The Los Angeles Rams added Terrance Ferguson via the draft last year, and he showed some real flashes as a tight end as a rookie, but he also wasn\u2019t always the best tight end on the team. Will Ferguson take a big leap in 2026?<\/p>\n
Being a rookie in the NFL is hard, I\u2019ve heard being a rookie tight end is wildly hard because you are a lineman\/receiver, and that\u2019s a lot to learn in a playbook, and just the physical position is very challenging.<\/p>\n
Add in learning Sean McVay\u2019s complicated scheme, and Ferguson really did have a nice year, but I\u2019d guess he would say he could\u2019ve done more. Well, he can prove that in 2026.<\/p>\n
Will he? Great question. Please let us know what you think below! I am almost certain this topic will be discussed further as we get closer and closer to the season kicking off.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhile Ferguson isn\u2019t in any type of jeopardy, he could be on the verge of a breakout season. It\u2019s clear that Tyler Higbee is no longer the Rams\u2019 TE1, but I\u2019m not so sure Colby Parkinson is either. Parkinson made big plays in 2025, but would sometimes whiff on the easy ones, and a critical drop in the NFC Championship certainly did not help his case.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRob Havenstein, who joined Donald in retirement<\/a> this offseason, has some experience trying to block the all-world defensive lineman. He was asked on a podcast recently what it was like to go up against him in practice and he says \u201cliterally nobody blocked him.\u201d<\/p>\n He even said that if you did luck into stopping Donald one play, you knew the next was not going to go well.\u201c<\/p>\n \u201cMultiple key contributors from the amazing rookie class of 2023 are up for extensions. Of the group that includes punter Ethan Evans, quarterback Stetson Bennett, right tackle Warren McClendon, left guard Steve Avila, wide receiver Puka Nacue, edge rusher Byron Young, defensive end Desjuan Johnson, and defensive lineman Kobie Turner, who will general manager Les Snead pass up?<\/p>\n If you believe that all will return, you\u2019d better sit down. Even as Los Angeles projects to have over $96 million of available salary cap to spend, it may not be enough. The team will draft seven rookies, sign undrafted rookies, and potentially add additional veteran free agents. All of those actions will shrink that number rather quickly.\u201c<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t love the daft pick rule, considering how short lived most modern NFL GM\u2019s tenures are. The current expectation seems to be that if you don\u2019t have a winning within your first two seasons you\u2019re out, so mortgaging the far future would be extremely tempting for a GM and very detrimental to a team if the moves didn\u2019t translate to team success (the team could find themselves in a position where they need to hire a new GM, but what good candidate would want to sign on to a team with no foreseeable significant draft capital?).<\/p>\n I could really see some desperate GM trading away their three, four and five year-away 1sts in an all-in move (say for a previously good but aging QB), knowing that they\u2019re not actually taking on much risk at all because if it doesn\u2019t pan out then it likely won\u2019t be their problem anyway.\u201c -croaker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams added Terrance Ferguson via the draft last year, and he showed some real flashes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,4200,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-826587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-news","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116271262244188524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826587","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=826587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}