Rams safety Kamren Kinchens ranked inside the top-32 by PFF
The Los Angeles Rams don't have a star-studded secondary anymore. Instead, the team is full of veterans and unsung heroes who've held down the fort in recent years.
One of those players is 2024 third-round safety Kamren Kinchens. He started just four games in 2024 but saw more and more action as a rookie as the season progressed, including a Wild Card round start. Kinchens finished the year with 57 combined tackles, one fumble recovery and one interception for a touchdown.
His limited time on the field was good enough to earn him the No. 20 spot in Pro Football Focus' safety rankings heading into the 2025 NFL season.
"It took some time for the rookie Kinchens to break into the Rams' lineup. He played just 83 snaps over the first seven weeks in 2024 but soon put together multiple breakout performances, recording two of the top-40 safety performances of the season," PFF's Zoltán Buday wrote. "Those were a 92.6 PFF overall grade in Week 11 and an 87.8 PFF overall grade in Week 9."
Kinchens should begin the season as a starter alongside Kam Curl, and he'll be tasked with bolstering a downtrodden secondary unit that finished near the bottom of the NFL in 2024 and didn't add any stars during the offseason or the draft.
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