Rams running back C.J. Anderson is a story that only makes sense in Hollywood

The best story for the Los Angeles Rams in 2018 is C.J. Anderson, plain and simple.

Regardless of how this season winds up, be it a loss or win against the New Orleans Saints, or a win or loss in the Super Bowl, the Los Angeles Rams will have ascended to a new level of excellence in a league where they too often were an afterthought under Jeff Fisher.

In 2018, LA ran it’s regular season record to 13-3, won the NFC West for a second straight season, and was a winner in what many believe was the best if not most entertaining Monday Night Football game when the Rams outscored the Kansas City Chiefs 54-51.

When all is said and done, Los Angeles head coach Sean McVay will again have met and raised expectations of a team who not too long ago toiled at 4-12. But with all that, the 13-3 record, a couple of big prime time wins, as well as a well earned first victory in the playoffs over the Dallas Cowboys, the best story of 2018 is running back C.J. Anderson.

Anderson, who was out of football expecting a new baby next April, was pulled back into a professional football locker room in Week 16 and immediately helped the Rams to two needed wins over the Arizona Cardinals and again in Week 17 against the San Francisco 49ers. Both wins allowed for Todd Gurley to get some needed rest for knee inflammation, and insure Los Angeles retained their second seed in the NFC.

In the last two games of the season, and coming off of the Rams suffering two consecutive losses, Anderson rushed for 167 yards on 20 carries and scored a touchdown against Arizona. He’d follow that performance with 132 yards on 23 rushes adding another touchdown versus the Niners. Against the Cowboys in perhaps the most important game in Sean McVay’s young coaching career, he’d add another 123 yards and two touchdowns to go along with Gurley who had 115.

That’s production straight off of the street after being cut by the Oakland Raiders earlier on December 12.

Anderson is all professional. He knows there are zero certainties in the NFL, and gets that he’s often been cut as a means to an end for teams managing money and often saving it or allocating it for what he knows is their better investment, even when it’s not him..

The Los Angeles Rams have certainly done a lot of things right this season.

When everyone does their postmortem on 2018, the best story next to only a Lombardi Trophy, will be C.J. Anderson and what he brought to a team he’s helped get to the NFC Championship Game.