You will never guess how much of the Rams roster is on IR after just 2 games

If it seems as though the LA Rams have battled a lot of injuries recently, they have. And whether it was 2020 and a COVID-19 outbreak, an injury epidemic in 2022, or the current roster crisis in 2024, the front office has had a lot of practice at scrambling to fill unexpected roster needs and holes. But even the magic of Rams GM Les Snead can only go so far. At some point, players have to get healthy and stay healthy.

There is still hope for that rapid rehab and return to the Rams roster, but it had better happen soon.

Perhaps part of the problem is the front office itself. While data analytics has evolved from supplemental information to driving decisions, there appears to be a blind spot in terms of a player's durability. As more and more NFL teams seem to emphasize player safety, how is it that injuries are happening to the Rams roster at an ever increasing frequency. Is it the nature of the game, simply reaching high tide? Or has the team adopted some revision to their assessment players that misses the mark of durability?

Clearly something is amiss.

Availability is the greatest ability in the NFL Right now 12 players are on the Rams IR list. Considering a full roster is just 53 players, that's a huge portion of talent unavailable to the team after just two games. In fact, it's 22.6 percent of the team's 53-man roster. And if the team had not already exhausted the potential to restore players from IR (only eight players can be restored from IR in any given season, you can bet that Cooper Kupp would find himself on IR as well.

Here's a smattering of what we are talking about:

NFL Insider Ari Merov did not list DB Tre Tomlinson in his summary.

While the Rams may get many of these players back on the active roster, let's talk about the challenges of the team reshuffling the secondary and offensive line units on a weekly basis. The 'impact' of lost games assessed at year's end factors in as players lost for a season have a much greater impact. I'm not convinced that is always the case.

When it comes to groups that rely upon heavy doses of coordination and cooperation to play effectively, the chaos of reforming around a new group of players is a worst-case scenario. These football units need continuity, And right now, that is not happening for this team.

If and when the team begins to send the same offensive line and the same secondary onto the football field, the team will start to get better. Until that time, it's simply shooting from the hip. Let's hope that the team finds some threshold of continuity soon.

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