Rams head coach Sean McVay holds a top-3 spot on the PFF head coach rankings
Sean McVay wasn’t first in PFF’s returning head coach rankings this week, but top-3 isn’t bad for someone who is still in his 30s and has only won a single playoff game in the past three seasons.
McVay ranked third in PFF’s returning head coach rankings behind Andy Reid and Sean Payton. He is ahead of John Harbaugh, Mike Tomlin, Jim Harbaugh, Kyle Shanahan, and Nick Sirianni, the reigning Super Bowl winner who is only eighth.
PFF praised McVay for his ability to adjust on the fly with regards to the run game.
McVay isn’t yet 40 years old but is already entering his ninth season as the Rams’ head coach. Los Angeles has made the postseason in six of the first eight seasons with him at the helm, including a Super Bowl 56 victory over the Bengals. The Rams were the closest team to upending the Eagles in the postseason before their Super Bowl win this past season.
McVay is known as an offensive mastermind, but his adjustments to his rushing attack may be his most impressive feat yet. McVay is a Shanahan disciple, which makes him fluent in outside-zone run schemes. From 2017 to 2022, the Rams ranked second in outside-zone rate. Over the past two seasons, however, they rank just 15th in that category while leading the NFL with their usage of man run schemes. That newfound downhill approach has allowed Los Angeles to sustain the offensive balance needed to be a Super Bowl contender.
In his ninth season, McVay is already the all-time most winningest coach in Rams history with a career record of 80-52. That’s five more wins that John Robinson.
McVay has also won eight playoff games, which is twice as many as second-place Robinson.
No other head coach in Rams history comes close to McVay in the scope of their entire career — Dick Vermeil was magical for a shorter period of time — and even when he’s still among the youngest head coaches in the NFL, almost nobody else in the league comes close to McVay’s value to his team in 2025.