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NFL sets 2024 salary cap at $255.4M, nearly $13M higher than anticipated

The salary cap is up more than $30M from last year and nearly $13 million more than originally projected

All offseason, sites such as Over The Cap and Spotrac projected the 2024 salary cap to be set around $242 million. That was merely an estimation, and on Friday, the NFL set the actual salary cap much higher than anticipated.

The 2024 cap is set at $255.4 million, up more than $30 million from last year’s cap of $224.8 million. It’s also about $13 million more than anticipated, which is excellent news for the Rams and every other team. That gives them more money to spend this offseason as they look to get back to the Super Bowl.

Under the estimation of $242 million, the Rams were projected to have about $32.6 million in cap space after cutting Brian Allen. Now, that figure will rise to $46 million for Los Angeles, a hefty amount with free agency coming up in March.

According to Over The Cap, the Rams have the 11th-most cap space of any team in the NFL right now and they can create even more room by making a few other moves.

Rams release Mason Crosby, make 3 other roster moves

The Rams released Mason Crosby, a show of confidence in Lucas Havrisik. They also placed 2 players on IR and signed a long snapper.

The Los Angeles Rams brought in Mason Crosby a week ago in order to create some competition at kicker, but his time with the team was short-lived. The Rams announced on Tuesday that Crosby has been released from the practice squad.

Lucas Havrisik made three field goals and two extra-point attempts in Sunday’s loss to the Ravens, which Sean McVay was encouraged by. It seems the Rams will stick with him for at least another week with Crosby now out of the picture.

Additionally, the Rams made a few other roster moves. They placed Hunter Long on injured reserve with an MCL injury, which will require surgery. Long snapper Alex Ward was also placed on IR due to a stinger suffered Sunday, so the Rams brought in Carson Tinker to replace him for at least the next four weeks.

The Rams’ special teams unit has struggled all season, and it’s not going to help that they’re forced to make a change at long snapper with Ward injured. Tinker was previously with the Rams late in the 2021 season, spending the end of that season on the practice squad.

Rams waive Cory Durden, Myles Gaskin in flurry of roster moves

In addition to waiving Brett Rypien and Dresser Winn, the Rams cut two more players on Tuesday

The Los Angeles Rams are off this week for their bye but they’ve kept busy. On Tuesday, the team made a flurry of moves.

In addition to signing Carson Wentz and waiving both Brett Rypien and Dresser Winn, the Rams cut Cory Durden and Myles Gasking from the active roster. It hasn’t been revealed whether Wentz is going on the active roster or practice squad, but regardless, the Rams have three available spots between the roster and practice squad now.

Durden helped fill in for Bobby Brown III at nose tackle, playing a handful of snaps the last few weeks. Gaskin was signed off the Vikings’ practice squad after Kyren Williams went down but he never got a carry.

Rypien started Sunday’s game against the Packers and Winn only spent a week on the practice squad before being cut.

Ranking Rams’ 23 most important players for 2023

A lot has changed with the Rams in just a few months, so it’s time to re-rank the team’s most important players for 2023

As the Rams gear up for their season opener against the Seahawks on Sunday, we’re taking a look at Los Angeles’ most important players for 2023. We previously put together a countdown before training camp, ranking the 23 most important players on the team, but a lot has changed since then.

Ahkello Witherspoon and John Johnson III have been signed, Alaric Jackson has emerged as the starting left tackle and Puka Nacua looks on track to play a significant role on offense.

So with that being said, it’s a good time to re-rank the Rams’ 23 most important players for the upcoming season.

Projecting Rams’ depth chart for Week 1 vs. Seahawks

With the Rams’ 53-man roster set, here’s a look at what the depth chart could look like in Week 1 against the Seahawks

Since the start of the preseason, the Los Angeles Rams have had an unofficial depth chart available for the public to see. But with the 53-man roster now set, the depth chart could look a little bit different than it initially did.

Ahead of the Rams’ season opener against the Seattle Seahawks on Sept. 10, we’re taking a look at the team’s depth chart and projecting who the starters will be, who will work as backups and who is in a reserve role.

Not a ton has changed since the start of training camp but a few players have risen up the depth chart into starting roles – including Ahkello Witherspoon and Byron Young. Here’s how we project the depth chart to look for the start of the regular season.

