The Los Angeles Rams may not have made the Super Bowl this year, but that doesn’t mean their contention window is closed.
Pro Football Focus’ John Kosko named the Rams as one of the five teams best positioned for the future. His reasons are simple: L.A. has a lot of salary cap space, two first-round draft picks, a host of quality players across the roster and, presumably, Matthew Stafford at quarterback for at least one more season.
General manager Les Snead and head coach Sean McVay have done a tremendous job building one of the best rosters in the NFL and developing the talent around presumptive MVP Matthew Stafford.
While Stafford won’t play at an MVP level forever, he keeps the Rams firmly inside a Super Bowl window through at least the 2026 season. With premium draft capital and ample financial flexibility, Los Angeles is positioned to keep adding high-end talent to an already loaded roster and remain among the league’s elite for the foreseeable future.
The key for L.A. is not squandering this opportunity. And so far under Snead and McVay, they haven’t. The Rams only missed the players twice in McVay’s nine seasons at the helm and only won fewer than nine games once.
But with Stafford inching toward retirement, either now or later, the Rams need to strike while the iron is hot. The draft and free agency will be critical this offseason, as well as extending their best players at reasonable rates.
The end of the 2025 season was heartbreaking, but 2026 could be shaping up well for L.A. already.
This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Rams named one of 5 teams best positioned for the future
Reporting by Tyler Greenawalt, Rams Wire / Rams Wire
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