The Los Angeles Rams host the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium in Week 8, and the experts are nearly unanimous on who they expect to win the battle of L.A.
Of the 52 picks across USA Today, Bleacher Report, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, CBS Sports, The Athletic and NFL.com, 47 have the Rams winning. The only five picking the Chargers are all from Bleacher Report.
The Rams are coming off a 35-21 win over the Raiders in Week 7, which snapped a two-game losing streak after back-to-back defeats to the Bills and Cardinals. Kyren Williams and Blake Corum combined for 192 rushing yards and two touchdowns in Week 7, and Matthew Stafford threw three touchdown passes.
A win Sunday would give Los Angeles back-to-back victories for the first time this season
and set them up nicely for the second half of the year.
Here is how the experts see Sunday’s game:
USA Today
- Jarrett Bell: Rams
- Nick Brinkerhoff: Rams
- Chris Bumbaca: Rams
- Nate Davis: Rams
- Adam Kaufman: Rams
- Mike Middlehurst-Schwartz: Rams
Bleacher Report
- Gary Davenport: Chargers
- Brad Gagnon: Chargers
- Ian Hanford: Chargers
- Kris Knox: Rams
- Moe Moton: Chargers
- Wes O’Donnell: Chargers
- Brent Sobleski: Rams
Sports Illustrated
- Albert Breer: Rams
- Eva Geitheim: Rams
- Mitch Goldich: Rams
- Mike Kadlick: Rams
- Gilberto Manzano: Rams
- Conor Orr: Rams
- John Pluym: Rams
- Matt Verderame: Rams
ESPN
- Matt Bowen: Rams
- Mike Clay: Rams
- Jeremy Fowler: Rams
- Dan Graziano: Rams
- Kalyn Kahler: Rams
- Pamela Maldonado: Rams
- Eric Moody: Rams
- Jason Reid: Rams
- Ben Solak: Rams
- Lindsey Thiry: Rams
- Seth Wickersham: Rams
CBS Sports
- Pete Prisco: Rams
- Jared Dubin: Rams
- Ryan Wilson: Rams
- John Breech: Rams
- Tyler Sullivan: Rams
- Dave Richard: Rams
- Jamey Eisenberg: Rams
The Athletic
- Zach Berman: Rams
- Jon Greenberg: Rams
- Chad Graff: Rams
- Larry Holder: Rams
- Josh Kendall: Rams
- Steven Louis Goldstein: Rams
- Austin Mock: Rams
- Nick Kosmider: Rams
NFL.com
- Jeremy Bergman: Rams
- Brooke Cersosimo: Rams
- Gennaro Filice: Rams
- Bobby Kownack: Rams
- Dan Parr: Rams
This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Experts overwhelmingly favor Rams over winless Chargers in Week 8
