The Los Angeles Rams will be without starting cornerback Jaylen Watson for the rest of the year after placing him on season-ending IR with a shoulder injury on Wednesday. The free agent signing who was added to fix one of the Rams’ biggest defensive weaknesses will have surgery on said shoulder and miss the rest of 2026. Watson was injured in Week 8’s win over the L.A. Chargers, looking as though he was unable to even lift his arm after going down.
In a season full of bad news for the Rams, the hits keep coming.
The Rams signed Watson to a three-year, $51 million contract in the offseason and paired him with former Chiefs teammate Trent McDuffie to fix L.