In perhaps the greatest measure of the Rams\u2019 esteem for Lake, he has become the first defensive draft pick to get a contract extension with the Rams since\u00a0retired superstar Aaron Donald, who was drafted in 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad everything worked out,\u201d Lake said. “It\u2019s been in the works a long time, but I didn\u2019t want that to be any type of distraction for me going on the field and playing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lake has 160 tackles, four sacks, one fumble recovery and one interception over four seasons in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Lake still doesn’t expect to play this Sunday when the Rams (11-5) host the Arizona Cardinals (3-13), but the team is optimistic he will return for the post-season. He returned to practice to get an extra week of conditioning and acclimation to the Rams’ current defensive setup.<\/p>\n
Lake had surgery on his dislocated elbow in November, and his steadying presence has been missed by the Rams’ defence, which had been one of the NFL’s best this season. Los Angeles has ranked just 28th in scoring defence, 29th in yards allowed per play and 26th in big plays allowed over the past five weeks.<\/p>\n
The Rams are headed to the playoffs for the third straight season despite losing back-to-back games for the first time this year. Lake has 23 tackles in three career playoff games.<\/p>\n
Lake is the second key player on the Rams’ defence to sign a three-year extension during the season. Linebacker Nate Landman, the free-agent signee who has seized a leadership role with a standout effort in his first season with Los Angeles, was rewarded with\u00a0a $22.5-million deal in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Los Angeles Rams have agreed to a three-year contract extension with Quentin Lake, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-382855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}