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Report: Rams to release former Mizzou WR Bud Sasser

Published Jun. 4, 2015 4:30 p.m. ET

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Due to a pre-existing heart condition, former Missouri Tiger receiver Bud Sasser was cut on Thursday by the hometown St. Louis Rams, according to ESPN. Sasser earned All-SEC First Team honors a season ago after leading the team in receptions (70), receiving yards (935) and touchdowns (10). 

The Rams selected Sasser in the sixth round of the last May's NFL Draft. Sasser was not invited to the pre-draft NFL Combine in Indianapolis, which may have contributed to the Rams not having knowledge of his heart condition prior to the draft. 

Team doctors initially became aware of his condition during May's rookie orientation. 

Sasser had expressed his disappointment with the NFL's doctors discovery during the orientation: "It's a little frustrating, just have to wait for this whole physical thing to go through and that's all I can do is just wait," Sasser said then. "That's for them, their whole staff to be looking at that. I have to play the waiting game. I'm just waiting on the physical at this point."

After getting multiple opinions on his condition, no doctor would clear the receiver to play football. 

(h/t ESPN)

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