Inside Rams Camp – Byron Young’s Sack Bet With D-Line, Relationship With Jared Verse & More

Southern California, where it’s always sunny and 75. Another perfect backdrop and a fantastic illustration of why it’s so great to be a Los Angeles Ram. Welcome to Inside Rams Camp presented by Unifi Financial Credit Union. Now on the heels of day three and perfectly now joining us the thirdyear outside linebacker we got agent zero Byron Young and of course alongside JV Long. I’m Cameron Irwin and Byron number three. How is this camp a little bit different than the previous two? uh you know just looking back and you know just being you know a rookie and stuff like that a sophomore but just learning from those days and those mistakes and those counts and you know just growing you know as a player but you know uh every day just taking one step at a time and that’s kind of what I learned from the last two years. My first question is how come my Pilates don’t seem to be working the same way that your Pilates are working? Am I doing it wrong? I I don’t know about I don’t know. I never seen you do. My wife’s got me on the reformer at least once a week and then I hear and I read that you’re doing I’m like, “Oh, thanks a lot, Byron.” I’m not I’m not going to lie to you. When I do it, it’s classical and um the teacher, she don’t you know, she don’t BS with me. Like everything we do like I’m sweat down like I’m about to die like I’m just ready to leave it. But you know, I that’s why I feel like I need to do it because like the work I put in and everything and how I feel afterwards, but during the session it’s it’s crazy. So, for real, how do you expect that to translate to the field on Sundays? Uh, honestly, with stability with my knees and everything and working with my back and just being able to bend a corner, we look, we work on a lot of stuff like that with hip rotation and stuff like that and hip flexibility. So, um, just being out there earlier this week and, you know, you know, doing my pass rush moves and being around the corner, I could see the how it was helping from Pilates. Over the past two years, you’ve proven durability, consistency. 34 games played, over 1,800 snaps, and seven plus sacks in the previous two years. What’s the next level of performance for you in year three? Uh, honestly, just just to keep growing, you know, just keep on getting better every year. Um, my goal every year is just to, you know, help my team the best way I can, you know, obviously to get the most sacks I can, but at the end of the day, just work in the scheme of the defense and the team, you know, and just try to get better, you know, grow from my mistakes and just help elevate the team. Now, there is a definite clear edge when you get to go up against Jared first. It’s one of the best ways for you guys to continue to raise the bar, even here at practice, but you guys even put stuff on the line. There’s some bets being made about sack total. So, what’s typically at stake when you’re going up against your competitive teammate? Oh, honestly, just me and Vers, we just compete every day. We just talk trash every day. And, um, he make me better, I make him better. Um, just to go who could get there first. Used to race to the quarterback. But, we definitely made a bet this year with uh me, Versus, and Fisk. We we kind of made it last year, but we didn’t. Nobody shook on it, but it was like whoever got the least whoever got the most sacks don’t have to shave their beard. So that that was a bet last year that nobody shook on. Um so this year we actually shook on it. We shook on that in OTAA. So we shook on it. It’s on it’s on camera. So at the end of the season, if I got the most sacks, I don’t have to shave my beard. Everybody else do. So that’s that’s a bet. When’s the last time you were clean shaving? I think last camp I did. Last camp I think last camp I definitely did. You know, you throw Kobe in that mix and there’s four guys that I believe all have doubledigit sack potential in 2025. Sometimes they’ll talk about a hoops team and they’ll wonder like, are there enough shots to go around or like on an offense here? Are there enough targets, enough footballs? Are there enough pass rush opportunities for the four of you and then some on the Rams defensive front? Oh, absolutely. There’s a lot of ops out there for everybody. Like, so it just like for me how I see it, if it if it’s verse off, it still could be your off at the same time. So, you just got to know how to play and steer the defense. you got to win somebody else off. You got to find a way to win. So that’s kind of what my coach is telling me this year cuz last year I kind of was thinking like, okay, is that person OB, that’s his OB. You know, there’s no way I could get that. But at the same time, if it’s his OB, you could end up getting a garbage sack. You never know. So you got to always rush and, you know, just be ready to collect. All sacks are good sacks. No such thing as a garbage sack am. No, for sure. No, that’s true. That’s true. BY, so many have come to know and love your story. It’s one of perseverance, dedication, determination. I mean, you name it. It could be a Hollywood blockbuster. So, in that vein, if you were to self-title your story to this point, what would it be? Oh, easy adversity. Just um I love telling. I love talking about it. U just thinking back about it and um everything I’ve been through and um all the hard days, all the good days, you know, all the days I made almost wanted to quit or didn’t, you know, it it always remind me where I came from. It keeps me humble. So, uh adversity, you know, off rip, I’m an underdog. I got it on my back. But adversity all the way, you know, um just being able to go through that and I think that’s what that’s why we connect so well with the guys on the D line like Vers Fist and Kobe. Like we all been through something. We all been in some type of adversity. So it kind of making us bond together and we we know each other’s story. So that’s what I love about it. You talk about where you’re from. I’m curious what was an average day like an average Saturday on Glenn Loop in Georgetown, South Carolina. Looked like a really fun place to live being the youngest of 13 siblings. a average day. Well, my dad, it was unique. Honestly, my dad, uh, his mindset was that, you know, if you was a guy in the house, you always had to be outside. You always had to be doing something outside. Um, construction like these days, like how everybody in the house and stuff, we never like we woke up like at 9:00 a.m. We always outside doing some type of work, doing some type of, you know, u construction. He was a carpenter, so Oh, cool. But, you know, uh, it taught me a lot. You know, it taught me a lot of discipline and responsibility and just how to, you know, build things and how to clean the yard, how to take out the trash, how to clean, uh, take how to change the Oreo the oil. But, um, just