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As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post-2021 revision of our top 50 Los Angeles Rams.

As for all of our top 50 players in football we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Football League. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Rams won it all, their second Super Bowl, and their first since they relocated to Los Angeles.  The loaded team gave us two new entries, and we thought we might have seen a new number one, but we will explain that further as there are no changes in the top five.

As always, we present our top five, though there were no changes in this elite group:

1. Merlin Olsen

2. Aaron Donald

3. Deacon Jones

4. Jack Youngblood

5. Orlando Pace

You can find the entire list here.

Aaron Donald, who we wondered if we jumped it too fast by rocketing him to #2, was seriously considered to supplant Olsen on the top spot.  Anther Pro Bowl year likely will put him there.

Wide Receiver, Cooper Kupp, who won the Receiver’s Triple Crown, the Super Bowl, the Super Bowl MVP and the Offensive Player of the Year Award in 2021, debuts at #49.

Recently retired Offensive Lineman, and last year’s Walter Payton Man of the Year, Andrew Whitworth, appears at #50.  

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There are few players who had a better half of their NFL career than Andrew Whitworth.

Whitworth began his pro career in 2006 with the Bengals, but his first Pro Bowl did not happen until 2012, when he was already past 30.  After two more Pro Bowl with Cincinnati (2015 & 2016), he signed with the Rams in 2017, adding his fourth Pro Bowl. 

Providing a veteran and cerebral presence with the Rams, Whitworth helped L.A. make it the Super Bowl in 2018, but it was a losing effort to the Patriots.  Playing until he was 40, Whitworth remained one of the better Tackles in Football, and he punctuated his career with the perfect finale.  On the day before the Super Bowl, Whitworth was named the Walter Payton Man of the Year, and he played a key role in Los Angeles’s Super Bowl LVI win.  

What a way to call it a career!

As of this writing Cooper Kupp is the primary offensive weapon for the Los Angeles Rams, and among the top flight in NFL Wide Receivers.

The Rams had high hopes for Kupp, who was a Third Round Selection from Eastern Washington, but this is not an institution that is known for producing stars.  Kupp, was an All-Rookie, accruing a respectable 869 Yards, and had he not been injured the year after for half of the season, he would have likely had his first, 1000 Yard year as a sophomore, though he secured that in his third year (1,161 Yards).  After dipping below to 974 Yards in 2020, the Rams underwent a change in Quarterback, with Jared Goff exiting for Matthew Stafford, and the ascendence to the elite for Kupp began.

Kupp instantly became Stafford’s favorite target, and he easily won the Receiving Triple Crown (145 Receptions, 1,947 Receiving Yards and 16 Receiving Touchdowns).  Named a First Team All-Pro, Kupp won the AP Offensive Player of the Year.  Even more electric in the playoffs, Kupp set records in a single post-season with 33 Receptions with his 478 Yards second only behind Larry Fitzgerald.  Kupp, who caught the game-winning Touchdown in Super Bowl LVI, was named the Super Bowl MVP, capping one of the most outstanding seasons ever by a Wide Receiever.

2022 was a disappointment for both the Rams and Kupp, as they had a losing record and Kupp missed half of the year on the injured list, but he enters 2023 as L.A.’s top weapon.

Aaron Rodgers isn’t a man who holds back, and it’s perhaps why he’s so evident in the public eye, perhaps more so than anyone else in the NFL. When the Green Bay Packers star talks, there’s always a microphone ready to amplify his message. The veteran quarterback can also be viciously amusing, and it’s clear that he has the respect of his team-mates, both past, and present.

In a light-hearted interview, Rodgers echoed previous comments made by Davante Adams when he responded to the return of Allen Lazard after he missed off-season duty as a way to force the issue on a new contract, the 38-year-old joked;

"I mean, it's always tough going from Hall of Famer to Hall of Famer,"

This was a direct response to Adams discussing now working with Derek Carr at the Las Vegas Raiders, having previously had the pleasure of receiving passes from Rodgers for the best part of eight years.

Rodgers is always ready to put himself into the action and to be fair, he is a big part of Green Bay and is pretty much the unofficial spokesman for a team he has represented with honor for 17 seasons. 

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It’s now 12 years since Rodgers picked up his sole Super Bowl championship and arguably a second, if well overdue. You can’t fault the efforts of the outspoken QB; he has, after all, been named the NFL MVP for two seasons in a row and four times in total.

The departure of Adams may harm such hopes, and the connection that Rodgers had with the 29-year-old wide receiver was palpable. This didn’t stop him from turning down a new Packers deal and instead took a five-year offer from the Raiders said to be worth over $141 million.

The reasons for the move were not just financial as Adams was keen to connect again with Carr, who was a college team-mate back in Fresno State. 

Now Rodgers needs Lazard to step up, and the 26-year-old certainly upped his game in 2021, collecting eight touchdown passes, a total that was more than his previous two completed seasons combined.  

Aaron Rodgers turned up for training camp in an outfit that was instantly compared to that worn by Nicolas Cage in Con-Air, and while such a move is classic Rodgers behavior, it’s always important to remember, if it was not already abundantly clear, that while the 10-time Pro Bowl pick is always ready to crack a joke (even at his own expense), there are few NFL players that take the game as seriously as Aaron Rodgers.