{"id":262830,"date":"2025-08-05T04:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/262830\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:40:11","slug":"nfl-top-100-rams-olb-jared-verse-is-no-53-will-face-arizona-cardinals-twice-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/262830\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Top 100: Rams OLB Jared Verse is No. 53, will face Arizona Cardinals twice in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the NFL had its fifth week of revealing players in the “NFL Top 100,” giving us players 51-60. On Thurday, they revealed a player at No. 53 who will face the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Rams<\/a> pass rusher Jared Verse debuts in the top 100 coming at No. 53.<\/p>\n

Verse was the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year and was selected to the Pro Bowl. He only had 4.5 sacks but added 11 tackles for loss and 18 quarterback hits. He was credited with 77 quarterback pressures in the regular season by PFF.<\/p>\n

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Cardinals tight end Trey McBride called Verse “a great player, a guy you could see grow the confidence every single week.”<\/p>\n

“He’s going to a force to reckon with for years to come.”<\/p>\n

The Cardinals will face Verse and the Rams twice in the final six weeks of the season, at home in Week 14 and on the road in Week 18 to close out the regular season.<\/p>\n

He is going to be a problem for years if he keeps it up.<\/p>\n

‘NFL Top 100’ opponents for Cardinals in 2025<\/p>\n

Of the 50 players in the top 100 revealed as of the end of last week, the Cardinals face the following:<\/p>\n

OLB Jared Verse, LA Rams (No. 53<\/p>\n

QB Matthew Stafford, LA Rams (No. 59)<\/p>\n

RB Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers (No. 73)<\/p>\n

WR Tee Higgins, Cincinnati Bengals (No. 77)<\/p>\n

DE Rashan Gary, Green Bay Packers (No. 80)<\/p>\n

RB Kyren Williams, LA\u00a0Rams<\/a>\u00a0(No. 85)<\/p>\n

DL Leonard Williams, Seattle Seahawks (No. 99)<\/p>\n

Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: Arizona Cardinals to face player No. 53 in ‘NFL Top 100’ twice in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, the NFL had its fifth week of revealing players in the “NFL Top 100,” giving us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[390,254,4127,1327,256,1370,257,4130,7,345,253,125,3417,2664,3608,1724,1829,4076,9195,21543,1014,58,2444,2611,32,6,34254,424,3996,1878,252,261,250,2978,6957,6042,9752],"class_list":{"0":"post-262830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-bijan-robinson","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","13":"tag-dak-prescott","14":"tag-dallas-cowboys","15":"tag-drake-london","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-green-bay-packers","18":"tag-houston-texans","19":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","20":"tag-jared-verse","21":"tag-jessie-bates-iii","22":"tag-joe-mixon","23":"tag-jordan-love","24":"tag-josh-hines-allen","25":"tag-kyren-williams","26":"tag-lavonte-david","27":"tag-leonard-williams","28":"tag-los-angeles","29":"tag-los-angeles-rams","30":"tag-losangeles","31":"tag-losangelesrams","32":"tag-matthew-stafford","33":"tag-nfl","34":"tag-nfl-top-100","35":"tag-rams","36":"tag-rashan-gary","37":"tag-sam-darnold","38":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","39":"tag-seattle-seahawks","40":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","41":"tag-tee-higgins","42":"tag-the-cardinals","43":"tag-trey-mcbride","44":"tag-vita-vea"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}