{"id":375300,"date":"2025-09-17T14:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/375300\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:59:10","slug":"rams-olb-jared-verse-continues-to-be-an-elite-run-stopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/375300\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams OLB Jared Verse continues to be an elite run-stopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Verse has yet to record a sack through two games of his sophomore season. This is a bit of a surprise for the reigning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, but he is just one piece of a rock-solid <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/los-angeles-rams\/343\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Rams;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> defensive front.<\/p>\n<p>Verse may not have the sack numbers yet, but he is still delivering in the running game. The second-year edge rusher has the second-most run stop-wins and the second-highest run-stop win rate at his position. His nine stops and 56% win rate rank only behind DeMarcus Lawrence of the Seattle Seahawks, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/46138675\/2025-nfl-win-rates-top-teams-players-rankings-pass-run-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This was one of Verse&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/espns-ben-solak-explains-underrated-143036972.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:most underrated traits;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most underrated traits<\/a> following his sublime rookie season, which was overshadowed by his insane pressure numbers. But it&#8217;s been a big boon for a Rams defense that overall suffered in the run-stopping department in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>So, while the rest of the unit gets sacks, Verse will continue to play a role in thwarting the run. He&#8217;ll get his first big test in Week 3 against the Philadelphia Eagles, who ran all over the Rams in the NFC Divisional Round a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/theramswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/rams\/2025\/09\/17\/rams-olb-jared-verse-continues-to-be-an-elite-run-stopper\/86198495007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rams OLB Jared Verse continues to be an elite run-stopper;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rams OLB Jared Verse continues to be an elite run-stopper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Verse has yet to record a sack through two games of his sophomore season. This is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[5735,7,3417,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424,8345,261,11028],"class_list":{"0":"post-375300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-demarcus-lawrence","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jared-verse","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangelesrams","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rams","17":"tag-rookie-season","18":"tag-seattle-seahawks","19":"tag-sophomore-season"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115220240897727034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375300","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=375300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}