RAMS PROMOTE BYRON CUNNINGHAM TO DIRECTOR OF REHABILITATION/ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINER

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Rams promoted Byron Cunningham to director of rehabilitation/assistant athletic trainer, the team announced
today.

“I’m honored to have this opportunity to continue my work with the Los Angeles Rams,” Cunningham said. “I’ve learned a great deal from my peers
and the individual athletes and look forward to being challenged to implement unique rehabilitative practices and treatments.

In this role, Cunningham is responsible for the care, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of player injuries in coordination with the head athletic
trainer. During his tenure with the Rams, Cunningham has overseen several critical player rehabilitation programs, including former WR Brian Quick
who suffered a potentially career-ending shoulder injury in 2014 and returned to the field in 2015.

“Byron’s been cool since I got into the league, always helping me recover,” said Rams RB Todd Gurley. “He does a good job making sure all of us
get the treatment we need to be successful on the field.”

Cunningham is in his ninth season with the Rams, highlighted by the 2015 season when the staff earned the NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year
award from Professional Football Athletics Trainers Society (PFATS). His previous work boasts stints with four NFL teams and NFL Europe’s Rhein
Fire. Cunningham’s professional athletic training career started in 2001 at Auburn University.

“Byron has consistently shown his dedication to creating innovative and specialized treatments for our players in the preventative realm and injury
treatment,” said Reggie Scott, Rams Director of Sports Medicine. “He is an integral part of the culture and systematic implementation that we set
forward as an athletic training department.”

Prior to entering the league, Cunningham served as head athletic trainer for football at the University of Illinois from 2007-2009, a position he was
promoted to after working as the assistant athletic trainer for football at the university from 2005-07. From 2004-05, Cunningham was the head
athletic trainer at Bishop McNamara Catholic High School in Kankakee, Ill. Before working at McNamara High, he worked with NFL Europe’s Rhein
Fire as an assistant athletic trainer in 2004.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, Cunningham completed his bachelor’s degree in physical therapy at Florida A&M University in 1998, and a master’s in
sports medicine from the United States Sports Academy in 2002. In 2010, Cunningham received the FAMU School of Allied Health Sciences
Distinguished Alumni award.

He is married to his wife, Lakesha, and they have one daughter, Ashley, and one son, Aaron. …His parents, Carl Cunningham Sr. and Audrey
Cunningham.

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