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5 players who may be playing their final down with the Los Angeles Rams during the 2025 season

Originally posted on A to Z Sports | By Kyle Crabbs | Last updated Jun 25, 2025 2:20 PM ET

The Los Angeles Rams' transition appears to be complete.

After the bottom fell out amid a Super Bowl hangover, Sean McVay 's group leaned into the youth movement and hoarded draft picks and young talent to rebuild while offloading expensive veterans. The result? Back to back 10-win seasons and taking the eventual Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles to the brink in the NFC Divisional Round last winter.

Expectations are sky high. And for some, this will be a final go-round to bring the Rams back to the top of the mountain before the roster turnover realities of the NFL catch up to them. Here are five prominent players set to play on expiring contracts in 2025 with Los Angeles.

Kyren Williams, Running Back

Williams has been one of the most consistent backs in football over the last two seasons. He does the little things well and runs hard despite not being a bigger back. The challenge comes with trying to value Williams as a part of the Rams' offense. He's running behind a well-invested in offensive line and has players around him that keep opposing teams off-balance.

Williams has also seen the Rams draft a running back in the middle rounds of the past two NFL Drafts in Blake Corum and Jarquez Hunter. The need for more explosive plays on the ground was painfully evident last season — leaving Williams as an undoubted asset but a difficult one to value. He's scheduled to be a free agent after the season.

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Tutu Atwell, Wide Receiver

Los Angeles landed a one-year extension with Atwell this offseason to keep him with the team that drafted him with high hopes back in 2021. This isn't a volume player in the passing game and, as a result, his production has been modest. But Atwell brings a tangible feel of speed to the offense that makes him a viable piece of the puzzle when the Rams are in 11-personnel. There have been signs of life over the past two seasons, just not what you'd want out of a top-60 draft choice.

Atwell was passed by Demarcus Robinson last season for snaps, which could bode for a short-lived second lease on life in Los Angeles despite getting the one-year extension this spring.

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Tyler Higbee, Tight End

The writing on the wall for Higbee suggests we may be reaching the end of the line with the Rams. Higbee is an expiring contract after the 2025 season and recent additions to the room like Colby Parkinson (2024 free agent) and Terrance Ferguson (2025 top draft choice) are locked in for a longer runway.

Higbee deserves flowers for a triumphant return at the end of 2024 following a devastating knee injury in the 2023 postseason. He started all three games he played at the end of the regular season but now is teetering on the brink of being phased out based on his age and other moves at the position. By the end of this season, it feels inevitable that Higbee will need to find a new contract elsewhere.

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Rob Havenstein, Right Tackle

Havenstein has been a staple for the Rams. He's served as a 10-year starter and logged 141 total starts for the franchise. But he's just turned 33 years old and missed multiple games in each of the last two seasons. His 684 offensive snaps last season were the lowest he's logged since 2019. Havenstein is an expiring contract this offseason and after Los Angeles opted to give Alaric Jackson a new deal, it may come at the expense of a new extension for Havenstein.

There's certainly a chance Havenstein returns, but the intersection of age, durability, and cost is starting to tip the scales.

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Quentin Lake, Defensive Back

There's a pretty incredible amount of defensive stability in Los Angeles right now. You'd be hard pressed to find too many expiring contracts on this side of the ball that should qualify as a challenge to replace.

Lake, the team's top defensive snap-taker last season, is an impressive run defender and continued to expand his role on the back end. But the Rams have let defensive backs walk in recent years after finding successful hits late in the draft — just as they did with Jordan Fuller and Nick Scott. Is Lake the next to mature through the system on a rookie contract and be turned loose?

This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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