8 Rams whose performances have earned extensions for the 2025 NFL season

Even as the LA Rams prepare to face the Buffalo Bills in Week 14, we have to keep the team's 2025 roster in the corner of our eyes. After all, the challenges facing the team in 2024 are partially a result of decisions made not to extend key contributors from last year's team. And even as the strategy to reform the team around rookies who will be drafted during the 2025 NFL Draft is sound, there is an inherent risk to relying on that strategy to fill vacancies.

Will the right quality rookie prospect be on the NFL Draft board when the Rams make their selections?

While the team is quite adept at churning the roster to ensure that the team has an ample supply of young players who are prepared to step up and take on starting and significant rotational roles, there are good reasons to insist on some level of continuity in terms of veterans who have been there, done that before. Perhaps that is why the team seems to have regressed in 2024? Was the team too aggressive in trying to do a full roster makeover?

Of course, some aspects of the team were unavoidable. But the team did opt to trade veteran inside linebacker Ernest Jones for next to nothing. And the team was rather aggressive early in the 2024 NFL Free Agency market, a flurry of activity that fell far short of expectations when those new and unfamiliar players suited up to compete in Horns this season.

As with any NFL front office, you have to learn to accept the results. You win some, you lose some. The thing is, the chances of getting what the team pays for seems to be better if the players are extended, and not signed as free agents. We know that OLB Michael Hoecht, IOL Kevin Dotson, and even OT Alaric Jackson were extended at the end of the 2023 NFL season. So who should the team give strong consideration to re-signing at the end of 2024? We have six players who, based on what we have observed so far, warrant bringing back. And they are: