AD was obviously a very good player at PITT but clearly undersized by NFL standards. More times than not a guy his size flames out in the NFL. He was NOT considered a top 5 pick. Moreover, the rams had no real need for a DT at the time plus OBJ was still on the board. The pick reportedly came down to OBJ and AD. Drafting AD was no slam dunk. Finally, lots of players look like great picks on draft day only to fail in the nfl so I dont care what pick it is, if you end up with arguably the the player in the NFL, its a good day. Snead (or the rams organization as a whole) deserves a ton of credit for making the pick.
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spagsbacker
AD was predicted to be drafted in top 5, when he was available at #13, if any of us were GM, we would have sprinted to the podium to draft Donald. Les happened to be the GM, does not make him a shrewd GM.
go rams.