St. Louis Rams Free Agency: Rams Land Pro Bowl Center Scott Wells from Green Bay

The St. Louis Rams have agreed to terms with Pro Bowl center Scott Wells of the Green Bay Packers, according to the following tweet from Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

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Rams agree to terms with former Green Bay center Scott Wells.

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Wells, 6'2 and 300, will fill the void left in the middle of the St. Louis offensive line following the release of center Jason Brown.  

The 31 year old from Spring Hill, Tennessee has been a full-time starter in Green Bay for the last six seasons and will almost assuredly take over the starting center role for the Rams. 

Wells is known as a tough player who excels at making snap adjustments and in pass protection, according to this report from profootballweekly.com.  The Rams, as many of you know, struggled to protect Sam Bradford in 2011.

Wells will help to instill leadership while instantly upgrading St. Louis' offensive line.

For the take from Mike Sando of ESPN on the aforementioned signing of Wells and his expected impact on the Rams, please look here.  

Most often, it is moves like these that go the furthest to improve a team through the free-agency period. In 1999, the Rams signed free agent right guard Adam Timmerman, also of the Packers.  

Timmerman went on to be one of the better guards in St. Louis history and one of the key players who kept the engine running for the Rams during the greatest show on turf era.

Hopefully, Wells will have a similar tenure as Timmerman in St. Louis, both in terms of individual and team success.

Shane Gray covers the St. Louis Rams year-round. You are encouraged to check out the rest of his work here and to follow him on Twitter.