PRO FOOTBALL DAILY REPORT : RAMS : Cox, Perry Reach Contract Terms

Backup tackle Robert Cox signed with the Rams just in time to beat Gerald Perry into camp by one day.

Perry, the recently-acquired tackle who was released from Arapahoe (Denver) County Jail Saturday, is scheduled to arrive in Irvine and report to training camp today, Ram Coach John Robinson said.

Perry signed a two-year agreement with Ram executive Tank Younger after he was released, then flew home to Louisiana to spend some time with his family.

Younger told Robinson that Perry is in “fabulous” shape. Robinson isn’t planning for Perry to practice today, but said Perry and Cox should be ready to play in the Rams’ exhibition-season opener in Jacksonville, Fla., against the Atlanta Falcons.

Perry will work at left tackle and left guard, and Cox will work at left tackle and right tackle, both shoring up the Rams’ injury- and holdout- wracked offensive line.

The signing of Cox reduces the Rams’ list of unsigned players to five: No. 1 pick Todd Lyght, fullback Buford McGee, left tackle Irv Pankey, center Tom Newberry and linebacker Fred Strickland. None appears close to agreement.

The Rams have held recent discussions with Bob Woolf, Lyght’s agent, but the two sides are still believed to be more than $350,000 a year apart and no proposals have been exchanged in the past week.

The team will forgo two-a-days in preparation for its exhibition opener. It is scheduled to practice lightly in shorts and helmets in the morning today and Tuesday before the afternoon full-contact work, and will not practice Wednesday and Thursday mornings before flying to Florida on Friday. . . . The two-a-days will resume after the team returns from Florida.