{"id":495032,"date":"2026-10-13T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495032\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:04:07","slug":"rams-cut-kicker-harrison-mevis-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495032\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams cut kicker Harrison Mevis \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rams are moving on from kicker Harrison Mevis a day after he missed two field-goal attempts in a 37-34 overtime loss to the Buffalo Bills<\/a>, according to reports.<\/p>\n

The Rams are also signing former New Orleans kicker Blake Grupe off the New York Jets’ practice squad. <\/p>\n

NFL Network<\/a> reported Mevis’ release and Grupe’s signing Tuesday morning. The Associated Press, citing a person with knowledge of the decision who spoke on condition of anonymity, also reported the transactions. <\/p>\n

The Rams’ special teams shakeup has not yet been publicly announced by the team.<\/p>\n

Mevis missed on kicks of 50 and 48 yards. The latter attempt, which came in overtime, was tipped by the Bills’ Greg Rousseau, spoiling the Rams’ bid for a walk-off win.<\/p>\n

Mevis had four missed field-goal attempts through five games — that’s the most in the NFL this season.<\/p>\n

Head coach Sean McVay said after the game that the placekicking unit \u201ccost us the game tonight.\u201d The Rams (2-3) have been plagued by poor special teams play since the start of last season.<\/p>\n

McVay vowed to make a thorough review of everything in that area of the game.<\/p>\n

The Rams signed Mevis midway through last season to replace Joshua Karty, and the bulky newcomer dubbed \u201cThe Thiccer Kicker\u201d made 12 of his 13 field-goal attempts in his first NFL season before going 6 for 6 in the playoffs. His only miss was costly, however, coming in a one-point overtime loss to eventual Super Bowl champion Seattle.<\/p>\n

Mevis is just 5 for 9 on field goals this season, although he has yet to miss an extra-point attempt in his career.<\/p>\n

Grupe is a four-year NFL veteran who spent his first 2 1\/2 seasons as the New Orleans Saints’ kicker before getting released last November during a rough season. He signed with the Indianapolis Colts and finished strong, making all 11 of his field-goal attempts.<\/p>\n

Grupe lost a training camp competition in Indianapolis to Spencer Shrader this summer.<\/p>\n

Grupe will be the Rams’ fifth kicker in four seasons since the departure of Matt Gay, the kicker for their Super Bowl-winning team in the 2021 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams are moving on from kicker Harrison Mevis a day after he missed two field-goal attempts in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,6446,752],"class_list":["post-495032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495032","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=495032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}