The Rams spent the offseason building something that looks a lot like a new chapter, and their team docuseries makes that clear without ever needing to say it outright.
Through Behind the Grind - the organization’s version of Hard Knocks - Los Angeles has been giving fans a look at how the sausage gets made: the decisions, the roster moves, the internal thinking, the little moments that shape the bigger picture. The appeal isn’t fancy filmmaking.
It’s the access. It’s seeing the real work that happens before a team ever takes the field.
Episode 2, released in late May, leaned into that idea. It gave quarterback Matthew Stafford a spotlight after he won his first MVP, but the bigger story was the franchise itself and the way it kept reshaping the roster during the offseason.
That reshaping was everywhere. The Rams brought back tight end Tyler Higbee on a two-year deal in free agency and safety Kam Curl on a three-year extension that was signed days before the free-agent period opened. Those moves were part of a much larger roster reset, one that the episode framed as the team preparing for another run while keeping key veterans in place.
General manager Les Snead also clearly had a plan for the secondary after it came up short in the playoffs. The Rams went after help there, trading for All-Pro Trent McDuffie and signing free agent Jaylen Watson to give the defense a needed lift at its biggest problem spot. And then came the other headline addition: Myles Garrett.
The draft brought its own surprise when the Rams took a first-round quarterback this year, though the move didn’t shock everyone. Plenty of fans have come around on Ty Simpson as a pick that fits where the franchise is headed, balancing the future with the present.
Los Angeles also came away with the smallest draft class in franchise history, but that was by design. Snead was deliberate, and the team didn’t hand any of those rookies a guaranteed role in 2026.
Still, each one is there to be developed, and the episode made that point feel real, especially with Tim Keenan III’s highlights at the end. Hard to believe the Alabama nose tackle was there in the seventh round.
So the Rams enter another NFL season with yet another roster built from scratch. The rest is now about letting it take shape, piece by piece, once training camp arrives in late July.
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