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Knee Surgery for Rams’ Strickland

By CHRIS DUFRESNE
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Second-year Ram linebacker Fred Strickland, who missed Saturday’s game in Tokyo against the San Francisco 49ers with a knee injury, will undergo arthroscopic surgery this week and will be out four to six weeks. Robinson said Strickland could be ready for the regular-season opener against Atlanta Sept. 10.

Strickland had taken over as a starting inside linebacker this season with Larry Kelm. Richard Brown filled in for Strickland and played well against the 49ers.

The news wasn’t as bad for rookie cornerback Darryl Henley, who suffered an ankle sprain against the 49ers. He’s expected to miss two weeks.

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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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