After his MRI exam taken a week ago came back displaying a torn posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, the Rams feared the worst. And they were right. After seeing a specialist in New York, Jerametrius Butler has opted for season-ending surgery. "Yeah, it's tough news," Butler said. "I decided to have surgery on Monday, 8 o'clock, so I'm out for the year. But I'll rebound from this. We'll go ahead and have surgery and get it corrected."

The St. Louis Rams released cornerback Dwight Anderson on Tuesday after Anderson after missing the team curfew by 45 minutes. "We released Dwight this morning," coach Mike Martz told reporters following the team's Tuesday morning workout in Earth City. "It's purely a situation that occurred here. Regretfully, I felt like I needed to do that with him. ... I hated that we had to do this, but I felt compelled to do it. And really, that's kind of all I want to say about it."