Player
Kam Curl
S · Rams
Kam Curl: facts drawn from the play-by-play.
Six straight years as a starting safety. The 2025 season is his career-high tackle total.
TrendKam Curl regular-season production by year
| Year | Team | G | Solo | Asst | Comb | Sacks | PDs | INTs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | WAS | 17 | 62 | 28 | 90 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| 2021 | WAS | 16 | 57 | 37 | 94 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 2022 | WAS | 12 | 54 | 25 | 79 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | WAS | 16 | 67 | 41 | 108 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 2024 | LA | 16 | 45 | 30 | 75 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 2025 | LA | 17 | 75 | 43 | 118 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Combined tackles per season
| Season | Combined tackles |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 90 |
| 2021 | 94 |
| 2022 | 79 |
| 2023 | 108 |
| 2024 | 75 |
| 2025 | 118 |
A 7th-round Washington pick in 2020 who started as a rookie and hasn't stopped. The 75-tackle 2024 looks like a dip but it was Year-1 on a new defense — 2025 in his second Rams season jumped to 118 combined tackles, a career high in his age-26 season.
193 combined tackles across 2024-25 — top-10 among NFL safeties.
RareTop NFL safety tackle producers, 2024-25
| Safety | Team | Comb | Solo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budda Baker | ARI | 270 | 139 |
| Nick Cross | IND | 251 | 144 |
| Jeremy Chinn | WAS | 222 | 127 |
| Kevin Byard | CHI | 210 | 128 |
| Kyle Hamilton | BAL | 205 | 129 |
| Jessie Bates | ATL | 195 | 114 |
| Tre'von Moehrig | CAR | 195 | 117 |
| Kam Curl | LA | 193 | 120 |
| Grant Delpit | CLE | 189 | 106 |
| Xavier McKinney | GB | 188 | 108 |
193 combined / 120 solo tackles over 2024-25 is firmly in the safety top-10 club. The leaderboard is loaded with first- and second-round picks (Baker, Hamilton, Bates, McKinney, Delpit). Curl is the only 7th-rounder in the group.
He plays linebacker on a third of his stat snaps — most safeties don't even line up there.
Anomaly2025 Curl role mix from play_participants
| Role | Snaps with action |
|---|---|
| Tackle | 75 |
| Tackle assist | 43 |
| Pass defense | 5 |
| Tackle for loss | 2 |
| Sack | 2 |
| QB hit | 2 |
| Forced fumble | 1 |
That's the role mix of a strong safety / nickel SLB hybrid — 2 sacks + 2 QB hits + 2 TFL on the same chart as 118 tackles. Most pure deep safeties cluster around tackle + pass-defense and never show up in the sack/QB-hit columns. Curl's listed at 6'2" 197 but plays bigger because the Rams use him in the box on early downs.
His Washington years averaged 92 tackles. His Rams years average 96. The defense changed; the production didn't.
ComparisonProduction by franchise
| Team | Seasons | G | Comb | Per G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 4 | 61 | 371 | 6.1 |
| LA Rams | 2 | 33 | 193 | 5.8 |
Per-game production is essentially identical across two franchises. Most safeties dip when they leave a familiar defensive scheme; Curl walked from Jack Del Rio's Washington defense into Chris Shula's Rams system and hit the same numbers. The portability is the value — he's not scheme-dependent.
His 2023 Washington season was a 108-tackle, 5-PD year — and then he hit free agency.
MilestonePer-game tackle pace across career
| Season | Combined tackles per game |
|---|---|
| 5.3 | 5.3 |
| 5.9 | 5.9 |
| 6.6 | 6.6 |
| 6.8 | 6.8 |
| 4.7 | 4.7 |
| 6.9 | 6.9 |
His Washington walk year (2023) was a career-high in tackles per game at the time. The 2024 dip (4.7) made him look like a system replaceable, but 2025 set a new career-high (6.9 per game) — the inverse of the typical second-team safety arc.
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