Todd Gurley lobbied McVay to keep RB coach

Todd Gurley's sophomore season was one to forget.

The focus of the Los Angeles Rams' offense regressed from a rookie year in which he surpassed the 1,000-yard rushing mark to 885 yards and six scores. He also averaged 3.2 yards per carry for the year.

The Rams' offense will be different in 2017 under new head coach Sean McVay. However, despite his poor season, Gurley lobbied for the Rams to keep his running backs coach in tow.

On Friday, McVay unveiled his new coaching staff and Skip Peete will in fact continue to lead the team's stable of running backs.

"That morning, before I was getting ready to go sit down with (Peete) ... I got a text saying, 'This is Todd' ... I got a chance to talk to Todd and he explained some of the reasons why he felt so strongly about Coach Peete," McVay told the media.

"When you've got a key player like that, you want to be able to try to demonstrate that you're going to listen to your players, their opinion matters, and somebody of his caliber, the type of guy that he is, very important to us. Definitely it played a factor in why we were able to retain Coach Peete."