Rams players littered throughout Fox Sports' 'half-decade' team

As we pass the midway point of the 2020s, it’s worth looking back at which players made the biggest impact on the NFL over the past five season.

The Los Angeles Rams were one of three teams to have at least three players listed on Fox Sports’ “Half-Decade Team,” with Davante Adams, Myles Garrett and Aaron Donald all earning spots on the star-studded roster. Los Angeles tied with the Kansas City Chiefs for the second-most representatives of any franchise, behind only the Baltimore Ravens‘ four. And if you’re wondering where Matthew Stafford is, Fox Sports only picked one quarterback, and it was hard to leave Patrick Mahomes off this list.

But the Rams’ total comes with an asterisk the Chiefs and Ravens don’t share: two of the three honorees have spent a combined one season in Los Angeles so far. Adams arrived via trade in 2025 and just completed his first year with the team. Garrett only just joined this offseason after being dealt from Cleveland in a blockbuster move, and has yet to play a single snap in a Rams uniform. Only Donald’s Rams tenure predates the recent roster overhaul — and he’s been retired the past two seasons.

Adams made the cut at wide receiver alongside Justin Jefferson and Ja’Marr Chase. The 33-year-old is one of two receivers with three first-team All-Pro nods since 2020, alongside Tyreek Hill, and led the NFL with 14 receiving touchdowns in his first season with the Rams.

Garrett headlines the edge rusher spot after setting a single-season NFL record with 23 sacks last season — while still a Brown. No edge rusher in the league has more first-team All-Pro selections since 2020 than his five, a total he shares the position slot with Pittsburgh’s T.J. Watt.

Then there’s Donald, arguably the best defensive tackle in modern NFL history, who was still in peak form for his four seasons in the decade, winning his third Defensive Player of the Year award and earning three first-team All-Pro nods before stepping away.

The upshot: the Rams’ tie for second-most honorees is less a story of sustained excellence in one place — like Baltimore’s Henry, Smith, Hamilton and Tucker, or Kansas City’s Mahomes, Kelce and Jones — and more a snapshot of aggressive star acquisition still in progress. If Donald returns in 2026 as rumored, Los Angeles would field three Half-Decade Team honorees simultaneously for the first time, even though two of them barely have a season of Rams football behind them.

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