The 2025 Rams offense was a diverse and efficient powerhouse.
The No. 1 offense in terms of scoring and yardage was fueled by the most successful rushing attack in the last decade and the league leader in passing yards and touchdowns, quarterback Matthew Stafford. The Rams put defenses in constant conflict with their marriage between run and pass concepts, opening up opportunities to succeed in both, and they did that at a level no other team was able to match.
Here are five interesting stats from the Rams' 2025 offense.
The Rams led the league in both expected points added (EPA) per play (+0.12) and success rate (49.6%) in the regular season, according to Next Gen Stats
These are the two metrics widely viewed as the most indicative of true offensive productivity, and the Rams led the league in both. This means every time the Rams ran a play, their expected point total increased by an average of 0.12 compared to what other teams would achieve in similar contexts based on historical data. And nearly half of their offensive plays netted positive EPA, increasing their chances to score on that drive.
The Rams' success rate on designed runs to running backs (49.7%) was the highest for any team in the Next Gen Stats era including playoffs
The second-best team in terms of success rate on running back carries was also a Sean McVay-led Rams team in 2018. The scheme has changed a lot since then, which ESPN's Ben Solak chronicled a few weeks ago, and the backfield split with Kyren Williams and Blake Corum took the run game to new heights in 2025.
Corum and Williams ranked second and fourth, respectively, in success rate among backs with at least 100 carries (49.7% for Corum and 48.5% for Williams).
Stafford led the league in play-action passes, completions, yards and touchdowns in the regular season, according to Next Gen Stats
The Rams' success on the ground set up the most effective play-action passing game in the league, and one of the best of the last decade. Stafford threw 214 play-action passes (most in the Next Gen Stats era) and completed 144 (third-most) for 1,786 yards (third-most) and 20 touchdowns (tied-most).
McVay marries concepts on play-action passes to the ones in the run game so that they look the same and force the defense to hesitate or misread plays. Stafford's ability to sell the run fakes and then get his head around to dissect the defense quickly allows them to consistently pick them apart.
Puka Nacua set a Pro Football Focus record for contested catches in a regular season (27)
Nacua has been described as a "pit bull" and a "dawg" among other things, and this stat partially encapsulates why: If there's a ball in his area, Nacua will fight anyone in his path to come down with it, and he usually does.
Since PFF started tracking contested catches in 2016, nobody has had more in a regular season than Nacua. In fact, no one has even matched Nacua's number in a full season, including playoffs. He was extremely efficient in that context, hauling in 71.1% of his contested targets, which ranked first among all players with at least 12 such receptions.
"If it's not me coming down with the ball, nobody can come down with it," Nacua said after the wild-card round. That has been Nacua's approach throughout his football career, but it really came to life in 2025.
The Rams' 30.5% 13 personnel rate was more than double the next-closest team this season and the most in the Next Gen Stats era by nearly 13%
Since 2016, no other team has used 13 personnel more than 17.6% of the time (2021 Browns). The team with the second-highest 13 personnel rate this season was Pittsburgh, who put three tight ends and one running back on the field just 13.2% of the time. This was a truly unique identity that the Rams adopted this year, and it was effective.
Los Angeles averaged 6.2 yards per play (4.8 yards per carry and 8.4 yards per dropback) and scored 32 touchdowns out of that grouping, also the most in the Next Gen Stats era with the next closest being 12 by the 2020 Titans.
