Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we maintain and update our existing Top 50 lists annually.  We are pleased to present our post-2025 revision of our top 50 Los Angeles Rams.

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

1.  Duration and Impact.

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

3.  Advanced Statistics.

4.  Playoff performance.

5. Their respective legacy on the team.

6. How successful the team was when he was there.

7. Respecting the era in which they played.

Criteria 1-4 will make up the lion’s share of the algorithm.  Please note that we have implemented this for the first time.  This has changed the rankings all throughout the board.

Last year, the Rams had a phenomenal year, going 12-5 and making it to the NFC Championship Game, falling to the eventual Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks in a tight contest.  As the Rams have been around for a century, it takes a lot to enter this list, and there were no new additions and only one elevation.

As always, we present our top five, which had no changes.

1. Aaron Donald
2. Merlin Olsen
3. Deacon Jones
4. Jack Youngblood
5. Orlando Pace

You can find the complete list here:

The only elevation was Quarterback Matthew Stafford, the reigning MVP, who jumped to #31 from #41.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

The 2026 NFL season is here, and we have updated our Pre-Season Football Monitor.

As we have expanded our projects, we can’t say we've expanded the team behind the scenes!  As a result, we are a little behind on this one, and we could only post the top 50 of the Pre-Season Monitor at this time.

We will add more during the season (and yes, we know that defeats the purpose of pre-season), but thank you for your patience.

Up first are the Quarterbacks, with a staggering eight ranked in the top 50.

They are:

#1 QB, #2 Overall: Aaron Rodgers, Pittsburgh Steelers. #1 Overall Last Year.

#2 QB, #4 Overall: Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs, #3 Overall Last Year.

#3 QB, #9 Overall: Matthew Stafford, Los Angeles Rams, #26 Overall Last Year.

#4 QB, #12 Overall: Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens, #10 Overall Last Year.

#5 QB, #16 Overall: Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills, #17 Oveall Last Year.

#6 QB, #32 Overall: Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles, #33 Last Year.

#7 QB, #37 Overall: Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys, #37 Last Year.

#8 QB, #46 Overall: Jared Goff, Detroit Lions, #45 Last Year.

Look for more information on this project shortly.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we maintain and update our existing Top 50 lists annually.  As such, we are delighted to present our post-2024 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 that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Chargers had a strong season, finishing 10-7 and advancing to the playoffs, and made it to the Divisional Round, falling to the eventual Super Bowl Champions, the Philadelphia Eagles.  There was one new addition to the list and one elevation on our Top 50.

As always, we present our top five, which remain unchanged. 

1. Aaron Donald
2. Merlin Olsen
3. Deacon Jones
4. Jack Youngblood
5. Orlando Pace

You can find the entire list here.

Cooper Kupp, who is now with the Seattle Seahawks, was unable to move from #31.

Quarterback Matthew Stafford makes his debut at #41.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

Matthew Stafford arrived in Los Angeles in early 2021 carrying the weight of twelve seasons in Detroit, where the numbers were always there, and the wins almost never were. The Rams gave up Jared Goff and a pair of first-round picks to get him, and many thought they had overpaid for a quarterback whose arm was bigger than his résumé. He proved them wrong almost immediately. 

In Sean McVay’s offense, he found a home with Cooper Kupp and a defense that could finish games. The Rams went 12-5, reached Super Bowl LVI at their own stadium, and beat the Bengals 23-20. Stafford threw for 283 yards and three touchdowns. On the final drive, with the game on the line, he looked off a safety and fired a no-look pass to Kupp for 22 yards that set up the winning score. It was the throw of a man who had waited a long time for that moment and refused to miss it.

The years that followed were harder. Injuries limited him in 2022, and the Rams bottomed out. He came back in 2023 and threw for 3,965 yards and 24 touchdowns, earned another Pro Bowl nod, and finished eighth in MVP voting. The arm was still live, the deep ball still on time, and he kept the offense moving even when the pieces around him changed. 2024 was solid, but it felt like a bridge to something better.

