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Todd Gurley Named 2015-16 NFL Offensive Rookie Of The Year

By Keith Rivas

Dec 17, 2015 St. Louis, MO, USA; St. Louis Rams running back Todd Gurley (30) against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Edward Jones Dome. The Rams won 31-23. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 17, 2015 St. Louis, MO, USA; St. Louis Rams running back Todd Gurley (30) against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Edward Jones Dome. The Rams won 31-23. Mandatory Credit: Aaron Doster-USA TODAY Sports /
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Todd Gurley beat out Jameis Winston, Amari Cooper, and others for the honor.

While the Los Angeles Rams continue to try and figure out their quarterback situation as they are welcomed back to Southern California, one aspect of their game they won’t have to worry about much at all is that of the running back.

Rams running back and rookie Todd Gurley won the NFL award for rookie of the year after putting up stellar numbers throughout this past season.

Others up for consideration for the award included Oakland’s Amari Cooper, Tampa Bay’s Jameis Winston, Seattle’s Tyler Lockett, and Arizona’s David Johnson.

Gurley, Winston, and Cooper were voted the top three, with Cooper receiving four votes and Winston getting 17.

Gurley got 27 votes.

When factored in with how excited Gurley seemed to be about moving to Los Angeles in the first place, it’s hard to imagine that life is bad at the moment for the former Georgia Bulldogs star.

Gurley will easily be the biggest name from the Rams roster this next season and, since they’ll be in Los Angeles and returning to their roots, a sophomore season will mean only better things for him.

Amassing 1,106 total yards and scoring ten touchdowns says a lot about how far Gurley has come and is willing to excel in the years ahead.

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    • Thankfully for Los Angeles, we’ve only gotten the blessing of seeing him for his first season, with the better part of his career still well ahead of him.

    If anything, making sure he secures the ball, especially on longer runs, will be the key to making him eventually virtually unstoppable to most, if not all, defenses across the NFL.

    Gurley had three fumbles this year, but only lost one of them — so the ball security isn’t as much of an issue as it might be for other rookie stars.

    We’ve even seen the fumbling scenarios get to the best in the business like Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson, who’s late fumble, in part, cost the Vikings a home playoff win against the Seattle Seahawks.

    Lastly, in a game that has apparently become so dependent on big passing attacks or wide receiver cores that go for long throws, Gurley’s strength, agility, and monster-like attitude and ambition would make him the perfect successor to the role if Marshawn Lynch were to call it quits.

    You don’t see that kind of slipper fit that often, so you know that he’s a one-of-a-kind player in the league by far.

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