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The Los Angeles Rams have 86 players on the roster as of today. Can you name all of them? You will be able to after you read this.
Although ranking players is rather impossible, abstract, and unnecessary, the reason I did it for the current Rams roster is not about assigning values or playing favorites. It’s so that every Rams fans who finds this article will have a better idea of what names to watch in training camp, decide for themselves who they want to root for to make the 53-man roster and practice squad, and come up with their own opinions on who should be ranked and how high or low they should fall.
Nobody can rank Rams players except for Sean McVay.
Well, I did it anyway.
Undrafted free agents can, and often do, make the final 53-man roster. Most of them will end up on the practice squad, if they survive training camp at all. Being ranked at the bottom of this list is not meant to imply that the player has no shot at the roster or practice squad.
The ranking is merely based on a lack of information relative to the other 70 guys on the roster right now. Some of these players are 100% more important and relevant than guys ranked ahead of them. They’re victims of circumstance: They have never had a training camp before and they went undrafted. By this time next year, several of these players could prove to be hugely important.
This is merely an initial list of undrafted free agents who are currently on the roster and there’s nowhere to go but up; G Chad Lindberg got a $15k guarantee, second-highest in the class, and has already been waived. However, I’ve still ranked the top-3 UDFAs by their guarantee, led by TE Dan Villari.
So this the first 16 players on the list.
Tell me in the comments.
I’m slotting longsnapper Joe Cardona at 70 and yes, he will make the roster. It just goes to prove to you: This list is NOT based on likelihood of making the roster.
Longsnappers are largely interchangeable. It’s good that L.A. has Cardona instead of the problems they had at longsnapper last year though.
The rest are UDFAs going into year 2. It doesn’t mean Tanner Ingle is “worse” than someone ranked...
