The move Rams fans are begging for before mini-camp begins is just sitting there

The Los Angeles Rams meticulously invested in the roster with nearly surgical precision throughout the 2025 offseason. In 2023, the team seemed to be willing to accept that the team's roster had too many needs, so the Rams hooked up the hose to the 2023 NFL Draft and showered the team with 14 drafted rookies. In 2024, the team still had many needs, so it tried to bolster the roster with 10 drafted rookies and six veteran free agent signings.

In 2025, the Rams reversed course. This year, the team signed four new veteran free agents, while drafting just six rookies. How could the team hope to contend with so few reinforcements to the roster?

For starters, the Rams may have sputtered on offense and defense to open the 2024 NFL season, but by the time the Rams entered post-season competition, this team was purring like a high-performance engine. The Rams did lose in the Divisional Round of the 2025 NFL Playoffs, but fell to the Philadelphia Eagles, the eventual Super Bowl LIX winner.

And anyone who followed the NFL Playoffs understands that the Rams put up the best fight when facing the Eagles on the road in a snowstorm. Yes, it's a new season. Yes, this is a brand-new team. But you and everyone associated with the Los Angeles Rams football organization can take heart in the knowledge that this team was within a stone's throw of competing in another Super Bowl.

Wholesale changes are not required. Fine tuning and a handful of roster tweaks are needed this time.

Rams uncanny way of winning in 2024 has to be considered

While the team's run defense is the natural focus of many fans this offseason, the team was not exactly perfect in many areas. What this team did excel at was an instinctive bit of teamwork and esprit de corps that allowed one aspect of the team to compensate for another aspect of the team that struggled.

For example, rookie kicker Joshua Karty made 29 of 34 field goal attempts in 2024. But of those five missed field goals, the team either won the game, or the margin of loss was so great that he was not on the hook for missing a potential game winner.

In a similar fashion, when the team faced the offensive juggernaut known as the Buffalo Bills, the Rams' offense sprang to life as the team scored 44 points. The Rams would win that game by a score of 44-42. The same Rams offense would only put up 44 points throughout the next three games. Ironically, it was the defense's turn to roar to life, holding opponents to six, nine, and nine points, respectively

There were no heroics for this team in 2024. Or rather, everyone took a turn at playing the hero. That opens the door for elite players to step in and provide a new level of heroics. Or does it? A big challenge with former Rams rosters is that so many players in supporting roles seemed to ease up, waiting for one of the All-Pro players to have an All-Pro moment. But with no All-Pros on the roster in 2024, everyone seemed to step up.

Can the front office and coaching staff preserve that mindset among all players if the team tries to upgrade the secondary before mini-camp?