Weirdest 2025 Rams predictions include punting, bird gauntlets, and new QB eras

The Los Angeles Rams are a team that has turned around from a horrific 2022 NFL season to rise to the ranks of NFL contenders once more. All the while, we have spent time preparing bold predictions before the upcoming NFL season that exemplify the team's accomplishments. This season, we plan to try something a bit different.

This is not about staking our reputation on bold predictions; it's time to try a hand at weird predictions. Rather than focus on the unlikely positive achievements that this time might accomplish in 2025, this genre focuses on the stranger-than-fiction variety of accomplishments that seem to defy logic. Rather than finding these achievements in NFL statistic record books, they are more likely to be found in Ripley's Believe It or Not.

The point being that the Rams can accomplish some bold achievements this year. And you will encounter many such predictions. This is an article that takes a different path of prognostication. What weird and unusual things might force fans to do a double-take? Here are four of the weirdest predictions you will find anywhere about the team in 2025.

4 of the weirdest predictions for the Rams' 2025 season

(4) - P Ethan Evans leads in gross punting yards, but among bottom in net punting yards

Punter Ethan Evans has a cannon of a leg, as was on full display throughout the preseason. Evans boomed his punts, leading all punters in the preseason with a phenomenal gross punting yards average of 56.8 yards per punt. That average, if held, translates into punting the football from the team's own 20-yard line to the opponent's 23-yard line. Well, if the coverage unit was up to snuff, that is.

The team allowed 10 punt returns of 169 yards and a touchdown. Evans averaged just 41.1 net yards per punt, dropping to 14th best in preseason. Unfortunately, efforts to improve punt coverage have yet to yield results. In the meantime, fans continue to hold their breath anytime the team is forced to punt. It's not fear that the football will not sail to the other end of the field. It's the fear that no players on the coverage unit will be in place to stop a huge runback.

(3) - Rams complete the Bird Gauntlet

One of the weirdest accomplishments in the NFL is the Bird Gauntlet. The reason that the achievement is so weird is that one NFL team seldom faces all five NFL teams with a bird mascot. The Bird Gauntlet is the act of defeating all five NFL teams with bird mascots in the same season. Because the Rams compete in the NFC West Division, they get two cracks at defeating the Seattle Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals.

Sep 21 at Philadelphia Eagles
Oct 12 at Baltimore Ravens
Nov 12 vs. Seattle Seahawks
Dec 07 at Arizona Cardinals
Dec 18 at Seattle Seahawks *
Dec 29 at Atlanta Falcons
Jan 3/4 vs. Arizona Cardinals *

The problem with this particular achievement is that the team plays all five teams on the road, and almost all have been projected to be in the running for a berth in the NFL Playoffs at season's end. It's more difficult than the postseason in that it requires winning five games. Perhaps the weirdest part of this achievement is that no NFL team in history has ever accomplished this.

(2) - No Rams running back will break 1,000+ rushing yards

The offense needs explosive plays, and the key to delivering that is to ensure that players are fresh and healthy. The running back room is likely to boast multiple ball handlers in 2025. One of the most successful seasons for the team's efforts to run with the football since hiring HC Sean McVay occurred in 2020. In that season, the team rushed for 2,018 yards, but no running back rushed for more than 625 yards.

The key to a strong ground attack is not always about running one player into the dirt. The offense has a robust assortment of running backs this year, and wisdom dictates that they all get a share of the workload. If this offense ensures that at least three running backs get 100+ carries, it won't matter that no single running back gains 1000+ yards. The group will do a fine job of ensuring the offense has a robust and balanced offense.

(1) - Stetson Bennett throws his first pass in an NFL regular season game

While he remains buried on the depth chart, quarterback Stetson Bennett continues to disprove his critics and naysayers. He has improved steadily in each of his three NFL seasons, once again ending the preseason as the runner-up in passing yards. Keep in mind that he only competed in two games. While some critics will cling to the excuse that he performed well in preseason, he faced starting defenses and still enjoyed success.

You may suspect that he won't see the football field this season, but if the team enjoys success and/or has a meaningless game in Week 18, HC Sean McVay could sit his starting quarterback and allow Jimmy Garoppolo to take the field. When that happens, Bennett is promoted to QB2. Whether by injury or game scenario, the likelihood of Stetson Bennett throwing his first NFL pass in a game is weirdly possible. Hopefully, it's a 50+ yard touchdown pass. As always, thanks for reading.