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But I think that in the end when you count the hit percentage, the 2024 draft will provide more players.
well if you’re looking at just hits and not the quality of hits and if you’re looking at percentages and not raw numbers then yes this draft class could surpass past year’s due to the rams having fourteen picks in 23 vs ten in 24. and the rams having a first round pick this year vs none in 23. they’d only need to hit on five to yield a higher percentage. i’d say the rams hit on 6 of the 14 players they drafted last year. if you don’t count allen, then it’s really only 5. so they would only need to hit on 4 this year. but the quality of picks this year is certainly higher due to having a first round pick.
This draft may even be better than last year’s.
that’s a tall order.
puka has a rookie season for the ages. oroy if not for stroud having his equally startling season but at qb of all positions.
avila day one starter with upside.
turner should have been in the discussion for droy.
byron young has a solid season to build off. started 16 of 17 games.
evans starting punter and kickoff guy.
so not just four starters out of this draft. five if you include evans. you’d need one rookie to break records and another at least in contention for some kind of regular season award.
so karty if he sticks at kicker is equal to evans.
you’d need one of verse or fiske to break two defensive rookie records. corum to be in contention on the other side for offensive rookie of the year. or perhaps even kinchens breaking the rookie record for interception. and the other two having solid seasons as pretty much day one starters.
i don’t see that happening.
wv wrote: I dont get the feeling that the Rams have closed the gap tween them and the 49ers.
That’s a separate issue though, right? And can they do that in just one draft?
yeah. i don’t know that they’ve closed the gap.
yet.
i do see a general trend in their off-season and it was to get more physical. and i’m pretty sure it’s a direct response to how the niners have handled them. they went grunt over finesse. from signing jackson to drafting verse and fiske. on that i think it was the right approach. i just don’t know if it’ll work.
not in love with the verse pick. or the fiske pick… but i do like the thought of them playing together. i like the chemistry there. don’t know if it’ll work one level up in competition but i’ll be rooting for them.
i like the corum pick and even see the potential in him being better even than kyren. i do want to acknowledge that the chances of that are not high. that was a pretty high bar set by kyren, but i do really like corum’s potential that much.
kinchen looks good on paper, but who knows. i’ve read plenty of negative reports on him too so we’ll see.
i’ll only comment on one more player. karty. glad they got him and hope he can fill the gaping hole that was the kicking game last year.
apparently rams were interested in trading up to get bowers?
probably not the best idea to trade up for bowers, but i fully expect the rams to draft a tight end at some point. in fact i’d be disappointed if they didn’t.
The Rams had an offensive player they had their eyes on through the entire process: Brock Bowers
When he went off the board, their decision got a lot easier. They are thrilled with Jared Verse at 19. @gmfb pic.twitter.com/mf488L4na3
— Peter Schrager (@PSchrags) April 26, 2024
he was very effective rushing the passer according to these metrics. right up there with latu and robinson.
we’ll see.
Notable EDGE prospects career pressure rates and weighted pass rush grades. We’re in a pass protection epidemic but this draft class still has some juice. pic.twitter.com/otB9WNCRzF
— Football Insights 📊 (@fball_insights) April 4, 2024
