LOS ANGELES – Former Prairie View A&M wide receiver KhaDarel Hodge has signed with the Los Angeles Rams' practice squad, the team announced Sunday.
Hodge played in all four preseason games with the Rams, starting the final two contests. He caught eight passes for 100 yards and one touchdown.
Hodge opened the preseason catching an eight-yard scoring pass at Baltimore. In game two against Oakland, Hodge caught two passes for 57 yards, including a leaping 47-yard reception. In game three, Hodge made his first start against Houston, catching three passes for 22 yards. In Thursday's preseason finale at New Orleans, Hodge again started the game, catching one pass for seven yards on the opening drive.
Hodge was one of the Rams' final cuts on Saturday, as all teams had to designate a 53-player active roster. Sunday, teams began the process of signing up to 10 players to the practice squad.
As a member of the practice squad, Hodge will go through all of the standard preparation as players on the active roster, including all meetings, practices, etc. Practice squad players will primarily run opponents' plays in practice as part of the scout team to assist the active roster in preparation for upcoming games. He is not eligible to play in regular season games as a member of the practice squad, but can be signed to the active roster at any time by the Rams or any NFL team.
Last season for the Panthers, Hodge earned first-team All-SWAC honors, as well as Black College All-America accolades from both BOXTOROW and SBN/Power News Radio Network. Hodge was third in the SWAC in both receptions (48) and receiving yards (844), second in yards per catch (17.6) and first in touchdown receptions (12).
In his last seven games of 2017, he caught 39 passes for 746 yards and 11 touchdowns, posting three 100-yard receiving games and four multi-TD receiving games. Hodge broke Otis Taylor's 53-year old single-game receiving yards school record with 232 yards on eight receptions and three touchdowns vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Nov. 11. In his three-year career, Hodge caught 104 passes for 1,797 yards and 21 touchdowns.
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