Rams Release Mevis After Overtime Loss to Bills

The Los Angeles Rams released kicker Harrison Mevis and signed Blake Grupe from the New York Jets practice squad after a 37-34 overtime loss to the Buffalo Bills. Mevis missed a 50-yard field goal and had a potential game-winning kick blocked by Greg Rousseau. Tyler Bass then won it for Buffalo with a 45-yard field goal after Josh Allen drove the Bills into range. Mevis was 5 of 9 on field goals this season. Grupe owns an 81.9% career field-goal rate and went 11-for-11 with Indianapolis last season. Rams coach Sean McVay took responsibility for a conservative third-down run that set up the blocked kick, saying he regretted not calling a play to keep the drive alive. A separate headline notes Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady admitting a clock-management error Buffalo got away with against the Rams; the record gives no further detail on that point. CONTESTED: No outlet-to-outlet factual disputes appear in the record. The open tension is responsibility for the loss setup—McVay’s self-blamed third-down call versus Mevis’s miss and blocked kick—while the roster move itself is reported as completed.