With the 2025 NFL Draft and undrafted free agent class all but settled, it's time to turn to examining the current and future of the Los Angeles Rams' roster. While the Rams shored up a few positions, they ignored several other areas that were identified as needs entering the draft.
The Rams are undoubtedly a playoff-caliber team, but there are still some question marks remaining throughout the roster.
The heir to Matthew Stafford?
It was a hot rumor that the Rams were interested in bringing in a quarterback in the draft, even though the team never seemed to support those rumors. Sean McVay said a week before the draft that he hadn't done a ton of work on the quarterback class, and it turns out he was telling the truth.
The Rams had plenty of opportunities to select a quarterback at multiple points in the draft, whether it was Shedeur Sanders, Will Howard, Kyle McCord, or Tyler Shough. Instead, they passed up multiple rumored targets in favor of strengthening the rest of the roster. While this was a smart call in a weak quarterback class, it does leave this question hanging over the Rams for another season.
Where is the offensive tackle depth?
I fully expected the Rams to select an offensive tackle at some point of the 2025 NFL Draft, as their depth there behind Alaric Jackson and Rob Havenstein is virtually nonexistent. They did not, leaving Warren McClendon Jr. and AJ Arcuri as the only tackles behind them. McClendon was disastrous in spot duties last season, allowing five sacks and 14 pressures in just five games as a starter, while Arcuri wasn't much better, allowing seven pressures in one game last season in Week 1.
With Havenstein's age and durability concerns mounting, it's stunning that the only thing the Rams did here in the offseason was add undrafted free agent Trey Wedig into this room.
What's going on at cornerback?
Cornerback was the position most frequently mocked to the Rams leading up to the 2025 NFL Draft. Yet, they did not add a single player to this room at all in the entire draft or undrafted free agent class (as of the time of writing this). This unit isn't exactly brimming with talent and is fairly thin. The Rams struggled defending the pass for much of last season, so for them not to add anything into the secondary at all was startling.
Could something be brewing in this room? Perhaps.
Is this Kyren Williams' last year in Los Angeles?
The Rams and general manager Les Snead stated back in March that they were willing to work with Kyren Williams on an extension. However, Snead has only extended one running back in his entire tenure running the Rams, and that was Todd Gurley. As productive as Kyren Williams is, he isn't Todd Gurley, and that's evidenced by the Rams being "far apart" in their current numbers with Williams and his representation.
The team drafted Blake Corum last season, who, by their own admission was drafted because of how similar he was to Williams, and traded up to draft Jarquez Hunter in the 2025 draft. It certainly feels like the beginning of the end for his time in Los Angeles, especially if Corum takes that next step in his development.
