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5 Rams players who regressed the most in 2025
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The 2026 NFL offseason is all about evaluation, and the Los Angeles Rams will need to take a long look at their roster before they make decisions on what to correct in 2026.
Some of those decisions may involve player moves. Others will involve coaching or schematic changes. Either way, the team has some issues to solve to compete for a Super Bowl next season.
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Looking specifically at players, there were five who clearly regressed in 2025. Some of that regressed was opportunity-based, while others were injury-related or just overall performance declines.
Here are five Rams players who regressed in 2025.
WR Tutu Atwell
This is the easiest starting point for this list. Atwell broke out over the previous two seasons for L.A. with 81 receptions for 1,045 yards and three touchdowns in 33 games. He signed a one-year, $10 million deal in the offseason and repaid the Rams with a dud of a season.
Atwell finished the year with six catches for 192 yards and one touchdown, although that score took up 88 yards of his season total. He missed seven games due to injury but only played more than 26 offensive snaps in one of the 10 games he was active for in 2025.
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RT Rob Havenstein
Havenstein missed 10 games this year with injuries, but the veteran tackle wasn't very good even when he played. Even if he had returned earlier, Warren McClendon have proven to be a more effective linemen than Havenstein.
Havenstein's Pro Football Focus numbers looked abysmal in 2025 compared to the previous season and with his Rams teammates. His overall grade dropped by almost 20 points from 74.1 to 56.4, while his pass-blocking grade dropped by 21.7 points to 45.2. Those numbers also ranked seventh among Rams linemen.
The 33-year-old is an impending free agent and could retire this offseason.
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WR Jordan Whittington
Whittington's role didn't see much of a decline in 2025 despite the addition of Davante Adams , but his numbers went down a bit more than expected. Whittington finished with three fewer targets and four fewer receptions, but his yards per reception dropped by 3.8, his catch rate dropped by 6.6% and his receiving success rate (which measures the percentage of a receiver's targets that result in a positive gain toward a first down) dropped by 27%.
Whittington will probably never be the Rams' third pass-catching option, but his metrics when called upon weren't up to the level the Rams were used to in his rookie year.
DE Braden Fiske
This may be controversial, but Fiske set the bar pretty high for himself when he tallied 8.5 sacks as a rookie in 2024. While he didn't disappear in 2025, Fiske didn't play up to the same level the Rams saw out of him this past season.
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Fiske finished with just three sacks this year despite starting in 16 games. He did have a few bumps and bruises along the way, which may have affected his play. Fiske had relatively the same amount of pressure, though, with 22 in 2024 and 18 in 2025. He also had fewer combined tackles and fewer tackles for a loss this year.
P Ethan Evans
The Rams will take a long and hard look at special teams this year after the poor season this unit had. They already changed special teams coordinators with Bubba Ventrone now at the helm and the jury is still out on what to do with kicker Harrison Mevis .
That leaves Evans, who didn't look as good in 2025 as he had in years past. For one, Evans' Pro Football Focus grade dropped from 79.1 in 2024 to 67.9 in 2025. His yards per punt remained steady (around 46 yards), but he had a much lower rate of punting the ball inside the 20-yard line (40.0%) in 2025 than he did in 2024 (54.5%).
This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: 5 Rams players who regressed the most in 2025
