A Second Round Pick from Wisconsin-La Crosse, Tom Newberry was a member of the 1986 NFL All-Rookie Team at Left Guard. He would be a Second Team All-Pro in '87 and in the two seasons that followed he was a First Team All-Pro and Pro Bowl Selection. He would start 128 of his 131 Games as a Ram.
A Safety who spent his 11-year entire career with the Los Angeles Rams, Nolan Cromwell came off the bench for the first two years but would become a starter in his third season as the teams’ starting Free Safety. Cromwell would emerge as a high tier Safety being named a First Team All-Pro three straight seasons (1980-82) with the season after marking his fourth straight Pro Bowl. He would pick off Quarterbacks 37 times in his time in the National Football League.
One of the early stars of the Cleveland Rams was Jim Benton, the star End from the University of Arkansas who as a rookie would lead all players in Yards per Reception, though this was 1938 and he only had 418 Yards. Still, that was the game back then, and he would be a Pro Bowler in 1940 where he had 7 Touchdown Passes, again league leading. After a good 1940, he took a year off to coach (remember there wasn't a lot of money back then), but he returned in 1942 but due to the depletion of players due to World War II the Rams suspended operations, and he would join Chicago where he helped them win the NFL Championship.
Roman Gabriel may have been the second overall pick of the 1962 Draft, but the former member of the North Carolina State Wolfpack took a long time to officially win the starting Quarterback job for the Los Angeles Rams. Gabriel competed with veterans Zeke Bratkowski and Bill Munson but in 1966 the new Head Coach, George Allen eliminated all controversy by naming Gabriel the number one QB.
Tom Fears was the first NFL player of note to be born in Mexico, and the former UCLA standout would play all nine of his NFL seasons with the Los Angeles Rams. Fears was initially pegged to be a Defensive Back, but he would blossom on the offense where the End would help usher in more of a passing attack in the game.
One of the greatest athletes ever to come out of Fresno State, Henry Ellard was used as both a Wide Receiver and Punt Returner in his first few seasons in the NFL. Ellard was still catching his fair share of passes, but he was good enough as a Punt Returner to be named a First Team All-Pro and a Pro Bowl in 1984. Ellard would go on a tear where from 1988 to 1991 he would exceed 1,000 Receiving Yards, the first of which saw him lead the National Football League with 1,414 Yards and he was named a First Team All-Pro again. The Wide Receiver would finish fourth and second in Receiving Yards the next two seasons and overall as a Los Angeles Ram he totaled 9,761 Yards from the air.
A Super Bowl Champion with the Green Bay Packers, Adam Timmerman signed with the St. Louis Rams where he helped protect the Offensive Line for the most exciting offenses of the late 1990s. Timmerman was a Pro Bowl Selection in 2001, and he would start 125 of his 126 games as a St. Louis Ram.
In retrospect, Jim Everett got a bad rap. He feuded with Jim Rome (who labeled him "Chris" in reference to his play comparing him to the female player, Chris Evert), the Rams gave up a lot for his rights, and he had an overall losing record.
LeRoy Irvin was a third round pick from the University of Kansas and the Cornerback would be named a First Team All-Pro as a Punt Returner in his second season when he led the NFL in Punt Return Yards and Yards per Punt Return. Irvin would later become a permanent fixture at Cornerback where he would be named a Pro Bowler in both 1985 and 1986 and would earn his second First Team All-Pro in the latter year, though this time at his natural position of Cornerback. Irvin would pick off opposing QBs 34 times running five of them back for a Touchdown.
A member of the Los Angeles Rams for eight seasons, Isiah Robertson got off to an incredible start as the 10th overall pick in 1971 would promptly win the Defensive Rookie of the Year. Robertson, who was a Pro Bowler as a rookie, went on a spectacular run in the mid-'70s would earn Pro Bowl honors annually from 1973 to 1977 and was named an All-Pro in all of those seasons with two First Team and three Second Team accolades.
Standing at 6' 7", Lamar Lundy might have been the most imposing figure of the Rams' famed "Fearsome Foursome" and was part of a revolution of sorts that helped to glorify modern defense. The two-sport athlete (he was also a basketball player) was the first black player to receive an athletic scholarship at the University of Purdue, and he opted for a career in Pro Football much to the delight of Los Angeles Rams fans.