learning from him, you know, it taught me a lot. So, that that would be like a normal Saturday. Like, you’ll see me outside doing something really like playing outside, playing basketball, but I’m always outside in the sun. I looked it up on a map and I was going, man, I just want to do circles around the loop on a bike somewhere. It’s really a loop. Like it’s like you could like I got all my cousins over there over there. But like for sure coincidentally I got my first taste of the Low Country this summer. I spent Fourth of July in the greater Charleston area. Oh Charleston. Okay. Yeah. Charleston. Great. Obviously amazing, you know, scenery and food. Um they treat fireworks differently than we do here in Los Angeles and in California. Like you can get a lot of trouble here if you are in possession of fireworks. You can get them anywhere you want there. I I stay away from that um for sure. But definitely in the country it’s free. Like that and that’s what I like about it too. is definitely free. Like if you you’re going to hear a gunshot probably is normal like somebody hunting, but just like it it’s pretty normal over there with fireworks, but I definitely tend to stay away from those. You have quite the affinity for caring for those in your community. It seems like you’ve done some community work in Georgetown at an elementary school just over this past offseason. What can you tell us about that experience? Oh yeah, definitely. Uh Pleasant Hill Elementary School. That’s the school I went to um when I was younger. Um I always go there every year, a few times a year. I do uh uh career day there. Um but this past Saturday I did a back to school drive um when I gave away 300 backpacks filled with school supplies. Uh I partnered with Dollar General and they uh was so generous and they donated all the school supplies and they also donated $50,000 to the school and um you know God worked in mysterious ways and it’s something that the school really needed and I didn’t even know that but just hearing that and watching the emotions from the principal after you know he was presenting the check uh it it warmed my heart and just seeing like you know the good you could do for people and you never know. So, you know, when I seen that reaction, that’s that’s why I do it, you know, just just for little reactions like that, like honestly, I never knew, you know, things that the school was going through and just seeing how happy he was in the kids and being around the community and being able to do that for my community, you know, something I’m continue to do every year. But that’s why I do it, you know, just for the kids, you know, being a resource for them, being someone they can look up to literally. So, that’s awesome. That’s fantastic. I hate to be the guy who then turns around and asks a football related question after a sentimental moment like that, but like what is Puna Ford going to mean to this defense and specifically the opportunity that you edge defenders have to get more of those known passing situations? Oh, definitely knock out the run. I watched him play and everything he do and even in the pass in the pass down like he he can move but in the rundown like I see him all active and everything he doing and just shutting down a run. That’s what I’m looking forward to. shutting down a run, getting us in past situations, you know, um even running games with him and stuff. Oh my goodness. He’s about to crash the net. You know it. Yeah, he everywhere. He’s everywhere. I love him. I love him. You know, he was already hearing about the beard and what was going to take place. I’m You know what? My money’s on you. Just don’t tell him I said that. I appreciate that. Yeah. Does it ever get to be too much with Jared? Are you ever like, I need a break from this guy? I’m not gonna he he know like Jared is weird where he knows like where you kind of doing too much but sometimes he don’t care but like if you feel like you having a bad day you going through something one thing he always do and I appreciate him about he’ll come to you and say you know whatever it is you know I’m praying for you like regardless what it is like sometimes I have hard days and he could see it he’ll just come to you and say that like he don’t he don’t know what it is but that’s one thing I learned about Jared that he probably like one only people that I met that does stuff like that you know he a caring person but no definitely you’re going him 24/7 like even if he having a bad day got a headache I’m like bro how do you like constantly constantly keep going but you know that he wouldn’t be Jared without that so I like that you’re supposed to what like listen twice as much as you talk cuz you got two ears I don’t I don’t think Jared probably could possibly like listen twice as much as he talks but he but your point is he still does sense and he’s still he quick with it though you say something he’s so quick with it like he it’s like he had everything written down his head so if you if you say something to him he got a com a comeback Just like that. Like I’m saying if you say somebody’s hair I said, “Bro, how do you just come up with it? You just be sitting there raining on the Has your trash talk elevated in that sense having to go up against him constantly?” Uh, a little bit. Oh yeah, for sure. Actually, I’m like yesterday I was kind of getting I was getting out of my character yesterday talking trash to the quarterbacks. I’m just like I never do this like that. Jared got me. He got me. But I love it though. It kind of get me out of my character and making me, you know, uh, more open and stuff. So I I love it. In the same vein, I got to ask, if you had to sack one guy on this team, who would you pick on this team? On your team. Wait, like anybody can go play quarterback. Anybody can go play. Anybody can go play quarterback and you can go and get him. Jared because Jared because like I want to know what he going to say afterwards. Like I I got to hear like he’s still he’s still going to be talking trash. But I love it though. But definitely it’ll be Jared cuz he feel like he play every position already. He feel like he play tight end, quarterback. Like he just say put him back there. So okay, bet put you back there. Let me sack you. see how that goes. Awesome. Well, by thanks so much for joining us on this edition of Inside Rams Camp presented by Unifi Financial Credit Union. We can’t wait to see what you put out on the field this year. Go have a career year. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. Thanks for joining us.

Los Angeles Rams outside linebacker Byron Young joins Camryn Irwin and J.B. Long for an episode of Inside Rams Camp. On the show, Byron talks about his sack bet with teammates, offseason community service work in his hometown, and how fellow outside linebacker Jared Verse’s trash-talk is rubbing off on him.

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