S · Los Angeles Rams · week 6 vs Arizona Cardinals · Sun Oct 18 · 4:05 PM ET
Kam Curl
ROLE a starter
CLASS 2020 · R7 P216
EXP 6 seasons
AGE 25-28
DEPTH SS1
As of week 6, Kam Curl was an SAF for LA, age 27.5, 6 seasons of experience, drafted in round 7. In 2026 through week 5 he was listed at depth rank 1 on his club's depth chart; he had played 5 games on 89% of snaps. Before 2026 he played 99 games (postseason included) over 6 seasons. His injury history held 7 episodes (ankle 3, hand 1, illness 1), 1 of them reaching OUT, 2 a repeat of an earlier site; the last was an ankle injury in 2026 week 2.
The full read
How our call moved this week
100500
his club's word: Questionable55%55%55%55%55%55%
Sat 2:02 AM ETSun 12:02 PM ET
our call, P(plays)
club report (public)
55% COIN FLIP → 55% COIN FLIP
Every call we wrote for him this week, earliest first, as written.
In short
Kam Curl is a starter at strong safety for LA — 100% of the snaps in his best week of 6. He has an ankle injury. This week he practised limited, then did not practise. His team has listed him Questionable.
The reader concurs · grade C
P1 is the only written evidence and it corroborates rather than contradicts the dossier: the Rams 'added safety Kam Curl to the practice report Thursday' and 'He was limited due to an ankle injury' (P1), which matches the measured Thu-Limited / Fri-DNP worsening shape and the Questionable designation. P1 also indicates the ankle is new and practice-acquired rather than chronic, and it explicitly notes McVay 'doesn't hold a news conference again until Friday' (P1), so no club or coach statement exists in the record that would override the model's PLAY call. Nothing in P1 says he was ruled out or doubtful for Sunday, so there is no prose basis to flip the call, though the thin single-source record and the Friday DNP keep this near a coin flip. It would need to know: Sean McVay's Friday 16 Oct news conference remarks on Curl's ankle — whether the Friday DNP was rest/precautionary or an inability to go; The Rams' official final game-status designation for Curl (Questionable/Doubtful/Out) filed Fri 16 or Sat 17 Oct for the Sun 18 Oct game vs. opponent; Saturday 17 Oct beat reports on whether Quentin Lake or another reserve safety took first-team safety reps in Curl's place; Any Rams practice-squad safety elevation announced Sat 17 Oct; Sunday 18 Oct inactives list for the Rams
What the read cites
What was reported
Source
1
“The Rams added safety Kam Curl to the practice report Thursday. He was limited due to an ankle injury.”
Pro Football Talk · 2026-10-15
2
“It indicates Curl injured his ankle during practice, but coach Sean McVay doesn't hold a news conference again until Friday.”
Pro Football Talk · 2026-10-15
6versions this week
9average, every player
29most for one player
How the call moved
COIN FLIP since Sat Oct 17 · 2:16 AM ET · 38 h before kickoff · after the club said it (0 h). Biggest move: 55% → 55%, Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET to Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET, with no club report in between.
His team's word: Questionable
This is the TEAM'S OWN ANNOUNCEMENT, not a reading of ours. His team filed him on the injury report and we are restating it so the record is complete. There is nothing early about repeating an announcement — what we say ahead of one is on the week's page. Source: his team's published inactive list, on the day.
Practice this week
Fri
Thu
DNPdated Fri Oct 16
LPdated Fri Oct 16
Shape of the week: worsening. Only days the publisher dated are shown; a day we could not date is left out until the nightly sweep stamps it. The shape is a fact, not a forecast.
Head start
His club's word
Kickoff
Stats, with ranges — dot = his average, bar = his game range
Snap share90.8% range 46–100
wk 1–6 · 6 games
Snaps by week — his larger of the offence and defence share
46%wk 1
100%wk 2
99%wk 3
100%wk 4
100%wk 5
100%wk 6
Missed while on the injury report
Season
Weeks on the report
Missed while listed
2026
2
0
Only the weeks he was on the injury report with a recorded result — not every game of his career.
Medical history
When
Injury
Weeks on a report
Worst status
2026 · wk 6
ankle
1
Questionable
2026 · wk 2
ankle
1
—
2024 · wk 9
knee
3
Questionable
2023 · wk 18
quad
1
Questionable
2023 · wk 7
ankle
1
—
2023 · wk 3
illness
1
Questionable
2022 · wk 16
ankle
3
Questionable
2022 · wk 1
hand
3
Out
Every injury episode on file for him, as the record holds it.
