At least one NFL analyst holds little hope for Rams to do this in the offseason

As the Los Angeles Rams pivot from their 2024 NFL season to their 2025 offseason, the front office must digest the pluses and minuses of the past year, hold significant discussions with the coaching staff, and then for an action plan for the 2025 season and constructing a Rams roster to succeed in competing for a Super Bowl LX victory.

Of course, the act of reforming an NFL roster must first deal with the potential loss of veterans with expired contracts. And the Rams roster is not immune to that erosion of talent. In fact, starting left tackle Alaric Jackson has already begun his marketing campaign on social media. And so, the NFL offseason begins with a bang.

Rams GM Les Snead has been here before, and has a pretty good feel for what does and does not work when it comes to his players. Snead has never held much value in tagging players, as it forces them to return to the team as a fixed price that is rather expensive to the team and obligatory to the player. That has never sat quite right with the Rams front office. If nothing else, their objective is to insist on players who want to play for the Rams.

Using a franchise or transition tag exerts the forced return of players to the team, something that Snead and associates veer clear of.

Pro Football Focus contributor Mason Cameron was pretty quick to respond to the end of the 2024 season with his Franchise-tag candidates for all 32 NFL teams entering the 2025 NFL offseason where he runs down the most likely franchise or transitional tag candidates for all 32 NFL teams. He seems to have done his homework, as he cites the Rams as unlikely to use either a franchise or transitional tag on any projected free agents this offseason.

Does that make sense?

I think so. The only player who is even a remote candidate is starting left tackle Alaric Jackson, but the cost of tagging him is beyond the Rams budgetary constraint for 2025. The team likely wants to divest of high-paying contracts, and tagging Jackson takes the team in the opposite direction.

That is not to say that the team will not re-sign Alaric Jackson. It makes complete sense to do so at the right prices. But the team is expected to use the youth-movement lessons learned from the defensive side of the football, and apply those lessons to the offensive side of the football in 2025.

Going cheaper is not only good business, but it proved that the team can get exciting results by getting rookies involved as well. As always, thanks for reading.

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