can/should/will the Rams keep Tru? …some opinions

from PFF: 5 FREE AGENTS ABOUT TO GET OVERPAID

https://www.profootballfocus.com/pro-5-free-agents-about-to-get-overpaid/?utm_content=buffer037c6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=nfl

Which 2017 free agents are about to receive big pad-days, despite the questions marks they bring to the table?

Every year there are players who hit the open market and end up getting dramatically overpaid, costing teams in the long run and never justifying the dollar figure that gets attached to them. Here are a group of players likely to fit that billing in 2017.

5. Trumaine Johnson, CB, Los Angeles Rams

The league has a love affair at the moment with big, tall, long cornerbacks—the type of athletes that can at least attempt to go one-on-one with players like Julio Jones athletically and live to tell the tale. Trumaine Johnson, at 6-foot-2 and 208 pounds, has that prototypical size and length, but remains an inconsistent player on the field. At his best, he looks like a player worthy of those measurables, but that guy doesn’t appear on tape every week of the season, and in 2016, he allowed four touchdowns while picking off just one pass and breaking up another six. He has only allowed fewer than 60 percent of the passes thrown his way to be caught once in a season, and his career mark in that statistic is 61.2 percent, which would have ranked 61st in the NFL this season.

Agamemnon wrote:

I hope we have enough draft picks to find some good DBs.

I don;t know if you;ve been reading up on the draft yet.

Deep deep draft both at safety and corner.

link: http://theramshuddle.com/topic/2017-draft-defined-by-depth/

I don’t know whether they will keep Johnson, or which way the advantage lies. But Phillips is used to taking over defenses and converting them quickly based mostly on what is already there. That’s a consideration.

I think the Rams have a deep but young secondary with or without Johnson. I doubt they would bring in an expensive FA if they let Johnson go. I count Joyner as a great slot corner/nickel safety and they played better with him in there than when he wasn’t. To me Alexander would be fine at SS…so I don;t know if they need McDonald.

Surprisingly they actually have a lot at corner—Gaines, Hill, Countess, Jordan, Peterson, Short—and that was under a coach who has always been good at developing DBs (Wms of course) and as I said before this is a crazy deep draft for CBs and safeties, particularly free safeties.

So, while we don’t know yet at this point exactly what they will have, IMO it;s a stronger position than I think many people give it credit for being.
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