Last year, the Rams drafted guys in round 3/4/5 (Noteboom, Allen, Franklin, Kiser, Ogbo) and more-or-less redshirted them for the year.

I doubt a round 2 OL will play this year, so in essence a redshirt year again. Wouldn't they prefer to redshirt players drafted in the middle to later rounds, and get value from the higher-round picks?

This is why I think they will draft 2 IOL players later in the round. They will need to groom one to take over for Noteboom when he moves out to Tackle after Whit retires.