Well full scale OL acquisition mode can include several types of actions at once.
* draft developmental guys rounds 3-6
* pick up young players other teams cut (I call these “ronin”)…like Barksdale and Blythe
* UDFAs
* older veteran cast-offs, like Garrett Reynolds was
* budget market FAs
You need that first round for a left oT though.
Rams 99/2000 OL:
Pace: Rams high 1st round pick (in case you didn’t know that)
Nutten: originally a Buffalo 7th rounder, with the Rams a “ronin” pick-up in his 4th year
Gruttadauria: originally a Dallas UDFA, with the Rams a “ronin” pick-up
McCollum: originally a New Orleans UDFA, bargain free agent Saints didn’t re-sign
Timmerman: originally a Green Bay 7th round pick, with the Rams a high-market free agent
Miller: Rams 5th round pick
Lots of ways to build an OL.
Counting just how they were acquired by their first teams: that’s a 5th rounder, 2 7th rounders, 2 UDFAs, and the first pick in the 1997 draft.
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Agamemnon
