The offense is fine. imo
WRs are good.
Offensive line is fine. We have a lot of youth, but we have a lot of parts too.
QB is fine. Next Year we will need a good backup.
We will need a TE this year or next.
Rb if fine. We can even take a bit of a hit on Gurley.
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Defense is where I have my questions.
Did we do enough on the Dline? Probably not. imo
LBer is a lot of questions marks.
Safety is fine.
CBs worry me, because I don’t trust Peters and Talib is getting old.

https://theathletic.com/952010/2019/05/01/teds-film-room-top-10-fits-between-schemes-and-players-from-the-nfl-draft/

10. Darrell Henderson, RB, Los Angeles Rams (No. 70 overall pick)
Play style: Outside runner, slasher.
Team scheme: Outside zone.

My second favorite running back in the draft after Josh Jacobs was Henderson. In the past two seasons, he averaged a ridiculous 8.9 yards per carry. He’s built low to the ground and slashes with violence. He excels on outside runs, and once he makes his cut, he’s decisive and extremely hard to bring down, which makes him a perfect fit for the Rams’ outside zone system.

Henderson could be a starting back for a lot of teams, but with the health of Todd Gurley in question, he’ll provide the Rams with important depth and another back to carry the load in their run-heavy attack. Additionally, he’s an effective receiver who accumulated 758 receiving yards in three years at Memphis. This will allow Sean McVay to use him in the passing game similarly to the way Gurley is deployed. He could challenge for 800 all-purpose yards as the No. 2 back in Los Angeles.

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Rams third-round pick Darren Henderson excels on outside runs, and once he makes his cut, he’s extremely hard to bring down, making him a perfect fit for Sean McVay's outside zone system.

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2019 NFL Draft review: Again, Rams succeed in exploiting middle rounds

2019 NFL Draft review: Again, Rams succeed in exploiting middle rounds

By Ryan Kartje | rkartje@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2019 at 6:51 pm | UPDATED: April 28, 2019 at 11:37 am

THOUSAND OAKS – Here they were again, wading through the middle rounds, scraping up value wherever they could find it. An All-American safety with a slow 40 time. An All-Pac-12 nose tackle with iffy measurables. An offensive lineman who struggled through injury. An athletic linebacker who’d once been expelled.

Over the first two drafts of Coach Sean McVay’s tenure, when a series of big trades left them barren of picks, this value shopping approach to the draft had become the Rams’ standard out of necessity. But this time, armed with a first-round pick for the first draft in three years, they’d arrived at this strategy by choice.

And who could blame them? They’d found gem after gem in the uncertain muck of the draft’s middle rounds, mining for prospects who might’ve been mistakenly undervalued, for one reason or another. All seven of the third- and fourth-round picks from McVay’s first two drafts are expected to play major roles next season, and by any measure, that’s a staggering rate of success.

“You can always go back to John Johnson and Cooper Kupp,” Rams general manager Les Snead said on Saturday, the final day of the draft. “They didn’t test well, but we thought they were really good at football. It worked out.”

Only time will tell if they’ve found a similar treasure trove in the middle rounds of this draft. The Rams made a point to pick four times in the draft’s top 100, moving around the board five times in the first two days, then one more time on Day 3, to ensure they nabbed the specific prospects they’d sought all along.

The elation of their first selection, Washington safety Taylor Rapp, suggests he’s well on his way to joining other Rams who outperformed their draft slot. McVay said on Saturday that the team considered taking the former All-American with the 31st pick, before they dealt back twice, only to find him still sitting there at No. 62 overall.

They used their remaining picks to move up and down the board with a purpose, targeting specific prospects that they felt fit their system. It’s that specificity that made this draft stand apart from the previous two, when the Rams were less comfortable with what they wanted from their personnel and schemes.

With their first pick on Saturday, Snead moved up to take a prospect who fit perfectly into the team’s gaping hole at nose tackle. Since watching him dominate first-round offensive linemen at the Senior Bowl, the Rams scouting staff had become enamored with Washington’s Greg Gaines. Drafting him on Day 3, Snead said, was the team’s “first priority”.

Gaines ultimately fell to the fourth round (134th overall), which was much further down the board than the Rams had him listed. They packaged two fifth-round picks to assure he became a Ram, and now, judging by their initial praise, Gaines may have the fast track to the vacated starting nose tackle spot.

