From Jamon Brown to Cody Wichmann to, now, Andrew Donnal

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  • December 20, 2016 at 3:30 pm #61375
    zn
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    Rams’ revolving door at RG swings to Andrew Donnal

    Alden Gonzalez

    http://www.espn.com/blog/los-angeles-rams/post/_/id/32352/rams-revolving-door-at-rg-swings-to-andrew-donnal

    THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — From Jamon Brown to Cody Wichmann to, now, Andrew Donnal. The Los Angeles Rams have used three of their 2015 draft picks at right guard this year, desperate for a spark for an offensive line that has been an unmitigated disaster all season.

    Donnal, a fourth-round pick out of Iowa, had spent the year as a backup at every offensive-line position. But he took 93 percent of the snaps at right guard against the Atlanta Falcons two Sundays ago and every single one of them against the Seattle Seahawks the following Thursday, a game that saw Brown take a very rare snap at fullback.

    Donnal, 6-foot-6 and 316 pounds, has more comfort at right guard than any other position and said he has improved on “a lot of things” since the start of training camp. But the Rams’ offensive line has struggled all year to open up holes for Todd Gurley, who ranks 39th among 42 qualified running backs in yards per carry. And over these last three weeks, No. 1 overall pick Jared Goff has been sacked 11 times.

    “There’s a ton of things we just need to get better at as an offensive line, as a core,” Donnal said. “We need to just be better as a unit. It’s not individuals. We need to be one unit. And that’s really what we need to work on.”

    December 20, 2016 at 3:37 pm #61379
    sanbagger
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    It doesn’t appear as 1 of them has taken the reins. You know the saying…when you have 3 RG’s you don’t have 1.

    December 20, 2016 at 4:06 pm #61380
    wv
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    sanbagger wrote:

    It doesn’t appear as 1 of them has taken the reins. You know the saying…when you have 3 RG’s you don’t have 1.

    Wouldnt you say the Oline has been the biggest disappointment this year?

    A healthy-disaster.

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    December 20, 2016 at 4:14 pm #61383
    sanbagger
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    wv wrote:
    sanbagger wrote:

    It doesn’t appear as 1 of them has taken the reins. You know the saying…when you have 3 RG’s you don’t have 1.

    Wouldnt you say the Oline has been the biggest disappointment this year?

    A healthy-disaster.

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    v

    I would say that

    Grob has had his 3 years and is not a LT IMO
    Saffold was terrible for the first 8-9 games then started to play decent as a guard
    Barnes is a decent back-up emergency starter type of guy
    RG has a rotating door of now 3 guys
    RT I believe has a solid Hav possibly still playing hurt.

    They neglected the O-line in the draft then hit it hard hoping to hit with one. To be fair that was their draft strategy to emphasize an area and hit it multiple times in the draft, and I really kinda like that strategy. I kinda had fun trying to figure out what area they were gonna target.

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