LOS ANGELES -- As the 2022 Los Angeles Rams wrapped up a 5-12 season, the front office recognized the 2021 core that had won Super Bowl LVI was aging.
"You're going to naturally want to run it back [or] repeat, and you bring a lot of those players back," Rams general manager Les Snead said. "When it didn't work out at that point, you got to say, 'OK, who's the core? How many years does that core have together? It's not going to last forever. When is it best to start trying to engineer a new core?