{"id":148302,"date":"2026-01-24T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148302\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:26:11","slug":"offensive-lineman-rob-havenstein-ruled-out-outside-linebacker-byron-young-questionable-but-expected-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148302\/","title":{"rendered":"Offensive lineman Rob Havenstein ruled out; outside linebacker Byron Young questionable but expected to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. \u2013 Although the Rams opened offensive lineman <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/rob-havenstein\/\" title=\"Rob Havenstein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Havenstein<\/a>&#8216;s practice window this week, Havenstein has been ruled out for Sunday&#8217;s NFC Championship Game against the Seahawks at Lumen Field in Seattle (3:30 p.m. PT, FOX).<\/p>\n<p>Havenstein&#8217;s 21-day window opened when he returned to practice Thursday, but head coach Sean McVay said the team &#8220;didn&#8217;t ever have any expectations of him playing this week.&#8221; Havenstein has made &#8220;great progress,&#8221; McVay said, &#8220;and in a lot of instances, it&#8217;s really to be able to say, all right, let&#8217;s get out on the field with your guys in a limited capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While outside linebacker <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therams.com\/team\/players-roster\/byron-young\/\" title=\"Byron Young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Byron Young<\/a> (knee) is listed as questionable, McVay said &#8220;our full expectation is that he&#8217;s playing.&#8221; Young was a limited participant in Friday&#8217;s practice, but McVay said that was because of the team taking a cautious approach with the edge rusher.<\/p>\n<p>For the Seahawks, starting left tackle Charles Cross (foot) carries no designation for Sunday, but second-string left tackle Josh Jones (knee\/ankle) is listed as questionable and third-string left tackle Amari Kight (knee) is listed as doubtful. Fullback Robbie Ouzts (neck) is listed as questionable, while linebacker Chazz Surratt (ankle) has been ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the final injury reports for both teams.<\/p>\n<p>*The Rams conducted a walkthrough on Wednesday, participation for that day is an estimation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. \u2013 Although the Rams opened offensive lineman Rob Havenstein&#8216;s practice window this week, Havenstein has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10840,55761,949,47887,73624,48,52,51,47,50,49,72206,18574,37498,11618],"class_list":["post-148302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-byron-young","tag-emmanuel-forbes","tag-football","tag-injury-report-cedars-sinai","tag-josaiah-stewart","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-rams-at-seattle-seahawks-2025-post-3","tag-playoffs","tag-quentin-lake","tag-rob-havenstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}