(Update as of 10:15 a.m.: Depth chart has been updated to reflect Ochaun Mathis going on IR and Duke Shelley being signed).

Rams currently have the 2nd-youngest roster in the NFL

The average age of the Rams’ roster is 25.49, which is the 2nd-youngest in the NFL

If there’s one thing about the Rams that became abundantly clear this offseason, it’s that they’re going to be a very young team in 2023. They drafted 14 players in April and signed another 20-plus as undrafted rookies, so nearly half of their roster was made up of first-year players throughout the summer.

Obviously, not all of those rookies made the 53-man roster but the 14 draft picks did and one undrafted rookie, Alex Ward, also made the team, so 15 of their 53 players are rookies.

As a result, they’ve assembled one of the youngest teams in the NFL. According to Spotrac, the Rams’ average player age is 25.49 years, which is younger than every team except the Packers (25.3). The Saints have the oldest team at 27.17 years, just to show how they compare to the Rams.

This could change as the Rams churn their roster and make moves in the next week or so, but no matter what Los Angeles does, this is going to one of the youngest teams in football.

That was on display during the preseason when most of the players on the field were rookies and second-year guys. It’ll help to have Matthew Stafford, Aaron Donald, Cooper Kupp, Tyler Higbee and Rob Havenstein leading the team, but Sean McVay has his work cut out for him.

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Position-by-position comparison of Rams’ initial 53-man roster in 2022 vs. 2023

We take a look at how each position group looks this year compared to last season’s initial 53-man roster.

Spoiler: A lot has changed.

With the season opener just over a week away, the Los Angeles Rams set their initial 53-man roster on Tuesday. It’s bound to change before Week 1 against the Seahawks, but we have a good sense of what the team will look like this season.

When comparing last year’s initial 53-man roster to this year’s, there are a lot of changes. Only 25 players from last year’s roster made the team again this season, meaning there are 28 new faces – more than half the roster.

There are also 15 total rookies on the 2023 roster, 14 of whom were drafted by the Rams in April.

Here’s a position-by-position comparison of the 2022 and 2023 rosters set by the Rams after final cuts.

Instant analysis of every position group on Rams’ 53-man roster

Quick thoughts on each position group on the Rams’ initial 53-man roster

With less than two weeks to go until the start of the regular season, the Los Angeles Rams have trimmed their roster down to 53 players. They trimmed their roster before Tuesday’s 4 p.m. ET deadline, cutting the likes of Logan Bruss, Robert Rochell and Brett Rypien to get under the limit.

Things are bound to change between now and Week 1, especially considering they don’t have a kicker on the active roster, so this is only the initial group of players for Los Angeles.

But nonetheless, here are our quick thoughts on the group the Rams have put together with the season approaching.

7 takeaways from Rams’ initial 53-man roster

The Rams don’t have a kicker, all 14 drafted rookies made the team and Stetson Bennett is QB2

It was a busy day for the Los Angeles Rams on Tuesday as they trimmed their roster down to just 53 players. It’s always difficult to predict who the Rams will keep and who they will cut, and that remained true this year with the team cutting Logan Bruss and keeping the likes of Zach Thomas and Zach VanValkenburg.

This is only the Rams’ initial 53-man roster and there are still plenty of moves still to come in the next few days, but at least we now have some clarity heading into Week 1 of the regular season.

Here are seven big takeaways from the Rams’ initial 53-man roster.

Here is the Rams’ initial 53-man roster for 2023

Take a look at the Rams’ official (and initial) 53-man roster for the start of the 2023 season

The Los Angeles Rams have finally made it. After two-plus days of cuts and roster moves, they’ve gotten their team down to just 53 players after carrying nearly 90 throughout the offseason.

There were some difficult (and surprise) cuts along the way, including Logan Bruss, Marquise Copeland, Tanner Brown and Robert Rochell, but this is the group the Rams are rolling with as Week 1 approaches.

Of course, this is only the initial 53-man roster because there are still waiver claims and injury designations to work through, so things are bound to change in the next week or so. For now, the Rams have just two quarterbacks and a large group of offensive linemen, as well as a relatively thin group of inside linebackers.

Here’s a look at Los Angeles’ initial 53-man roster now that the final cuts have been made.

(*) = rookie