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Hawkins Placed on Injured List

By CHRIS DUFRESNE
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The Rams put defensive end Bill Hawkins on the injured reserve list Friday after arthroscopic surgery was performed to repair a partially torn ligament and a small fracture in his left knee.

Hawkins, the first-round pick from Miami (Fla.) who was starting at right defensive end in place of the injured Mike Piel, was hurt in the fourth quarter of last Monday night’s 30-27 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.

To replace Hawkins, the Rams activated rookie linebacker Mark Messner from the developmental squad. Messner is a sixth-round pick from Michigan.

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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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