First a qualifier. “Starter” can be a little murky, since McVay may rotate different offensive packages. For example, as good as Reed is, he ranked 5th last year in terms of offensive snaps among all Washington WRs and TEs.
They broke down this way:
Garcon 808
Crowder 784
Jackson 707
Davis 673
Reed 568
While the Rams may not yet even have 5 guys who could compete for snaps like that, that’s at least the ideal standard they are probably shooting for. So I am going to stretch the meaning of “starter” and say if you are top 5 in offensive snaps in the WR/TE group, it counts. Same with a dedicated nickel on defense.
The other qualifier is that I am counting this as being within 3 years. They don’t have to start (or given my qualifications, “start” ) as rookies.
So given all that, how many potential starters do I see in this draft? This is just a way too soon “informal poll” type vote, but I say:
Everett, Kupp, Johnson, Reynolds, Ebukam.
I don’t know if a FB even makes my qualified idea of a “starter.” He may be just a pure role player.
I see Smart and Price as role players. Maybe Smart could be rotational depth and Price a sub-packages guy.
That’s really true, I can see 5 starters coming from this draft.
Of course it’s May 2017 so ask me again in January 2018.
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Agamemnon
