LOS ANGELES -- After the Los Angeles Rams lost Davante Adams for six to 10 weeks with a hamstring injury, quarterback Matthew Stafford was clear it would take a team effort to replace the wide receiver.
"You're not going to one-for-one sub a guy that's going to be wearing a gold jacket one day," Stafford said.
In Sunday's 35-21 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders, that looked like leaning on the running game, something the Rams have struggled to find consistently in this season.
In the game, the Rams -- led by running backs Kyren Williams and Blake Corum -- rushed for a season-high 201 rushing yards and two touchdowns. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, the Rams' 60.0% rushing success rate was a season high and the fourth highest by a team in a game this season.
"It was beautiful," Corum said of the success the Rams were able to have on the ground in Week 7. "I feel like when you're able to run, that's how you break their will."
The Rams will attempt to continue that success on Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers (4:05 p.m, Fox). The Chargers had a Week 7 bye, but in their Week 6 loss to Kansas City, Chiefs running back Kenneth Walker III ran for 128 yards and two touchdowns on 19 carries, forcing seven missed tackles for 60 yards and both scores.
While Rams head coach Sean McVay entered the season knowing he wanted to share the load at the position between Williams and Corum, this was the closest the Rams have come. Part of that earlier in the season had to do with the game script. After the Rams' Week 6 loss to the Arizona Cardinals, a game in which quarterback Matthew Stafford attempted 33 passes and Los Angeles ran the ball 20 times, McVay said, "I would like to be more balanced, no question about it."
"Any good offense that we've had here that I've been a part of, you have to be able to do both," McVay said on Sunday. "You have to be able to have balance, or you at least have to have the threat of if they overcommit to something, then you have to be able to make them pay."
Williams played 36 (52.9%) of the Rams' offensive snaps on Sunday and ran for 99 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries. Corum played 29 (42.6%) offensive snaps, running for 93 yards and a touchdown on 17 carries. He also had a 43-yard run erased by a phantom face mask penalty.
"When you're able to [run the ball well], you're not in a bunch of bad spots on second down and on third down and a lot of things can come off of that," McVay said. "I thought that was the first game that was reflected. We were able to really do some of the things that I've been in alignment with when we've been able to operate at a pretty decent clip offensively.
"Both Blake and Kyren did a great job. I think to be able to get them both involved and both allow them to get the amount of touches that they did and really for us to get the amount of rushes off while still being able to be efficient."
In an interview on "The Pat McAfee Show" on Monday, Stafford joked that sometimes when he gets into the huddle, "I don't know which one of them is in the damn game."
"I haven't had a tandem like this where they both can do everything," Stafford said. "You usually have one big guy, one small guy, a big slow guy that can run over people and a small fast guy that can run around people.
"And this is a really unique instance in which we can call our entire offense with both those guys in the game and not bat an eye."
McVay said Monday that while he thinks Williams and Corum are "similar in stature," there is a difference in their run style that makes opponents have to defend different things.
"I think they both have the ability to run all the types of runs that we're activating and be factors in the pass game," McVay said.
The head coach called the pair "nice compliments off of one another" and said, "I think as you start to see each of them get opportunities in the game, I think they really play off of one another."
"The benefit is not necessarily feeling like you can't call certain things," McVay said. "I think as a playcaller, the best thing is you just call the plays. It's not like I have a specific menu of plays for Blake or for Kyren or vice versa. That's where we're able to rotate those guys accordingly.
"I think they both do some things really well. They're both really good, productive, all-purpose types of backs. I think there is a play style that's a little bit different that makes it more challenging on a defense without hindering our ability to run everything we want to run with either one of them in the game."
And while the running backs remain competitive with each other, Corum said he and Wiliams feed off of the success each other has on the field.
"Being able to have a partner back there like Kyren just makes you want to go harder," Corum said. "Seeing him do some things that he does on the field, it's just like, 'All right, let me go do it.' And so I feel like we just make each other proud, and we feed off each other's energy, and it's really good."