Rams Football Is Ready To Knock Some Heads Together
With returning defensive stars and a new, former SEC signal caller in tow, the Rams 22 seem poised for a big season.
The Rams upped their firepower this offseason after a season that found them about average on both sides of the ball.
City College Football is looking to improve on a promising 2025 in which they went 7-4, making the Northern California regional playoffs. The season ended in heartbreak, however, as an injury-riddled City College squad fell 56-38 to Fresno City College.
This is a new season though, and the Rams have plenty to be excited about.
Former Ole Miss quarterback Braeden Waterman will be under center for the Rams in his first season at the Juco level, leading an offense that also features former Colorado State sophomore Landon Bell, who can line up at wide receiver or tight end.
Waterman said he wants to “win some football games, go to the playoffs, win a championship.”
“I think the obvious adjustment was to recruit more players [this season],” Eduardo Nuño, Head Coach of the Rams, said.
The team had “four or five” starters on defense out going into the playoff game in the previous season and Nuño said it “really affected” their performance and that the team “couldn’t really stop Fresno.”
“The biggest thing to come out of it was that we needed more depth, and be able to absorb an injury here and there, whether it’s late in the season or the beginning, so that we can still perform at a high level,” Nuño said.
On defense, sophomore edge rushers Kam’ron Bizor and Mwandishi “Junior” Adams will anchor a unit looking to build on a solid 2025 season. The Rams ranked 29th among 65 teams in the 3C2A in points allowed last season.
Bizor and Adams recorded 5.0 and 4.0 sacks, respectively, over the course of last year’s campaign, and they seem poised to top that mark coming into this year.
“I’m [focused] on handling my responsibilities, my job, and making big plays every game,” Adams said.
Preseason training camp is an important event for any sports team, at any level.
It, not only prepares the team for the games ahead, but also brings the players together as a team.
“It’s not about the X’s and O’s, it’s about the Jimmies and Joes…continuing to set the culture and standard for what we want to accomplish and how we work as a team,” Nuño said.
“Putting a bunch of kids from different places together, and molding them into a team, it takes time. It’s always a constant work in progress.”
Nuño is entering his 34th season coaching for the Rams in some capacity, having previously been offensive line coach before ascending to Head coach in 2024. He will be looking to reinvigorate an offense that coincidentally was also 29th out of 65 teams in points scored.
“The focus is Sacramento. There’s nothing more important than the game ahead of us…One week at a time. We can’t get ahead of ourselves. There’s some changes to the conference, so it’ll be interesting to play some of the teams that are coming in.” Nuño said.
The Rams will be taking on the Sacramento City College Panthers in their first game of the season, which kicks off at 1:00 PM on August 29, 2026, at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento.
