5 Reasons Why Los Angeles Rams Should Bench Case Keenum

One Career 300-Yard Game

Keenum may have set all sorts of passing records during his college playing days at Houston, but the NFL is a completely different league. And unfortunately for Keenum, this league hasn’t been too friendly for him throughout his playing career.

How bad is it exactly been for Keenum? Well, let’s just say entering Week 6, Keenum has appeared in 21 games during stints with the Rams and Houston Texans. In those 21 games, there’s only been one time where Keenum has thrown for more than 300 yards in a game, which is sad to think about for a veteran NFL quarterback.

That performance took place all the way back in 2013 during Keenum’s second-career game with the Texans in which he completed 20 of 34 passes for 350 yards with three touchdowns in a loss to the Indianapolis Colts. To top it off, Keenum lost all eight games he appeared in that year for Houston as his first career win didn’t come until the following year.

It’s easy to cut a player slack for struggling to adjust from the college level to the NFL, but it’s amazing to see how much Keenum has struggled to record 300-yard games throughout his career. What makes this statistic even more sad to think about is even if Keenum remains the starter throughout the rest of the regular season, it seems unlikely he would record more than one or two 300-yard games when considering the weak receiving corps.