The Los Angeles Rams begin their quest to repeat as Super Bowl champions—and their most valuable asset may be their sports science approach that has repeatedly kept the team’s injuries down
There’s a room in the Los Angeles Rams’ facility called the barbershop. Players know they can walk in there and freely talk about their aches and pains, or just about anything else they want to discuss. The space even has a barber pole hanging outside, but nobody goes there to get their haircut.
The Rams have been one of the NFL’s healthiest teams. The team’s vice president of sports medicine and performance Reggie Scott says it’s about the team’s belief in data. Credit: Brevin Townsell/LA RamsChips and tracking technology have quantified what people used to estimate or judge with their eyes.
They also don’t blindly rely on spreadsheets. Scott calls it marrying the objective with the subjective—which they also have a process to distill. Twice a week, Rams players fill out a survey about how they’re feeling. When the answers in those questionnaires dovetail with a trend or metric they’ve observed, they know they’re onto something.
For it to work, McVay has to be willing to make practices lighter based on trends around the team, in the interest of keeping players fresh over the course of a season that’s now 17 games. He also has to be accommodating when the numbers indicate it’s wise to give a player time off not because he’s hurt—but because their process indicates he could be at increased risk of landing on the shelf.
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