Has he made some terrible moves? Of course. Trading
up for Austin 2013. Extending Austin in 2016 when they probably shouldn't even have picked up his 5th year option. Greg Robinson of course. Atwell in 2021. Terrible. Awful decisions.
To me the biggest thing they are paying the price for is that like you said- since 2018-
45% (or 20 of 45) of their draft picks have been 6th and 7th rounders.
No one hits on more than 20% of their 6th and 7th round picks. So when the plurality of your draft picks in 5 seasons end up as those you're going to see talent drain. Absolutely. The Rams have 8 picks in 2023 from the late 5th through 7th rounds. No thanks. I am totally on board with packaging several of those to move UP and get more top 150 overall picks.
But where I also disagree is in listing a bunch of those guys Snead has picked as JAGs it does not account at all for their draft position. Brockers was a bad selection at 14th overall when he gave them 9 years as a solid starting DT? Sorry, I don't buy that one. I don't care what they traded him to Detroit for after that. Trumaine Johnson as a 3rd round pick? Zuerlein as a 6th? Havenstein as a late 2nd? John Johnson in the 3rd? Josh Reynolds in the mid-4th? SJD as a 6th rounder? Gaines as a late 4th? Nick Scott and Skowronek as 7ths? Ernest Jones at the end of the 3rd? Those are what are called value picks, not JAGs and certainly not misses, and the Rams need
more of those types, not less.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2023 05:10AM by LMU93.
