Breaking: Rams Face Tough Choices After Limmer’s Decision

The Los Angeles Rams offensive line is slowly getting healthier. While right tackle Rob Havenstein will miss Monday Night’s game with an injury, free agent signing Jonah Jackson should be ready to play against the Miami Dolphins. Steve Avila’s status is more of a question mark, but the door is open for him to play.

It won’t be long before we see the Rams offensive line fully healthy for the first time this season. While it is very good that the offensive line will be healthy, it also leaves the Rams in a difficult spot with a tough decision.

Through the first eight games of the season, one of the better performing players on the offensive line has been rookie Beaux Limmer. In two of the last three games, the Rams rookie has not given up a pressure from the center position. Additionally, since Week 5, he is one of four centers in the NFL to allow two or fewer pressures over that time period. In Week 9 against the Seattle Seahawks, Limmer allowed the lowest pressure rate by a rookie offensive lineman.

In Limmer, the Rams have seemingly found another draft steal in the sixth-round. The rookie center has played like one of the better young center in the NFL and he has continued to grow an improve every week. The issue is, unfortunately there are only five spots on the offensive line.

As the Rams get healthier along the offensive line and both Jackson and Avila return to the lineup, it does leave the team with an interesting decision to make. Limmer has played well and has done nothing to lose his spot. If anything, his performance would suggest that he should have earned a starting role.

On most teams that would be the case and the Rams would likely find a way to keep Limmer in the lineup. That’s what they did with Alaric Jackson prior to 2023 when Joe Noteboom entered the season as the team’s starting left tackle, but could not stay healthy. It’s also what they did in 2019 when David Edwards played well at left guard in place of the injured Joe Noteboom.

The Rams have shown in the past that if a player should be in the starting lineup and makes the team better, that player will be on the field. Again, using Noteboom as the example, he was the 13th-highest paid left tackle last season. Instead, the Rams opted for the undrafted free agent making $946,000.