That something arrived in 2025. At 37, after nursing a back injury through training camp, Stafford led the league with 4,707 yards and a career-high 46 touchdowns, while throwing only eight interceptions. His passer rating hit 109.2. He earned First-Team All-Pro honors and his third Pro Bowl selection, then was named the NFL’s MVP. He threw touchdowns to every level of the field, from deep shots to Puka Nacua and Davante Adams to precise intermediate throws that kept drives alive. The Rams went 12-5 again, won two playoff games, and reached the NFC Championship before falling to Seattle. It was the fullest expression of everything the trade had promised.

Stafford enters the 2026 season still the Rams’ quarterback and still capable of the throws that change games. The Super Bowl ring and the MVP trophy sit on the same shelf, and the production has been consistent enough that he already ranks among the most accomplished passers in franchise history since he arrived. With Los Angeles, he has thrown for more than 19,000 yards and well over 130 touchdowns in five seasons. The skepticism that greeted the trade is long gone. What remains is a quarterback who has already delivered the biggest moments and shows no sign he is finished making more.

2025 Pre-Season Rank #26, 2024 Pre-Season Rank #31, 2023 Pre-Season Rank #37, 2022 Pre-Season Rank #37, 2021 Pre-Season Rank #59, 2020 Pre-Season Rank #67.  Peak Period: 2021-25.

A change of scenery can change the perception.  

Matthew Stafford was a Lion for 12 years, racking up passing yards but only a few wins.  A Pro Bowl participant once in Detroit, Stafford was entrenched as a second-tier QB.  The Rams traded for him, and he became a Super Bowl Champion in his first year in Los Angeles, gaining national recognition. Articles were written (and scoffed at) proclaiming him a Hall of Famer, but his play in L.A. has now placed him not only in the conversation, but to many pundits, a lock. 

Much of that came from last season’s performance, where for the first time in his career, he led the NFL in Passing Yards and Touchdown Passes, but most importantly, he won the MVP.  He also rocketed up the all-time lists, and is currently 6th in Passing Yards (64,516) and 7th in Touchdown Passes (423), and another monster year will move him even higher.  Considering who he has to pass to, that seems very doable.

If Stafford wins a Super Bowl in 2026, and he is favored to do so, get the bust ready now. 

Selected first overall out of Georgia in 2009, Matthew Stafford stepped into a Motor City franchise coming off a bleak 0-16 campaign, tasked with resurrecting the organization from the ground up. Equipped with a signature cannon arm and extraordinary toughness, Stafford locked down the starting job instantly and spent twelve seasons operating as the unquestioned face of the franchise.

Stafford's statistical explosion came in 2011—his first fully healthy season—when he threw for 5,038 yards and 41 touchdowns, earning Comeback Player of the Year honors while leading Detroit to its first playoff berth in over a decade. Possessing lethal arm strength from every platform angle, Stafford made a habit of staging late-game heroics, setting an NFL single-season record in 2016 with eight fourth-quarter comeback victories.

Throughout his run, he developed an iconic connection with Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson, but even after Megatron's retirement, Stafford continued to rack up monster production. He cleared the 4,000-yard passing threshold in seven separate seasons as a Lion (19 overall), earned a Pro Bowl nod in 2014, and snapped a long franchise drought by becoming the first Lions passer since Greg Landry in 1971 to earn a Pro Bowl trip.

Despite his jaw-dropping volume, a lack of consistent defensive support and a nonexistent running game frequently left Stafford fighting uphill, resulting in a 74-90-1 regular-season mark in Detroit. A blockbuster 2021 trade sent him to the Los Angeles Rams, where he immediately validated his elite ceiling by capturing Super Bowl LVI in his inaugural West Coast campaign.

Over his run in Detroit,  Stafford compiled 45,109 passing yards, with a 282-144 TD-INT ratio.