Los Angeles Rams safety Kam Curl made a bold claim about the team's safety positions.
Los Angeles Rams safety Kam Curl is confident in the team's secondary, heading into the 2026 season.
Curl spoke to the media on Monday and expressed that confidence. He even went as far as to say that he and fellow safety Quentin Lake are the best safety tandem in the league.
"We're both versatile," Curl said. "We both make plays in the box, deep balls we're making plays. I feel like we both can do everything and we show that on the field and they brought us both back, so the proof is in the pudding."
Curl is set to enter his third season with the Rams. Although he wasn't that highly touted coming into the league, he has certainly found a home in Los Angeles.
The former seventh-round pick arrived in Los Angeles in 2024, and he's elevated his game year after year. That was the case in 2025, when Curl had the best season of his young career.
Curl finished the second season among all defensive backs in tackles (122) and intercepted two passes in the regular season (one shy of tying his career-high). Overall, Curl had five passes defended, two sacks, two tackles for loss, and two quarterback hits.
He was able to thrive in Chris Shula's defense due to the versatility he displayed. Curl moved around the formation frequently last season, taking 58.6 percent of his snaps at free safety, 26.3 percent in the box ans 10.3 percent in the slot.
Curl is expected to take another leap in the Rams' defense. This offseason, he and the Rams coaching staff spoke on ways he can be used in order to take the overall defense to another level.
Curl has established himself as a focal point on the Rams' defense alongside Lake. Not only that, the Rams bolstered the entire secondary with the additions of Trent McDuffie and Jaylen Watson.
McDuffie and Watson are expected to elevate the Rams' defense as they did the Kansas City Chiefs' defense in their time there. Curl, Lake, McDuffie and Watson will be heavily relied upon, and they are the perfect players to be under Shula's scheme.
Shula's defense relies on disguise, versatility and aggression. For Kurl, he works in the system due to his ability to rotate between deep safety and a box defender (which we witnessed last season) and is a physical tackler who fits the "rally" principles for Shula's defense.
Not only does Curl fit the system, but they are the perfect archetype of players that make it work.