Projecting Rams’ depth chart after 2024 NFL draft: How many rookie starters?
Over the course of the next few weeks and months, the Los Angeles Rams will begin onboarding their rookies and getting them ready for Year 1 in the NFL. They added 10 total players in the draft and while some of them have a chance to start, there’s no guarantee any of them will be atop the depth chart come Week 1.
With an already talented roster, the Rams’ veterans will try to hold off the young guns in training camp. That could be difficult at certain positions, though, as Jared Verse, Braden Fiske and Kamren Kinchens all look like early contributors on defense.
Excluding undrafted rookies, below is a projection of what the Rams’ depth chart could look like. There are three rookie starters, all on defense, and four backups on offense who could see time in the event of an injury – or in Blake Corum’s case, when spelling Kyren Williams.
A lot will change between now and September, but here’s how we see the depth chart as of this moment. (Note: rookies are italicized)
Offense
1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | |
QB | ||||
RB | Kyren Williams | Blake Corum | ||
WR1 | Tyler Johnson | |||
WR2 | Xavier Smith | |||
WR3 | ||||
TE | Colby Parkinson/Tyler Higbee | Nikola Kalinic/Miller Forristall | ||
LT | Joe Noteboom | A.J. Arcuri | ||
LG | KT Leveston | |||
C | Mike McAllister | |||
RG | Joe Noteboom | Grant Miller | ||
RT | Warren McClendon Jr. |
Defense
1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | |
DE | Braden Fiske | |||
NT | Bobby Brown III | |||
DT | ||||
OLB | Jared Verse | |||
ILB | ||||
ILB | ||||
OLB | ||||
CB | ||||
S | Kamren Kinchens | |||
S | Jason Taylor II | |||
NB | ||||
CB | Tre’Davious White | Cameron McCutcheon |
Special teams
1st | 2nd | |
K | ||
P | ||
LS | ||
KR | Blake Corum | |
PR | Tutu Atwell |
