Do [**the Los Angeles Rams**](https://ramblinfan.com/) have plenty of talent to spare? Well, that depends on how healthy this team remains throughout the 2025 NFL season. I do think that it's fair to admit that the Rams roster as the team enters 2025 is a bit better suited for the challenges of a 17-game NFL season. The Rams did not attack the offseason seeking stars. Rather, this offseason seemed to focus on finding contributors.
While that may seem like a subtle distinction to make, it deserves to be discussed. In more recent offseasons, the Rams roster was viewed as one that was barren of talent at vital positions. In 2023, the team seemed to have little depth or talent along the offensive and defensive fronts. In 2024, the team seemed to have next to no depth at pass rushers.
And yet, the Rams drafted quality players who became instantaneous starters.
Perhaps fans have grown accustomed to the team's success in recent drafts. In 2023, the team found NT Kobie Turner, an interior defensive lineman who was deservedly the 2023 Defensive Rookie of the Year. In 2024, the team found OLB Jared Verse, who was honored as the 2024 DROY. They were but two members of their impressive draft classes.
In 2025, there does not seem to be an opportunity on the Rams roster for such heroics and elite performances from rookies. The Rams front office seemed to surrender to that fact, as the team drafted players who were not instantly recognized as plug-and-play starters, either for any NFL team, or by fans as instant starters for this team.
Whether starters or not, they add meaningful depth to a team that had to overcome significant adversity in 2024. The Rams opened Week 1 without either starting offensive tackle or starting cornerback. The team lost its starting center in the game. And yet, the Rams went on the road and fought the Detroit Lions into overtime.
Other NFL teams are facing that same level of early adversity. For those teams, it's still quite early, and they have every opportunity to work waiver wires, scan the NFL free agency market, or even initiate trade negotiations to restore balance and depth to their rosters in time to compete in 2025. Does their misfortune create opportunities for the Rams front office? You decide.
In order to do that, you have to know which teams may struggle. They are: