Who will be first LA Rams player to score in front of SoFi Stadium fans?

Nobody can overwrite the ‘first’ from the NFL record books. The LA Rams can have players surpass records for the most in a game, most in a season, and most in the history of the franchise, but for the first? That player’s name will never change. So as the State of California relaxes regulations over attending sporting events, the reality is that the LA Rams will likely play for fans in the stands once more. Now the question is: Who will be the first to score for the LA Rams in front of fans at SoFi Stadium? That would make a great prop bet.

In the world of sports betting, a “proposition bet” is a bet made regarding the occurrence (or non-occurrence) during an event not directly affecting the game’s final outcome.

Traditionally, proposition bets can be made on outcomes such as the number of touchdowns a quarterback might throw in a game, whether a defensive player will score, which team will score the first points, and really, any statistically discrete event contained in a match or game could conceivably be bet on, no matter how outlandish it might appear at first blush – such as how many times will the Rams’ television announcers use the word “dynasty” during their telecast.

SoFi sat empty in 2020

But no, this is not a proposition bet coming out of a Vegas sportsbook. But rather, just idle speculation, perhaps just wishful thinking spit-balling about which LA Ram will pop the SoFi end-zone cherry in front of home field fans.

After all, their new $5 billion SoFi gridiron sat vacant and forlorn all last season. Didn’t even need to oil the turnstiles once, because they never once turned.

Will it even be an offensive player? Could it be a defender with a pick-six or a turnover they take all the way to the house?

Will The La Rams be interested in making a statement to the rest of the NFL in their first home game? Will their new QB Matthew Stafford come out throwing the ball deep to their new speedy road runner receiver DeSean Jackson? Will they take a page out of the Philadelphia Eagles history book and throw deep to DJax on the first play from scrimmage? Worked for Philly. (Of course, critics could rightfully point out that DeSean Jackson’s injuries prevented anything like that from happening in 2020.) So maybe they should throw to him from the get-go, before he gets injured again or pulls a hammy (again), eh?

McVay’s methods

Or, will head Coach Sean McVay order up a more conservative approach to their initial home game and give their new quarterback time to feel comfortable in his new offense and allow him to methodically work the ball down the field? To get in synch with his new team’s offensive game plan? If that’s the case, perhaps it will be a running back such as Cam Akers or Xavier Jones who finds the first touchdown paydirt.

It’s just kinda intriguing to consider the Rams’ two newest offensive toys might come out of the tunnel and open up with a TD-bomb from Stafford to Jackson. But then, could just as easily be a bomb to Robert Woods, Cooper Kupp, or Van Jefferson.

Will it even be an offensive player? Could it be a defender with a pick-six or a turnover they take all the way to the house? (In which case, perhaps Jalen Ramsey is a safe bet.)

The LA Rams are still 17 players shy of their 90-man limit. So conceivably, the player to score first may not yet be on the Rams roster.  Now that would be quite a headliner if a rookie puts up the first score for fans.

Room to speculate

Unfortunately, we don’t know which team will their first home field opponent just yet, because it hasn’t been announced. Still, we do know this much – it will be a touchdown scored against one of these eight teams because these are the Rams’ announced home games: Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars or Tennessee Titans.

Could it be the Detroit Lions, who the Rams found as a willing trading partner twice already?

Realistically, it could be one of perhaps 12 different players. But here’s my Top Six. (1) Cam Akers (2) Desean Jackson (3) Robert Woods (4) Cooper Kupp (5). Van Jefferson and (drum roll). . . (6) Matthew Stafford.  it would be lots of fun watching Stafford doing something he’s never done before in his entire NFL career – score on a QB sneak. It’s time he did!