{"id":743882,"date":"2026-02-11T02:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/743882\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T02:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:54:16","slug":"rams-ot-rob-havenstein-sb-lvi-champion-and-longtime-starter-retires-after-11-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/743882\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams OT Rob Havenstein, SB LVI champion and longtime starter, retires after 11 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though Havenstein’s career concludes without a Pro Bowl season on his resume, he was a crucial cog in Rams success under head coach Sean McVay. He was a member of seven playoff teams, four NFC West champions, started in two Super Bowls and was a 2021 Super Bowl LVI champion.<\/p>\n

All told, Havenstein’s career saw him play in 148 games — all starts — over his 11 seasons.<\/p>\n

He was a member of Pro Football Focus’ Top 101 squad on three occasions — 2018 (83.3 overall grade), 2020 (80.6), 2021 (83.4).<\/p>\n

Warren McClendon<\/a> filled in at right tackle for Havenstein and the 2023 NFL Draft fifth-rounder performed well. Whether McClendon is the permanent replacement remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Havenstein was a second-round pick in 2015, playing for the final season that the Rams were in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Though injuries prevented him from playing in the playoffs this year, he remained a constant with the team.<\/p>\n

“I got a lot of love for this building, for this team, for that room,” Havenstein said, via Rams.com’s Stu Jackson on Jan. 26<\/a>. “When I was young, guys were helping me out, and so it’s something I could return the favor and just do what I can. I just wanted to win, whether that was me on the field or smacking Puka on the sidelines, or handing out smelling salts. Whatever I could do to help, that’s what I wanted to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Though Havenstein’s career concludes without a Pro Bowl season on his resume, he was a crucial cog in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1227,7,58,88,6,609,6821],"class_list":{"0":"post-743882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-no-minute","14":"tag-rob-havenstein"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116049743969303491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743882","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=743882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}