Colby Parkinson Camp Update — August 31: Survived Cut Day
2026 NFL Season · Monday, Aug 31
Parkinson is on the Rams' initial fifty-three, one of five tight ends kept, while the two tight ends who left the building were Mark Redman by trade and Dan Villari by waiver. Survival past Sunday was exactly the data point last week's episode said would count in his favor.
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Colby Parkinson is on the Rams' initial 53. The roster the team announced Sunday keeps all five tight ends — Tyler Higbee, Parkinson, Terrance Ferguson, Davis Allen and Max Klare, per Mykell Mathieu at The Sporting Tribune — and the room's departures came from outside that group: Mark Redman traded to Green Bay, Dan Villari waived, per Cameron DaSilva at Rams Wire.
That is the whole of the week's Parkinson news, and it happens to be exactly the item this episode promised to check. Last week's watch line spelled it out: a release or trade ends this story, and survival past Sunday is a real data point in his favor. He survived — and the squeeze did not force the choice we expected, because the Rams carried five tight ends rather than picking among them. The finale offered no usage read to go with it; the regular starters were rested Thursday, per Adam Wells at Bleacher Report, and no recap charted the tight end room.
Back in June we framed Parkinson's eight-touchdown 2025 season, by our numbers, as an outlier scoring rate inside a five-deep room, with an expiring contract that made him a named cut-or-trade candidate. The cut-or-trade half of that frame is now resolved in his favor; the contract got no word this window, and his role remains as uncharted as it has been all summer — no snap counts, no target data, no reporting on where he sits in the rotation. He is a Ram with a season in front of him, which in his particular story is the headline. Next look comes when there is real usage to report.
_Data via nflverse._
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