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Rams Sign Stams, Only Two Top Picks Left

By CHRIS DUFRESNE
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With no lower-round draft choices left to practice on after Wednesday’s signing of second-round pick Frank Stams, the Rams must turn thoughts and pocketbooks to first-rounders Bill Hawkins and Cleveland Gary

Stams, an outside linebacker from Notre Dame and the highest of the Rams’ three second-round choices, agreed to a four-year deal and reported to Wednesday’s practice. The Rams have signed 12 of their 14 draft choices and now zero in on the men from Miami, Hawkins and Gary. There appears little chance the first-round picks will make it in time for the team’s imminent trip to Tokyo.

“Hawkins and Gary seem to be on the back burner,” Coach John Robinson said. “They are in my mind.”

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Details of Stams’ contract were not available.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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