Dominique Easley, Now With Rams, Putting Messy Patriots Breakup Behind Him

Dominique Easley’s career in New England came to an inauspicious and premature end this spring when the Patriots released him just two years after drafting him in the first round.

Easley ended each of his first two NFL seasons on injured reserve, but it was widely reported that off-field issues, not injuries, led to his release, with one anonymous teammate even calling the defensive end a “locker room cancer.”

Now with the Los Angeles Rams, Easley said he hopes to prove he does not deserve that undesirable label.

“It’s really just, hopefully, that the Rams get to see what a great person and a great, hard worker I am and, really, just a great person,” the 25-year-old recently said in an interview with Sirius XM NFL Radio.

Easley declined to address the aforementioned reports of his poor standing in New England’s locker room, dismissing them as “rumors” started by people who do not truly know him.

“There’s been, obviously, stuff said about me,” he said. “We don’t know where it came from — obviously, the person doesn’t want to come out and say it, either. As far as I know, it’s all rumors until that person comes out and says that was from them and they can prove that they actually know who I am or have been around me long enough to know who I am and how I am as a person.”

Easley played in 22 games over his two seasons with the Patriots, recording 25 tackles and three sacks.

h/t ProFootballTalk

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