• Halfback Pervis Atkins, whose AFL signing rights had been awarded to the Raiders after the short-lived Minneapolis/St. Paul franchise had drafted him as a redshirt out of New Mexico State, signed with the Rams

• The team signed a pair of draft choices, their first from the most recent draft: 25th-round pick, end Paul Yanke of Northwestern, and 27th-pick, end Clar Appledoorn of San Jose State