There’s a number of serious consequences for the Los Angeles Rams when they host the Detroit Lions on Sunday. Quickly, with a win, L.A. could lock in a playoff berth, Detroit, currently seeded 8th needs a win to keep up in the playoff hunt, and of course, there’s the old Stafford/Goff rivalry for fans to debate.
This piece is not about any of those important possibilities.
Looking for a Stafford vs. Goff slant, there wasn’t much left on the Rams career stat list. I did find it interesting how far down the list most of the current Rams players are. Since career records are mostly about tenure, how much movement is there, week-to-week for a young team.
Here’s how far the 2025 L.A. team can bump up the career chart in a given week. The stat projections provided on this week’s are conservative and fairly realistic. The official stats are from pro-football-reference.com
Passing
Career Attempts
Matthew Stafford (2374) needs 48 attempts to pass Jared Goff for 4th place
Career Pass Yards
Stafford (18054) needs 117 yards to overcome Goff for 4th place.
Career Pass Yards per game
Stafford (257.9) needs to total 429 pass yards to overcome Goff for 2nd place.
Rushing
Career Attempts
Kyren Williams (775) needs 23 carries to pass Jerome Bettis and Les Josephson for 8th place.
Blake Corum (159) needs 10 carries to pass Jared Goff and two others for 53rd place.
Matthew Stafford (121) needs four carries to pass Pat Haden for 67th place.
Ronnie Rivers (71) needs three carries to pass Norm Van Brocklin and tie Elroy Hirsch for 102nd.
Puka Nacua (29) needs one carry to pass three others into a tie for 146th place.
Tutu Atwell (16) needs one carry to pass six others for 191st place.
Jordan Whittington (5) needs one carry to pass 14 others into a tie at 267.
Xavier Smith (4) needs one carry to pass seven others for a tie at 277th.
Terrance Ferguson (1) needs one carry to pass 60 others for a tie at 332nd.
Career Yards
Blake Corum (757) needs 57 yards to pass Dante Magnani for 47th place.
Ronnie Rivers (290) needs 12 yards to pass CJ Anderson and Marc Bulger into 96th place.
Puka Nacua needs 10 yards to pass thee players into 113th place
Matthew Stafford (148) needs 10 yards to pass Issac Bruce and two others into 126th.
Tutu Atwell (72) needs 10 yards to get by 11 others and into a tie at 166.
Xavier Smith (36) needs 10 yards to pass 14 others and tie Bud Cooper for 215th.
Jordan Whittington (24) needs 10 yards t0 pass 20 others to be alone at 235.
Terrance Ferguson (0) needs at least a yard to make the plus side of the ledger.
Career Touchdowns
Kyren Williams (34) needs one score to pass Dick Bass for 6th.
Blake Corum (4) needs one touchdown to pass 14 others and into a tie for 58th place.
Puka Nacua (2) needs running score to break a 15-man logjam and join 14 others in 79th.
Both Tutu Atwell and Matthew Stafford need a TD to stand at two and in 92nd.
Receiving
Career Receptions
Tutu Atwell (103) needs two catches to join three others in a tie for 62nd place.
Kyren Williams (101) needs a pair of grabs to join Atwell at 65.
Davante Adams has 56 receptions and needs seven catches to be alone in 97th.
Colby Parkinson also has 56, three more would move him into a tie with Vitamin Smith at 102.
Jordan Whittington needs three catches to stand alone at #142.
Davis Allen (35) needs a pair of grabs to join two others in 134th place.
Ronnie Rivers (15) gets one catch and he moves up from 213th to 205th.
Tied with 13 snags, if Blake Corum and Xavier Smith can grab one apiece they’ll be up to #214.
Terrance Ferguson and Konata Mumpfield are in the same boat, one catch and up to 278th.
Career Touchdowns
Puka Nacua (15) needs to catch one score and he moves into a tie at 20th place.
Davante Adams (14), with two TD receptions joins Nacua at #20, in 13 career Rams games.
Tutu Atwell (5) needs one score to move from #89 to a tie for 76th.
Colby Parkinson (5) is in the same situation as Atwell.
Davis Allen (4), with a scoring catch could join Parkinson and Atwell.
Terrance Ferguson (1) and Konata Mumpfield (1) with a TD pass, could jump
Defense
Career Interceptions
Kamren Kinchens (6) needs one INT to jump 15 others, including London Fletcher and Corey Littleton into 63rd.
Jaylen McCollough (4), in less than 700 defensive snaps, needs one INT to jump 30 others for 93rd.
Ahkello Witherspoon (4) is in the same boat as McCollough, but has 1672 snaps.
Emmanuel Forbes (3) needs an INT to pass 25 others, including Adam Archuleta for 110th.
Kamren Curl (2), Cobie Durant (2), and Troy Reeder (2) need an INT to jump 50 others into 141st place.
Derion Kendrick (1) or Nate Landman (1), with an INT, can go from a logjam at 326th to another for 167th.
There are a handful of young Rams looking for their 1st career INT.
Career Solo Tackles since 1994
Darious Williams (157) needs four tackles to pass Quentin Lake into 56th place.
Kamren Curl (115) and Byron Young need seven tackles to match Christian Rozeboom at #69.
Cobie Durant (90) needs three tackles to break into the Top 100 at #98.
Kobie Turner (80), with three tackles, can tie Sebastian Joseph Day for 106th place.
Derion Kendrick (78) needs two tackles to for 111th.
Ahkello Witherspoon (74) needs three tackles to slide into 115th.
Omar Speights (70) needs seven tackles to also vie for #115.
Jared Verse (64) needs four tackles to be alone in 125th place.
Jaylen McCollough (54) needs two tackles to pass Dante Fowler and into 140th.
Nathan Landman (52) needs eight tackles to jump 13 players to 135th.
Braden Fiske (30) needs three tackle to get to a tie for 187th.
Emmanuel Forbes (27) needs three tackles to move from 202nd to 193rd.
Tyler Davis (25) needs three to pass Clay Matthews for 197th.
There are many Rams with less than 25 career tackles that could move up with a tackle or two
Career Sacks since 1960
Byron Young (26.5) needs a pair to pass Michael Brockers into 22nd place.
Kobie Turner (21.5) needs two for spot #28.
Jared Verse (10.5) and Braden Fiske (10.5) both need two to jump 14 players for 50th place.
Troy Reeder (5) needs one sack to pass Ernest Jones and Alec Ogletree into 84th.
Desjuan Johnson (3) needs a sack to pass 22 others into another big group at 116th.
Jaylen McCollough (2) and Josaiah Stewart (2), with a sack, can bump up to 132nd place.
Nathan Landman (1.5) can jump 46 players to #149.
What does this have to do with the Lions game?
Not much, just that Detroit is the opponent and the QB movement will be the Lions starter. Maybe a little excitement with Stafford passing Goff in a few more categories.
It is interesting, that while many fans like to say that stats are mostly meaningless, whenever two players are compared, stats are always included in the argument. In the sports atmosphere, where analysis is extremely subjective, stats are the closest thing to being objective, an accurate portrayal of on-field production. You can add subjective opinion as to why the stats ended as they did, but the production numbers are there just the same.
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