Fantasy Football: The Rams don’t lie — and that’s important when it comes to Blake Corum


Blake Corum has a chance to make a fantasy football impact in his rookie season. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

The Los Angeles Rams, unlike pretty much every other NFL team, were not trying to hide essential fantasy intelligence from us last summer.

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Throughout the 2023 offseason, the Rams just kept telling us that Matthew Stafford was healthy and throwing like the vintage version of himself (which proved accurate), that Puka Nacua was absolutely feasting in camp (which carried over to the regular season in spectacular fashion) and that Kyren Williams was surging and headed for significant usage (information that might have won you a fantasy title if you were listening).

L.A.’s social media team existed primarily to produce Nacua hype — like this, and this, and this.

Basically, the Rams told no lies in the summer of 2023. If you simply listened to what they were screaming at us, you were a winner in fantasy football. Sean McVay’s team engaged in very little of the silly, performative secrecy that’s so common in the NFL. It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the best fantasy draft prep you could have done last August was simply to get caught up on Rams news, directly from team sources.

Obviously, it’s insane that the NFL is now a league in which franchises treat roster and injury information like nuclear launch codes, but that’s the current state of things. Last summer, the Rams proved to be an exception. A lot of good things were happening in camp, and they willingly shared the details.

With this fact in mind, we probably should not be dismissive of comments like these from McVay:

#Rams HC Sean McVay on rookies who impressed in minicamp:

“Blake Corum’s really stood out. Mature beyond his years. I love the way that he handles himself. I love even more how when there’s been a couple things that don’t go the way we wanted, how he responded the next play.”…


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Publish date : 2024-06-18 15:25:53

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