WR or defensive back? Needy Rams enter draft open-minded/ESPN

WR or defensive back? Needy Rams enter draft open-minded
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Alden Gonzalez

The Los Angeles Rams' draft board ... well, it's complicated.

For the first time since 1987 -- yes, 1987 -- the Rams do not have a first-round pick. An entire day will go by without them. By the time they make their first selection, sometime around 4:30 p.m. PT on Friday, 36 players will have come off the board. The draft begins 23 1/2 hours before that, at 5 p.m. PT on Thursday. When it does, the Rams will have very little idea of what to expect.


Sean McVay's Rams seemingly have needs everywhere except quarterback and running back. Trevor Ruszkowski/USA TODAY Sports
"It's going to be foggy on Thursday night when the bell rings," Rams general manager Les Snead told reporters from the team facility this week, "but it'll be a lot clearer when those 32 picks are made. We'll have plans. We'll sit here, I'm sure, a lot -- talk about what might occur, the scenarios, who's left."

The Rams have needs all over their roster, enough so that pinning it down to one position for this draft seems injudicious. They badly need more impact talent at wide receiver, but are also very thin at tight end. They need to find their center of the future, but can't forget about left tackle. Their secondary needs a lot more depth, but they can't really ignore their front seven, either.

Basically everything except quarterback and running back are prime targets heading into the 2017 draft, which will mark Snead's sixth as GM and Sean McVay's first as head coach. Snead called McVay "a very instinctive evaluator," and McVay credited Snead's assessment of players in helping him grow.

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