Rams are ready to make their first pick of draft after sitting out opening round

Rams are ready to make their first pick of draft after sitting out opening round

Gary Klein

They could only sit and watch as 32 players came off the board Thursday night during the first round of the NFL draft.

The Rams did not have a first-round pick — one of the costs of last year’s trade to the top of the draft to select quarterback Jared Goff — so Rams general manager Les Snead and new coach Sean McVay began reformulating plans after seeing other teams take receivers, tight ends, cornerbacks and other positions of need.

But Snead and McVay emerged from their draft room sounding optimistic about their prospects.

Barring a trade to move them forward or back, the Rams will choose fifth in Friday’s second round, the 37th pick overall.

Is the player they projected to be in that spot still available?

“Still there,” Snead said.

“Players,” McVay added. “Players…. You feel really good about a bunch of different guys.”

The Rams are scheduled to make two selections Friday. Along with the 37th pick, they have a third-round pick, the 69th overall.

They have six picks in rounds 4 through 7 on Saturday.

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