The Los Angeles Rams’ special teams have been a huge point of question this season.
The special teams have had three kicks blocked this season, missed a kick due to hitting the upright, and could be blamed for one of the losses this season.
Second-year player Joshua Karty is the kicker behind the bad luck for the ST this season. Karty missed five kicks in his rookie season and has almost tied it through 6 weeks in the 2025 NFL season.
One NFL analyst puts Joshua Karty in the hot seat after his inconsistent performances this season.
Joshua Karty Named To The Hot Seat
GettyLos Angeles Rams kicker Joshua Karty
Joshua Karty had 34 rookie field goal attempts in his rookie season, making 29 of those. Three of those misses came from 40+ yard attempts. This season, Karty has missed two from the same ranges.
ESPN’s Ben Barnwell puts Karty in the hot seat after hitting the upright in the team’s week 6 victory against the Baltimore Ravens.
“This has been a topsy-turvy year for Karty, who has played a key role in each of Los Angeles’ losses this season. The second-year kicker had two field goals blocked in what ended up being a fateful loss to the [Philadelphia] Eagles. While I wouldn’t necessarily pin that on Karty, he then missed a 53-yarder against the [San Francisco] 49ers last week before having an extra point blocked and placing his overtime kickoff short of the end zone, handing San Francisco a short field on its drive for the game-winning field goal,” Barnwell wrote.
“In what were admittedly rainy, windy conditions in Baltimore on Sunday… Karty lined up for a chip shot from 26 yards out, only for the wind to push his kick into the right upright. Kickers just don’t miss in that range anymore… Could McVay have been concerned about the weather in making his kicking game decisions? Potentially.”
The NFL website’s Kevin Patra also names the Rams‘ kicking game as one of the team’s biggest issues this season.
There have been several kicking changes so far this season and the Los Angeles Rams could be another team that could switch.
Will Rams Make a Change?
GettyLos Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay
While it remains in the realm of possibility that the Los Angeles Rams will make a kicking change, it seems unlikely.
Head coach Sean McVay said after the game that it was more of a team effort on the missed field goal attempt, but no coach will blame one singular player.
“I thought he protection was good; we gotta make the kick,” McVay said, via Rams Wire. “We ended up missing the kick and ended up hitting the second one not very clean right there. The snap felt like it was a little bit high.”
McVay appears to still be in high regard for his kicker and won’t make a change. But Karty has little to no room to make more mistakes this season.
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