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Jim Thomas on The Rams and 2015 Draft

Brendan Marks posted on January 02, 2015

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Rams beat writer Jim Thomas joined The Ryan Kelley Morning After on Friday and discussed some of the top prospects in April’s NLF Draft. He also gave his early opinion on what he believes the Rams will do in the off-season to bolster the roster.

Have a pulse on what the Rams are thinking? In general, it’s not considered nearly as good of a draft as it was last year. A guy like (Marcus Roberson), Les Snead thought it most years he’d be a fifth-round draft pick. But last year’s draft was so deep he went undrafted. Jeff Fisher said one of the reasons they were willing to give up mid-to-late round picks for (safety Mark Barron), they were factoring in the draft.

On quarterbacks: Most people think that if (Jameis) Winston and (Marcus) Mariotta are gone, you should wait for the second round.

On Rams: Who knows how they feel yet? I don’t even know if they’ve cut down their pool of draft prospects yet. They start out with maybe 1,500 guys and wittle the list down. They’re still pretty early in the process.

On Rams’ off-season priority: Let’s just say they stay at (the 10th pick). We’ve seen this lately where people that were tackles in college come in and play guard. Maybe the Rams could find something like that at 10 overall. There’s no doubt they need help at the interior of the line. Say they did something like that in the first round, then look for a quarterback in round two, round three. That would seem the place to pick one of those guys.