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The LA Rams are certainly a tough team to try to predict by looking for any semblance of a repeatable pattern. The team has been surprisingly active early in the 2021 NFL Free Agency market. So far, the Rams have keyed upon defensive players. And yet, that wasn’t how the Rams played their offseason work as recently as last year.
In the 2020 offseason, the LA Rams had a wave of players projected to test free agency due to expired contracts. At that time, the expectation was that the Rams would attempt to retain some of the defensive players, and allow players from the weak offensive line to depart gracefully by signing on elsewhere.