{"id":215338,"date":"2025-03-10T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=215338"},"modified":"2025-03-10T14:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:20:21","slug":"breaking-11-sack-veteran-signs-contract-with-los-angeles-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/03\/10\/breaking-11-sack-veteran-signs-contract-with-los-angeles-rams\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: 11-Sack Veteran Signs Contract With Los Angeles Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-year veteran defensive tackle Poona Ford signed a new contract with the Los Angeles Rams. Ford, a former undrafted free agent, spent the 2024 season with the Los Angeles Chargers but has also played for the Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:mbr4badgf6yu56mquzackzew\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lk263vgqss2m\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreigdqq2pld4nkddc4qxwqpfhjtvz4ciuy7gbs7l7lqp6wrabdfl2k4\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Fowler: DT Poona Ford to sign a 3-year, just under $30M deal with the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL NEWS (<a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:mbr4badgf6yu56mquzackzew?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@fantasynflnews.bsky.social<\/a>) <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:mbr4badgf6yu56mquzackzew\/post\/3lk263vgqss2m?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Poona Ford, Los Angeles Rams, Agree to Contract<\/h2>\n<p>After a slow 2023, Poona Ford bounced back with a strong season in 2024. Signing a one-year deal with the Chargers, the veteran started all 17 games while recording one interception, three sacks, 39 tackles, eight tackles-for-loss, and nine quarterback hits. With his help, the team earned a Wild Card spot in the first year of the Jim Harbaugh Era but went <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401671878\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-and-done<\/a> against C.J. Stroud and the Houston Texans.<\/p>\n<p>Poona Ford originally entered the league as an undrafted free agent following the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">NFL Draft<\/a>. Signing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/seahawks\" target=\"_self\">Seattle Seahawks<\/a>, the Texas product made the Week 1 53-man roster but spent most of his rookie season in a reserve role. Appearing in 11 games, Ford finished his inaugural campaign with 21 tackles, three tackles-for-loss, two quarterback hits, and no sacks.<\/p>\n<p>Ford parlayed his promising rookie season into a full-time starting job in 2019. Appearing in 15 games while making 14 starts, Ford recorded 0.5 sacks, 32 tackles, five tackles-for-loss, and three quarterback hits while on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Poona Ford maintained his starting job and signed a two-year contract extension in 2021. He played out the remainder of his deal and finished his time in Seattle with 7.5 sacks, 181 tackles, 28 tackles-for-loss, and 27 quarterback hits.<\/p>\n<p>Following his five years in Seattle, Ford joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/bills\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Bills<\/a> on a one-year deal. Unfortunately, the veteran struggled in the new environment, appearing in eight games without making a start while recording one sack, nine tackles, one tackle-for-loss, and three quarterback hits.<\/p>\n<p>Since signing his rookie contract, Poona Ford has appeared in 101 games while making 81 starts. When on the field, the Texas product recorded 11.5 sacks, 229 tackles, 37 tackles-for-loss, and 39 quarterback hits.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Thomas Shea &#8211; Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-year veteran defensive tackle Poona Ford has signed a new contract after a bounce-back season with the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":216893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,18,34],"tags":[7642,7473,246,32612],"class_list":["post-215338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-chargers","category-rams","tag-chargers-featured","tag-los-angeles-rams-news","tag-nfl-news","tag-poona-ford"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221774,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215338\/revisions\/221774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}