BOISE, ID - NOVEMBER 5: Wide receiver Puka Nacua #12 of the BYU Cougars waves goodbye to the Boise State Broncos crowd during second half action at Albertsons Stadium on November 5, 2022 in Boise, Idaho. BYU won the game 31-28. (Photo by Loren Orr/Getty Images)
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In part thanks to drafting 32 prospects in the past three years, including 2024, the Los Angeles Rams have the most players signed for the 2025 season with 70. That’s four more than any other team, which is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with 66 players signed for 2025.
The upside to having so many players on rookie contracts is that L.A. still has an estimated $34 million in cap space for next offseason. That number will change significantly, as most cap numbers will in the next nine months, but the Rams have an advantage in roster building thanks to having an inordinately high number of players on rookie contracts.
The key will be for those players to get better or keep playing well, whether that’s Puka Nacua, Kobie Turner, or Stetson Bennett.
The more they get back from the 2022, 2023, and 2024 draft classes, the less money that the Rams will need to spend to fill needs next year. The less money that the Rams spend on needs, the more that Les Snead and Sean McVay can spend on wants.
The headliners are Ernest Jones and A.J. Jackson, but the Rams also signed Jimmy Garoppolo, Demarcus Robinson, and Tre’Davious White to one-year deals. If L.A. wants to retain any of those players, it will cost them some portion of that $34 million.
The Rams haven’t drafted any off-ball linebackers of note recently, so the replacement for Jones is probably an acquisition next year (free agency, trade, draft) or to simply keep Jones.