Carson Tinker is finally going to get to snap for the Los Angeles Rams. On Tuesday, the NFL team announced it had signed the former Alabama long snapper after placing Alex Ward on injured reserve.

Ward sustained a stinger in the Rams’ 37-31 overtime loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, and, on IR, the Los Angeles long snapper will have to miss at least four games – the number remaining on the Rams’ regular-season schedule.

Tinker was on Los Angeles’ roster in 2021, when the Rams won Super Bowl LVI against the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20.

Tinker served as security for Matthew Orzech but was never needed in a game. The Rams released Tinker from their practice squad six times from Dec. 28, 2021, through Feb. 1, 2022, and used the open roster spot to add a position player for practice. But before each game, Los Angeles re-signed Tinker to have him available in case Orzech got hurt.

Last season, Tinker served as the long snapper for the Seattle Seahawks.

This year, Tinker joined the Jacksonville Jaguars on Aug. 14 after long snapper Ross Matiscik sustained a shoulder injury in a preseason game. Jacksonville released Tinker after he played in one preseason game.

After Tinker served as the long snapper on the Crimson Tide’s 2011 and 2012 BCS national-championship teams, he handled all the Jaguars’ long-snapping duties from 2013 through 2016. He missed the 2017 season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in training camp. Tinker returned to the Jaguars in 2018, but five games into the campaign, he suffered another knee injury and missed the remainder of the season.

Jacksonville released Tinker with one season remaining on a four-year, $3.65 million contract extension, and he was out of football in 2019 and on the New York Giants’ practice squad in 2020.

In 2021, Tinker snapped for the Buccaneers from the second through the ninth games while Tampa Bay’s regular long snapper, Zach Triner, recovered from an injury sustained in the season-opening contest.

Tinker then made a one-game stop with the Las Vegas Raiders, playing on Dec. 5 with regular long snapper Trent Sieg on reserve/COVID-19 for the week.

Tinker finished the 2021 season with the Rams.

Last season, Tinker joined Seattle five days before the season-opening contest with regular long snapper Tyler Ott out with a shoulder injury and played in all 17 games.

The Rams play the Washington Commanders at 3:05 p.m. CST Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.