It’s widely known that the Los Angeles Rams are going to have one of the youngest and least experienced teams in the NFL this year. It’s inevitable after they cut ties with veterans such as Jalen Ramsey, Leonard Floyd, Bobby Wagner and Allen Robinson, while also letting other starters leave in free agency.
That doesn’t make it any less jarring to see just how much less experienced the Rams are compared to the rest of the NFL. TexansCap on Twitter put together a chart showing the average years of experience for every team in the league.
The Bills come out as the most experienced, with an average of 4.03 years. The median is 3.08 years. Both of those numbers are considerably higher than the Rams’ average years of experience: 1.78.
The next-closest team is the Packers at 2.19 years, followed by the Titans (2.40 years).
Average Experience Level (in years service) per team.
LA Rams clearly the youngest team based on experience. pic.twitter.com/f3Wgh3HAbD
— TexansCap (@TexansCap) July 25, 2023
Now, it does make a difference that this exercise is based on 90-man rosters and not each team’s future 53-man roster, which will be set in September. Right now, the Rams have 36 rookies on their roster and it’s highly likely that less than half of them will make the final roster.
Granted, the Rams aren’t the only team with a bunch of rookies on their roster right now, but they have more than probably anyone else, just based on the fact that they had the biggest draft class (14 players) and then signed 26 more undrafted rookies, four of whom have been cut.
This is obviously a very young team led by a small group of veterans, but Sean McVay is welcoming the challenge of leading an inexperienced, yet hungry squad.
“There’s never been more competition, more uncertainty in a positive way with any team since we’ve been here, I would say other than 2017 when we were all getting to know each other and so that’s exciting,” McVay said Tuesday. “That’s what’s fun about football.”
