ST. LOUIS (AP) -St. Louis Rams defensive end Anthony Hargrove missed his second straight day of practice on Friday after failing to show up for a meeting with coach Scott Linehan a day earlier, and will not play in Sunday's game at Arizona.
Rookie Victor Adeyanju, a fourth-round pick, will replace Hargrove in the lineup.
Linehan said he spoke briefly to Hargrove about 4 p.m. Thursday and told him to be at Rams Park by 6 p.m. to meet with him. He said the team has had no contact with Hargrove, a third-year player out of Georgia Tech, since then.
Linehan would not say if the team would suspend Hargrove, saying simply, ``He's just not playing. You can call it what you want.'' He did say that the third-year player would be fined.
Linehan said he had no idea what prompted Hargrove to go AWOL. The coach said Hargrove had ``general things'' just like other players, ``but nothing to this extent at all.''
Teammates remained baffled.
``Mind-boggling,'' defensive tacke La'Roi Glover said. ``We've just got to keep going.''
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