Rams Cut Harrison Mevis After OT Collapse, Sign Blake Grupe
Mevis missed a kick and had a game-winner blocked in OT against Buffalo. The 2-3 Rams are turning to Grupe, who went a perfect 11-of-11 with the Colts.
New Rams job is real, but wait for one clean game before streaming.
- Mevis cut after OT game-winner blocked vs Bills
- Mevis also missed FGs in Week 2 and Week 4
- Grupe went 11-of-11 on FGs with Colts late 2025
- Grupe: 112 PPR pts over 16 games in 2025
- Rams sit at 2-3 heading into the switch
The Rams have pulled the plug on Harrison Mevis. Los Angeles is releasing the kicker and signing Blake Grupe off the Jets' practice squad, per an NFL Network report — a move that comes straight off Monday night's overtime loss to Buffalo, where Mevis missed a field goal in regulation and then watched his 48-yard game-winner get blocked in OT.
This wasn't a one-week overreaction. Mevis also missed field goals against the Giants in Week 2 and the Eagles in Week 4, and he carried a bottom-tier profile into the week — our #200 overall, #28 among kickers, with just 29 PPR points across five games this season (2026). His last five outings ran 5.8 fantasy points below his own season average. The Rams are 2-3 and couldn't keep absorbing missed points.
Enter Grupe, who knows what it's like to lose a job over the leg. He got cut by the Saints after a rough stretch of misses in 2025, but he resurfaced with the Colts late in the year and was flawless — 11-of-11 on field goals and 10-of-10 on extra points across five games. That's the version Los Angeles is betting on.
Grupe's track record isn't tiny, either. Over a full 16-game 2025 season he put up 112 PPR points, and our model ranks him #15 among all players at the position's top spot (#1 at kicker) on that body of work. A leg that clean on a team desperate for reliability is a genuine opportunity, not a lottery ticket.
The Fantasy Fallout
The context matters here. The Rams have churned through kickers and special teams coordinators for years with little to show for it, so Grupe is walking into an operation that hasn't exactly been a stable environment for scoring. The offense around him is good enough to generate attempts — that's the draw — but trust has to be earned.
If you're streaming kickers, keep Grupe on your radar but don't rush him into your lineup this week. Watch his first game with the operation, confirm the snap-hold-kick timing looks clean, and if he converts, he's a fine plug-and-play given the Rams' scoring upside. As for Mevis, drop him everywhere — he's a free agent with no current job and no path to fantasy relevance until he lands somewhere new.
