You both make a batch of very good points that I won't reiterate - and thank you both for the discussion.
My 2c: If we were set at edge, real set and didn't need a for-sure, out-of-the-gate starter, I'd be all over Robinson. Rare potential. Hard to pass.
Immediate starter? 17 game season and still fresh for playoffs?
Fact is, in my eyes, we don't know that we'd have that. At least I don't. We just might in Latui - although as a long-term investment, I'd rather have Robinson. The overriding factor for me is that we need an edge
NOW. And I'm not sure that Robinson, for all his exciting potential, is that player.
Besides, this kid is barely out of his teens. His body isn't fully grown, fully hardened off. He'd for sure get some snaps as a regular season player, but every down, for eighteen or more games? With only one preseason to acclimate and condition himself for NFL football?
True, as you say JY53, we don't know because we've seen these signing go all sorts of ways. But given what we know at this point, expecting too much of Chop too early might backfire. Whether Latui's neck is a ptential liability is also a risk - and below those two there are just a couple of others according to what I've read and seen in a few clips.
They might be the safer bets for a the-future-is-now oriented Rams team in 2024.
