Tyler Higbee shares his thoughts on the Rams' TE room in 2025
The Los Angeles Rams have a crowded tight end room in 2025.
Not only is Tyler Higbee fully recovered from the 2023 ACL injury that sidelined him for most of the 2024 season, but the Rams also drafted Terrance Ferguson with the No. 46 overall pick. Backups Colby Parkinson and Davis Allen round out the positional group.
While Higbee is poised to be the team's Week 1 starter, the veteran recognized how much deeper the group is than in year's past.
'It's honestly one of the best I've been a part of, I think, since I've been here," Higbee said during an interview with the team website this week. "Just top to bottom, we've got a lot of depth. I think it might allow us to do some things, get some more 12 [personnel] on the field.'
He didn't directly address the elephant in the room, though, that Ferguson could supplant him at any point in the season.
Ferguson is 10 years younger than Higbee, doesn't have a serious injury history and is almost identical in size. The two could certainly add different layers to the offense (the 12 personnel grouping Higbee mentioned, for one), but Sean McVay will eventually want to incorporate Ferguson into the offense more and more. That could be phasing Higbee out sooner rather than later.
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