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Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images It’s almost too many offseasons to count at this point when it comes to the Los Angeles Rams fanbase pleading the team to draft a linebacker. That’s no different heading into the 2025 offseason with Christian Rozeboom set to leave and Omar Speights the only starting linebacker set to return.

The first half of the 2024 season seemed to be navigating the loss of Ernest Jones. Once the Rams plugged Speights into the defense following the injury to Troy Reeder, that position group got much better. Rozeboom went from a bottom-tier linebacker to middle of the pack. From Weeks 9-17, Rozeboom was PFF’s fifth-highest graded linebacker and graded out…