The NFL and Los Angeles Rams are set to announce their 2026 schedule at 4:30pm PT on Thursday, May 14th. We already know who the Rams will be facing, it’s just a matter of when. There are already a few variables that we know, such as: Los Angeles will travel the second-most miles this season; covering 34,837 miles – with the San Francisco covering the most at 38,105 miles. We also know that these two teams will face each other in Melbourne, Australia in Week 1. Below is an updated tracker of the Rams schedule based on reports and suspicions...

After going through NFC regression candidates, several rebound candidates could give the Los Angeles Rams issues in 2026. Between the Lions’ potential return to playoff contention and the Eagles aiming to bounce back after a rough end to the year, there are a few teams that might make some noise ahead of the new season.

Read more: Bears, Seahawks among NFC regression candidates in 2026

Here are four NFC teams that could make some noise during the 2026 season.

Detroit Lions

The Lions had an up-and-down season following the departures of Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn. That landed...

The NFL schedule release is coming this Thursday night, but it’s already known that the Los Angeles Rams will play the San Francisco 49ers Week 1 in Melbourne, Australia. Despite L.A. taking Simpson with their 13th overall pick in the latest NFL Draft, a player who may help the team one day as opposed to grabbing a player who can help now, the Rams are still favored to win in Week 1 by 2.5 points over their NFC West rival.

Of course, so much can change, but for now, the Rams are favored in that specific Week 1 matchup, so...

Charles Young, a USC grad in 1973 who played for the Los Angeles Rams and appeared in Super Bowl XIV with the team, died this week. He was 75.

Young had a decorated and successful career at both the college and pro levels. In 1972, Young won a national championship with the Trojans and was named a unanimous All-American that season. That catapulted Young into being the sixth overall pick of the 1973 draft by the Philadelphia Eagles, where he was a Pro Bowler and an All-Pro in his first three seasons.

Although those were Young’s most successful seasons statistically,...

There’s never a dull moment in the NFL as the league has made everyone facet of the game something for fans to follow, whether it’s the season itself, post season, free agency/trades, the NFL Draft, training camp, and of course, the schedule release.

Yes, we know who the Rams are playing, but when? Yes, we do have some leaks, but until the schedule is official, we do not know.

It’s an exciting time for NFL fans who can properly prepare for which games they want to see in their own town and, which games they may want to travel for....

Kamren Kinchens is getting lost in the shuffle amid the Los Angeles Rams’ defensive additions this offseason. While the secondary should be significantly better with Trent McDuffie and Jaylen Watson in the fold, Kinchens is one of football’s best young safeties.

According to Pro Football Focus (PFF) grading and metrics, Kinchens finished as the eighth-highest graded player at his position in 2025. In terms of coverage grade alone, Kinchens rises to fifth behind Antonio Johnson, Kyle Hamilton, Bryan Cook, and Jalen Pitre.

Ranking immediately after Kinchens in defensive grade is his running mate at safety, Kamren Curl. Curl was PFFs...

Harrison Mevis is a good kicker, which is all the Los Angeles Rams were looking for when the team decided to release former sixth round pick Joshua Karty midway through the season. When a team’s kicking situation gets so bad that they feel compelled to fire the kicker in November, the bar isn’t set very high.

Going into 2026 with Mevis as the only kicker on the roster, it’s clear that Sean McVay has clearly not changed his mind to believing that L.A. needs to raise the bar on special teams, potentially dooming the Rams to more of the same...

The Los Angeles Rams’ path to NFC supremacy is opening up quite nicely, as several teams are expected to regress in 2026. From the Bears’ unsustainable late-game magic to the Seahawks’ loss of key personnel in free agency, things are setting up for the Rams to take control of the conference, assuming L.A. doesn’t join them in the regression department.

Here are four regression candidates in the NFC ahead of the 2026 season.

Chicago Bears

The Bears were doubted all last season, en route to the NFC North crown and a near trip to Seattle for the NFC Championship...

No entity or organization in our society can make something mundane feel like a massive deal quite like the NFL can. In related news, the full 2026 schedule will be revealed on Thursday.

We already have a few hints about what the slate will look like for the Los Angeles Rams this year. Notably, we already know they’ll open the season on Thursday, Sept. 10 against the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia in a game exclusively on Netflix.

We’ll soon find out when each game will be played and on which network they’ll be shown in 2026. That got...

Whether intentional, unintentional or something in between, when Sean McVay appeared grumpy during the Los Angeles Rams press conference on the same night L.A. selected Ty Simpson as the 13th overall pick, it was McVay’s appearance and reaction that became the story as much as the selection.

Was McVay upset about the Simpson pick? Was McVay downplaying his excitement to assure Matthew Stafford from afar that he was/is still L.A.’s quarterback? What events occurred that led to McVay presenting a different body language than we are used to seeing from the generally giddy and optimistic head coach?

[According to Chris...

A lot can change, and strength of schedule isn’t always the best indicator of how a team’s NFL season will go, but in May, and as it stands, the Los Angeles Rams look to have a tough schedule.

Starting with L.A. residing in the NFC West, plus they’ll play some other top teams in the NFC and the AFC West, it’s a tough schedule.

Of course, injuries can happen, and teams expected to be good aren’t always that way, so we’ll see.

It’s an exciting week; I am pumped to see the schedule come out (I usually enjoy the videos...

It’s not breaking news when you hear that a major publication thinks the Los Angeles Rams will be very good again in 2026. After all, they were arguably the best team in the NFL for much of the 2025 season, and more than a few fans and analysts considered the NFC Championship Game to be last season’s “true” Super Bowl.

Can the sequel be at least as good as the original? At least one metric used at The Athletic believes so.

Writer Austin Mock used a model called xMOV, or expected margin of victory, to rank each roster in the...