Injury history by season · 8 episodes · 14 weeks on a report · same site more than once: ankle ×4
2022
ankle · 3whand · 3w
2023
quad · 1wankle · 1willness · 1w
2024
knee · 3w
2026
ankle · 1wankle · 1w
Weeks 1–18
ruled out
questionable
listed, and played
Each bar is one episode: the week it began and how many weeks he was on a report, coloured by the worst status.
Our past calls vs what happened
Wk 6PLAY 55% ✓ rightafter his team's announcement; played
Season on him: 1 of 1 graded call of ours right. Graded by the record: right or a miss against whether he played. A week we did not call, or his club's own word, is not graded.
The rest of his team's report this week
Player
Pos
Practice
Whose word
Call
Chance he plays
Band
Tyler Higbee
TE
DNP
ours
PLAY
96%
EXPECTED
Myles Garrett
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Alex Bachman
WR
FULL
ours
PLAY
94%
EXPECTED
Bill Murray
G
UNK
team's word
—
Larrell Murchison
DT
UNK
team's word
—
Colby Parkinson
TE
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Tutu Atwell
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Keir Thomas
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Trent McDuffie
CB
DNP
team's word
Questionable
Ronnie Rivers
RB
UNK
team's word
—
Nate Landman
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Davis Allen
TE
LTD
ours
PLAY
85%
LIKELY
Byron Young
LB
DNP
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Josh Wallace
CB
FULL
ours
PLAY
89%
EXPECTED
Omar Speights
LB
FULL
ours
PLAY
99%
EXPECTED
Justin Dedich
OL
UNK
team's word
—
Terrance Ferguson
TE
UNK
team's word
—
Keagen Trost
T
FULL
team's word
—
CJ Daniels
WR
UNK
team's word
—
Matthew Caldwell
QB
UNK
team's word
—
Eddie Walls III
LB
UNK
team's word
—
Ty Simpson
QB
UNK
team's word
—
The model reads the room: who else is out shifts what his own designation is worth.
The data behind this page — the timeline in words, every call and week on record, about him, and what this page does not show
Profile — as of week 6
Role
SAF1 · 89% snaps
Season
2026 · 5 games through wk 5
Career
6 seasons · 99 games before 2026
Injuries
7 episodes · last: ankle, 2026 wk 2
Bio
age 27.5 · 6 seasons' experience · drafted round 7
Where the profile comes from
Built from: honors.db; nflverse injuries_2026.csv; medical.db; nflverse players.csv; profile.db; nflverse roster_2026.csv; nflverse roster_weekly_2026.csv; nflverse snap_counts_2026.csv; nflverse stats_player_week_2026.csv. Every number in it is one those sources hold.
a starter at strong safety — 100% of the snaps in his best week of 6
Listed on the depth chart
first at strong safety
Snaps played
91% a week on average over 6 weeks, 100% at his highest, 3% on special teams
Build
6 ft 2 in · 207 lb
College
Arkansas
Drafted
2020, round 7 pick 216, by WAS
Age
25-28 at the season's start
Experience
6 seasons
When this call was made, and when the world knew
Team reportHis team listed him Questionable.
PublicHis team's word was public as soon as it was filed.
KickoffKickoff.
How our call moved, earliest first
When
Lead
Call
Chance he plays
Band
On what
Sat Oct 17 · 2:16 AM ET
38 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 7:02 AM ET
33 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 12:02 PM ET
28 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sat Oct 17 · 5:01 PM ET
23 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 7:01 AM ET
9 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 12:02 PM ET
4 h
PLAY
55%
COIN FLIP
after his team's announcement
Sun Oct 18 · 3:01 PM ET
1 h
his team's word
—
—
his team's published inactive list, on the day
6 calls this week, and the call never flipped between PLAY and SIT. Each lead time is the one that call actually had when it was written — never recounted from now. A call that changes is the record working: new evidence arrived and we said so, in public, before the game.
We went and found out more
Rank 1 (listed first on his depth chart), 12 documents deep, because: llm_unsure. Fetched 12 of 12.
His record this season
Wk
Practice
Chance he plays
Call
Source
Played
6
DNP
55%
PLAY
after his team's announcement
yes
A blank in Played is a week not yet settled — never a no.