“We have a vision for all of those guys, and you can see a fit,” McVay said. “That’s a credit to where we’re at, going into our third year, we have a much better feel for our personnel, the guys we’ve brought in from free agency, the things we want to do specific to the scheme.”

That scheme seems primed for changes, no matter how successful it proved a season ago. McVay hinted the instinctual Rapp could play an immediate role in three-safety dime and nickel sets, adding more speed and athleticism on later downs. The drafting of explosive “change-of-pace back” Memphis’ Darrell Henderson might seem like a red flag for Todd Gurley’s health, but it also points to an evolving scheme that could utilize a pass-catching back alongside — not instead of — their workhorse.

Without many major holes on the roster, the Rams could afford such a luxury. Their most obvious vacancy was filled with the selection of Gaines on Saturday. They added depth along the offensive line, drafting two offensive tackles, including one on Saturday, Wisconsin’s David Edwards, who saw his stock plummet after playing through a shoulder injury as a senior.

Their final choice of the draft, linebacker Dakota Allen, may not have been on the draft boards of some teams. Allen was expelled from Texas Tech after he was charged with second-degree burglary in 2016. The charges were eventually dropped, and he ultimately returned to the school following a junior college stint that was captured on the Netflix documentary series, “Last Chance U”. But on Saturday, it was uncertain if Allen would get a chance in the NFL because of the incident.

“I honestly can’t believe I’m an L.A. Ram,” an emotional Allen told reporters on Saturday.

But Allen’s selection fell in lockstep with a strategy they’ve become adept at exploiting over Snead and McVay’s three drafts together. Allen, like Gaines and Edwards and Rapp before him, had fallen down draft boards for reasons outside of his production on the field.

The Rams had already mitigated those concerns with all their picks. They’d seen Rapp’s preternatural instincts and witnessed Edwards, sans shoulder injury. They’d watched Gaines plow through top competition, in spite of his measurables, and they’d seen Michigan cornerback David Long excel in spite of his size. With Allen, they spoke at-length about the incident and came away impressed with how much he’d learned.

The same could be said of the Rams, who after three years spent deep in the middle rounds, seemed to have learned a thing or two about how to exploit the draft board.
2019 RAMS’ DRAFT CLASS

Taylor Rapp, S, Washington, 2nd round, 61st overall: An All-American safety, Rapp is a first-round talent who only fell because of an especially slow 40 time at his Pro Day (4.77). The Rams aren’t concerned and expect him to have an immediate impact in three-safety sets.

Darrell Henderson, RB, Memphis, 3rd round, 70th overall: With the health of Todd Gurley’s knee in question, the Rams traded up to nab an explosive, “change-of-pace” back, who averaged 9.15 yards per carry last season.

David Long, CB, Michigan, 3rd round, 79th overall: Long may be undersized, but his stickiness in man coverage should help him step into the Rams secondary rotation early on.

Bobby Evans, OT, Oklahoma, 3rd round, 97th overall: The Rams have done well with raw, developmental offensive linemen, and Evans, who could play guard early in his career, fits their usual bill.

Greg Gaines, DT, Washington, 4th round, 134th overall: With a huge need at nose tackle, the Rams draft a huge defensive lineman, who, at 6-foot-2, 316 pounds, was voted by opponents as the Pac-12’s defensive lineman of the year last season.

David Edwards, OT, Wisconsin, 5th round, 169th overall: A shoulder injury was the main reason Edwards fell as far as he did, and in L.A., he’ll have time to develop behind another former Badger right tackle, Rob Havenstein.

Nick Scott, S, Penn State, 7th round, 243rd overall: A favorite of special teams coach John Fassel, Scott will contribute on all special teams from the jump while polishing his game as a safety.

Dakota Allen, LB, Texas Tech, 7th round, 251st overall: One of the stars of Netflix’s “Last Chance U”, Allen was expelled from Texas Tech following a burglary charge, but returned to become an All-Big 12 linebacker.
GRADING THE RAMS DRAFT

Getting value: A-

Creativity: B+

Addressing needs: B-

Overall grade: B+

InvaderRam wrote:

i like the pick. i think at the very least he sticks at guard.

no stars in this draft, but they’ve picked up solid role players i think.

I think he might beat out Blythe.

Transaction: #LARams have waived OT Darrell Williams.

— Myles Simmons (@MylesASimmons) May 1, 2019