The Los Angeles Rams have a bounty of quality players on their roster heading into 2025.
With great players on offense and defense, L.A. is poised to compete once more for the NFC West crown as well as a nice seen in the NFC playoffs.
So, with the 2025 season a few months away, Pro Football Focus’ Trevor Sikkema identified “the top three players who matter most for each team heading into the new season.” For the Rams, the trio was relatively obvious: Quarterback Matthew Stafford, wide receiver Puka Nacua and edge rusher Jared Verse.
“Nacua led the NFL with a 93.0 receiving grade and posted the highest non-quarterback WAR on the team at 0.56,” Sikkema wrote. “Stafford saw his WAR dip from 3.38 in 2023 to 1.81 in 2024, but he remains one of the league’s most clutch quarterbacks. Verse burst onto the scene as a rookie, generating an 85.3 pass-rush grade and 89 total pressures.”
Those three represent the foundational core for the Rams in 2025. While Stafford may not be around the team much longer, he is still the lynchpin of the roster. Nacua and Verse, meanwhile, are the youthful building blocks of the team that should be franchise players for a long time.
The only other players who likely could have been considered here were receiver Davante Adams, left tackle Alaric Jackson, edge rusher Byron Young or defensive tackle Kobie Turner. Adams is too new to the team, Jackson isn’t at the peak of his position and Young and Turner haven’t been as dominant as Verse has already.
Therefore, this list is the most accurate representative of the Rams in 2025. It will be interesting to see who would replace Stafford, though, if and when he leaves the team.