could all these things happen at the same time?

InvaderRam wrote:

1. tavon austin becomes more than just a multipurpose weapon and develops as a wide receiver.
2. todd gurley’s knee is one year healthier and stronger and he becomes that much more explosive.
3. robert quinn come back healthy.
4. alec ogletree comes back healthy and shows leadership at the middle linebacker position.
5. greg robinson finally puts it all together and becomes a good to very good left tackle.
6. rob havenstein builds off his rookie year and becomes a very good to great right tackle.
7. rodger saffold stays healthy.
8. one of higbee, cooper, or thomas has a surprise rookie year and can contribute 700-800 yards receiving.
9. ej gaines comes back healthy and shows the consistency that jenkins wasn’t always capable of.
10. rams find a sleeper among the udfa’s to become the rams’ starting free safety.
11. goff, having help in the backfield in the form of gurley as well as a stable offensive line, shows enough ability as a rookie to spread the ball around and keep defenses from keying in on gurley.

is this too much to ask?

A lot of those are very plausible.

The ones I take as less plausible are numbers 7 and 10.

7 doesn’t matter because they have 4 guards (Reynolds, Saffold, Brown, Wichman).

10? I can’t see GW putting the FS duties on a rookie. But they do have more veteran candidates ahead of the rookies anyway…and it’s helped by the fact that a GW free safety isn’t a classic centerfielder. He’s more of a deep last line of defense and has to read and tackle. They have possibly 4 candidates for that: Bryant, Alexander, C.Davis, and Joyner.

IMO if Randolph comes through (and I wouldn’t bet against it) it will be next year. I like him as much as you do btw.

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