How many starting vacancies are LA Rams really filling?

How many players should the LA Rams focus upon replacing? Oh, how easy it is to get lost in the numbers. 90 to 80 to 70 to 53 then add back 12 or is it 16 or it might be 14? No, this is not a Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) question, although it probably could be. Suffice it to say that there are times where the left side of the brain gets its fair share of the workload.

You see, the truth to the matter is that there is a number within a number that truly needs tracking. The LA Rams 53 man roster from 2020. That 53 man roster is largely intact with some obvious changes. And it was the 53-man roster from 2020 that accounted for the 10-6 record that catapulted the team to the sixth seed of the NFC Playoffs.

So the real ‘roster’ work that all of the additions and subtractions to the team are a bit distracting in the end. What the real objective is to reexamine this roster and focus on only the moving parts of players who vacated spots on the 53-man roster, and then examine the roster further to examine whether the player was a starter, rotational player, or simply working as a roster insurance policy?

So let’s try this out. This is somewhere between a basic numeric headcount and a full-fledged drill-down analysis. It’s quick because I won’t be spending weeks sorting through statistics and hard data. And it’s dirty because I won’t spend the hours necessary to analyze player production per snap count. It’s a quick and dirty look at the LA Rams 53-man roster.