A Yahoo expert shocks Rams fans with this sub-par assessment of team's offseason

Counting on injuries in 2024 to justify a low grade?

He also attributes the team's success in 2023 due to a lack of injuries, and then proceeds to grade the team's offseason as though he already knows that the 2024 season will be injury-prone:

"One tangible reason to worry about Rams regression is their injury luck last season. In 2022 they dealt with numerous injuries and finished second in adjusted games lost due to injury (a metric by Aaron Schatz of FTN Fantasy). The pendulum swung the other way and last season the Rams were the healthiest team in the NFL, finishing with the fewest adjusted games lost due to injury. It went from 146.6 AGL in 2022 to 26.4 last season, which is an incredible shift and shows how injury luck often has no rhyme or reason. The Rams good fortune last season included the fourth-fewest injuries on offense and the fewest on defense. Just like the Rams miserable 2022 injury luck, the great run from last season is unlikely to repeat."

- Yahoo writer Frank Schwab

So let's recap what Schwab discussed:

1. Aaron Donald's retirement
2. Overpay for Braden Fiske
3. Rams will be oft-injured in 2024

With that type of writing effort, it's no wonder that he has concluded that the Rams offseason warrants a C- grade.

Okay, opinions come as easily and as often as snowflakes fall from Alaska's skies in the winter. But it's all too often that a narrative like this one fails to consider the facts that do not support the premise. Are we to accept an opinion that so many rookies that contributed to the Rams stellar 2023 NFL season will all regress in their second year? Are we to believe that the same draft scouts and personnel executives who landed 5+ rookies who immediately contributed last season failed to find similar results with better picks in 2024?

Of course not.

Now, let's be honest with ourselves. Staying abreast of all 32 teams, with all of the losses and additions from an off-season, is awfully difficult to stay informed with all of the details. So let's help out Frank Schwab by sharing just a few of the key points of the offseason that he missed:

1: Rams invest in offensive line

Not only did the team extend starting left tackle Alaric Jackson and right guard Kevin Dotson, but also signed free agent left guard Jonah Jackson. the team then drafted rookie IOL Beaux Limmer and OL K.T. Leveston to ensure that the team has outstanding depth for each offensive line position for the 2024 NFL season.