The Facts: As Super Bowl LIII crawls closer, the questions continue to persist regarding Gurley's usage in the biggest game of his career. The running back touched the ball just five times in the NFC Championship Game for 13 total yards, both career lows. The NFL Offensive Player of the Year candidate attributed the poor performance to his own "sorry" play after two drops and a big negative-yardage run, not a lingering knee injury. On Tuesday, coach Sean McVay again took the blame for not getting the running back more involved in the offense, attributing it to play selection, and vowed to get Gurley the rock in Sunday's Super Bowl showdown versus the New England Patriots.

Diehards Line: "I think what says as much about Todd as anything, is the way he handled it right after," McVay said. "And I think a large part of specifically when you talk about last week's game was a result of some of the things in terms of the play selection. I've got to do a much better job for Todd to get him opportunities to get him going. ... Fully expect him to be the Todd Gurley we all know and he's going to be a big part of this game." The player the Rams know is the touchdown demon and reigning Offensive Player of the Year, who galloped for 1,251 yards and 17 rushing scores in 14 regular season games before a knee injury prematurely curtailed his December and C.J. Anderson came on board and excelled. ... Now, the question for McVay heading into Super Sunday is whether his backfield will balance out like it did in a domineering performance against the Dallas Cowboys, or swing toward one RB, as it did against the New Orleans Saints.