2025 Los Angeles Rams season

The 2025 season was the Los Angeles Rams' 88th in the National Football League (NFL), their 89th overall, 59th in the Greater Los Angeles Area, sixth playing their home games at SoFi Stadium and their ninth under head coach Sean McVay. This was the first season since 2016 not to feature longtime wide receiver Cooper Kupp, as he was released during the offseason and signed by the division rival Seattle Seahawks. The team's 11–4 start was their best since they started 12–3 in their 2018 season. The Rams clinched their third consecutive winning season (and their eighth in nine years) after a 34–7 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 12. Los Angeles secured its third consecutive playoff appearance, and seventh in nine seasons under McVay, with a Week 15 win over the Detroit Lions. However, the Rams failed to defend their NFC West title following an overtime loss to Seattle in Week 16 followed with wins by both the Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers in Week 17.

In the playoffs, the Rams defeated the NFC South champion and No. 4 seed Carolina Panthers 34–31 in the Wild Card round. The Rams then beat the No. 2 seeded Chicago Bears, champions of the NFC North, 20–17 in overtime in the divisional round to advance to their third NFC Championship Game appearance in eight seasons. There, they faced the top-seeded rival Seattle Seahawks, champions of the NFC West, and lost to the eventual Super Bowl LX champions by a score of 31–27.

The Rams were the only team to score above 500 points during the regular season. Defensively, the team was also respectable (but not elite), allowing the 10th-fewest points in the league. Los Angeles finished with a +172 point differential, which was second to only Seattle's and a tad better than that of the AFC Champion New England Patriots. The Rams also gained a reputation for being one of the most difficult teams to beat in the NFL, as they only lost two games, regular season and postseason, by more than three points, in which the loss in the regular season came in Week 3 against the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles, who blocked a game-winning field goal attempt by the Rams and returned it for a meaningless touchdown that padded the margin of victory. All the while, the Rams played in a division with two other playoff teams, faced one of the more challenging schedules in the NFL, and tied for the highest strength-of-victory in football. For these reasons, Pro Football Reference's Simple Rating System and ESPN's Football Power Index rated the Rams as the second-strongest team in the NFL during the season.

Despite the strong season, the team was undone by shaky special teams play in four of their six losses, including the aforementioned defeat in Philadelphia and both critical losses against Seattle. Several sources described this season's special teams unit as a fatal flaw that prevented Los Angeles from adding another championship during the highly successful McVay-Snead era.

The Los Angeles Rams drew an average home attendance of 69,736, the 16th-highest of all NFL teams.