Four Rams starters down, and left-leaning sports media isn't there
The Los Angeles Rams lost Davante Adams for 6-10 weeks to a ruptured hamstring, then lost kicker Blake Grupe to a torn ACL, defensive tackle Poona Ford to a ruptured triceps, and Kobie Turner to a 4-6 week absence — all confirmed Monday after a home loss to the Arizona Cardinals. The injury wave is real and specific. What's striking is that ESPN, The Athletic, Sports Illustrated, and similar outlets are entirely absent from the coverage, leaving the story to center and right-leaning sports outlets.
Los Angeles Rams hit with wave of injuries including Davante Adams and Myles Garrett
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What happened
On Sunday, October 19, 2026, the Los Angeles Rams lost at home to the Arizona Cardinals. The loss itself was damaging enough. What followed Monday made it worse. Wide receiver Davante Adams, acquired this offseason as a marquee addition, ruptured his hamstring on the team's final drive and is out 6-10 weeks, per head coach Sean McVay. Kicker Blake Grupe tore his ACL making a tackle on a kickoff and was placed on injured reserve. Defensive tackles Poona Ford (ruptured triceps) and Kobie Turner (4-6 weeks) also received IR-track diagnoses. Separately, defensive end Myles Garrett will not play in Week 7 against the Las Vegas Raiders. The Rams are now working out veteran free-agent kickers Brandon McManus and Matt Prater as emergency replacements. Eight outlets have the story. Left-leaning sports outlets have none of it.
CBS Sports gave the most complete injury accounting in one place
CBS Sports published two pieces: one on Adams specifically, one on Grupe. The Adams article is the only one in this set that lists all four injuries in a single paragraph — Adams (6-10 weeks, hamstring), Grupe (ACL, IR), Ford (ruptured triceps), Turner (4-6 weeks) — making it the most useful single read for anyone trying to understand the full scope. The Grupe piece adds the specific mechanism: he was injured making a tackle on a kickoff, a detail no other outlet included.
Fox News led with Adams and named McVay; NY Post covered the depth chart damage
Fox News/OutKick went straight to the Adams timeline — 6-10 weeks, ruptured hamstring, Sean McVay as the named source — and framed it as an addition to existing injury woes, which is accurate. The New York Post ran two separate pieces: one on the Myles Garrett news (he won't play Week 7 against the Raiders), and one specifically on Ford and Turner heading to IR. Between the two Post pieces, the defensive line losses get more column space than anywhere else in the coverage set.
Yahoo Sports covered the standings math, not the injury list
Yahoo Sports published two pieces, neither of which is primarily an injury report. One tracks the Rams' Super Bowl odds post-loss and notes Adams's injury as context. The other is about the Seattle Seahawks benefiting from the Rams losing games. Both are legitimate angles, but a reader going to Yahoo for injury specifics would find the Garrett news missing entirely and the Ford and Turner diagnoses unmentioned.
What one side told you that the other didn't
Left-leaning sports outlets published nothing. Zero pieces.
ESPN, The Athletic, Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report — none appear in this coverage set. That's not a framing choice; it's an absence. The Rams are a major market team with a star-studded roster absorbing five significant injuries in 24 hours, and the outlets that dominate NFL weekday traffic have nothing indexed here. Readers who default to those outlets Monday morning got no Adams timeline, no Garrett update, no Grupe mechanism, no Ford or Turner diagnoses.
Grupe's ACL came from making a tackle. One outlet said so.
Blake Grupe tore his ACL not on a kick attempt but while making a tackle on a kickoff return. CBS Sports is the only outlet in this set that reported the specific mechanism. Every other piece that mentions Grupe describes it generically as a knee injury or places him on IR without explanation. The distinction matters: a kicker tearing his ACL on a tackle is a special teams scheme question, not just bad luck.
Myles Garrett's Week 7 status appeared in only one outlet.
The New York Post is the only outlet here that reported Garrett will not play against the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 7. Given that Garrett was acquired this offseason as the Rams' premier pass rusher, his absence from a specific upcoming game is the most immediately actionable piece of injury news in the set. CBS Sports listed him in its broader injury context but did not confirm his Week 7 status. Yahoo Sports did not mention him at all.
PFT's kicker workout story is the only forward-looking piece.
ProFootballTalk is the only outlet that moved past the injury diagnoses to report what the Rams are actually doing about them: bringing in Brandon McManus and Matt Prater for a Tuesday kicker workout. Every other outlet treated the injuries as the end of the story. The McManus/Prater detail is the one piece of information that tells you where the roster goes next, and it ran in exactly one place.
What to watch
The Rams' Week 7 game against the Las Vegas Raiders kicks off Sunday, October 25. If Myles Garrett is officially ruled out on the Wednesday injury report, expect the outlets currently absent from this story to pick it up through the Raiders preview angle rather than the Rams injury angle — framing the same absence as a Raiders opportunity rather than a Rams crisis.
This kind of gap — where one side reports a fact and the other doesn’t mention it — shows up in about 40% of major stories.