Walters: With pick 20, Rams take…

Interesting idea.

Picking a more developmental qb later in round 1 (or round 2) sounds about right.

Here’s what they would have around or after the draft:

1. Either they re-sign Hill or they acquire a vet in another way–free agency, low-cost trade.

2. Either they draft a guy like Cook or add another young qb either though free agency or a trade. If they already have taken care of #1, then, this has to be a more developmental guy. Not talking about signing Wilson away from Seattle or anything like that.

3. Bradford works on coming back, and is part of the mix. If he can go he’s potentially the starter, or maybe it takes more time and he sits for a while, or maybe they determine he can’t go.

4. They sort out who they have among the following 3: Davis, Kennum, Gilbert. As I said before, the Rams have never carried 4 (total) qbs before. They are clearly stocking up.

This team is reaching the point Seattle was when they drafted Wilson or SF was when they drafted CK. They are a developed team that can either add a qb to a solid mix–which ALWAYS makes it easier on the qb–or they are “there” already and Bradford is back (again on a much more solid team than he’s ever been on).

I have no interest in the “trade up for a big-name phenom or hope for a bad record to draft same” approach to this. For one thing, I see them picking between 14 and 20. Around there, in that area.

Given that, when asked, which options should the Rams explore to take care of the qb spot? I answer “all of them at once…except trying to draft Luck in a year when there is no Andrew Luck.”