The Rams will move forward with their Sean McVay-Les Snead partnership for the foreseeable future. Los Angeles announced on Monday the team’s head coach and general manager have each signed an extension. 
McVay’s future has been a talking point during recent years with the possibility of a pause from coaching being floated on multiple occasions. Despite recently during 40, he is already a veteran of nine years as an NFL head coach. That stretch has brought about plenty of success for the Rams, and expectations will remain high moving forward.
Snead has been in place since 2012. Each of his first five years in the role of GM produced a losing record, but the McVay hire proved to be a turning point. The Rams have finished above .500 all but once since 2017. During that stretch, they have also reached a pair of Super Bowls, winning one. The highly effective tandem will, to no surprise, remain intact for years to come.
Details on both deals were not disclosed. Nevertheless, Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic reports the joint extensions have the same length. Given the success both McVay and Snead have enjoyed, their respective job securities are certainly not in doubt. Both can be expected to remain in place until they wish to depart the organization.
“As we enter their 10th season together, it is only fitting to reflect on the tremendous success Sean and Les have brought to this franchise, and the indelible impact they have made on Los Angeles and the NFL,” a statement from owner Stan Kroenke reads in part. “They continue to embody the standard of this franchise to compete for championships, consistently delivering a product that our fans and city can be proud of… We are thrilled they will be leading the Los Angeles Rams for years to come.”
Snead’s most recent extension came in September 2022. The 55-year-old worked his way through the scouting ranks early in his NFL career before leading the Falcons’ player personnel department from 2009-11. Snead was then hired as the Rams’ GM, and he is now the league’s sixth-longest tenured staffer in that position. He is in line to continue climbing the list in that regard.
McVay has cemented his status as one of the league’s top offensive minds over the course of his HC tenure. The Rams have posted double digit wins seven times under McVay, who has helped develop several members of his staff on their way to head coaching gigs of their own. The latest example in that regard is Mike LaFleur, who parlayed his OC tenure in Los Angeles into the Cardinals’ head coaching position. With his latest contract now worked out, McVay’s attention will turn to finding a LaFleur replacement.
The Rams were seen by many as a serious Super Bowl contender throughout the 2025 campaign, one which yielded a 12-5 record. Los Angeles edged Carolina on the road in the wild-card round before winning in overtime in Chicago one week later. That set up a rematch with the division rival Seahawks in the NFC title game. Seattle secured a 31-27 victory, ending the Rams’ season. The team has not waited long to make a new commitment to its HC-GM pair.
McVay and Snead have combined to win 102 regular season and playoff games during their time together. That total is second to only Andy Reid and Brett Veach (Chiefs) for active head coach-general manager tandems. Adding further to that total will be the expectation for all involved moving forward.
For now, the future of quarterback Matthew Stafford is unclear. The MVP finalist has not yet decided if he will continue playing in 2026, and losing him to retirement would of course deal a blow to Los Angeles’ offense. In any case, McVay will continue operating on the sidelines with Snead remaining in place in the front office as the Rams look to go one step further next season.
LET’S GO!!
Smart move..Good coach
Best HC in the nfl
Deserves every penny. He’s a goof, but he knows his stuff and his players show up for him.
All this team needs are cornerbacks.
And anything on special teams.
F**k them picks. They should go all in on Fernando. Raiders aren’t 1 QB away from even being .500. Vegas should take the picks, build the roster out this year, & draft a QB next year.
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but McVay carries Snead here. Snead has made some good picks, certainly, but he’s also made some truly bad moves (getting shut down by the Panthers during his attempt to leverage his franchise’s future for Brian Burns was the biggest favor that anyone could have ever done for a GM). McVay is one of the best coaches in the league, but Snead would probably be thought of MUCH differently in a situation with a lesser coach.
It’s ironic that he’s famous for casting off picks, because he’s actually a lot better at picking players than he is trading for them. Perhaps they could have gotten more than a third for Ramsey, as some have argued. The Ernest Jones trade was pretty bad because the Titans turned around and used him to acquire another starter (presumed starter) in Baker, and added a fourth for him very soon after. Stafford won the Rams a championship, but two firsts PLUS a starting quarterback would have made any other GM pause on the price. Braden Fiske, for his part, is a good player for L.A., but the cost of acquiring him was pretty high. The Rams traded 52, 155, and a second the next year for him. The worst move, by far, was the one I referenced earlier that didn’t (thankfully for the Rams) take place. If it had happened, Snead would have given up two first round picks AND a second for Brian Burns.
So, for those reasons, I think that Snead owes a ton of his success to what McVay does with the team. I certainly give Snead a lot of credit for turning what few picks he’s had into some good players, especially recently. At the same time, though, his unbridled aggression makes him say yes to some up and down moves when making trades. The first five years before McVay were abysmal, and a lot of that is due to Kroenke’s refusal to improve the team in preparation for the move to L.A. long before it had been announced. I get that. But I do also wonder what McVay could do with a more tempered GM who realizes the value of his picks, especially with the success they’ve had at drafting. I can see the responses that it’s worked for the Rams-and mostly, it has. No question. I just see some of these deals or attempted deals and think that they could be even better with a bit more discipline. At least Snead has gotten quite a few good players, and they mostly haven’t been busts-he’s just giving up more than any other team to get them.
Does it not seem inevitable that Josh Allen and Sean McVay will be together at some point in the near future? As a Seahawks fan I am not looking forward to that coupling.