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...none of these options should be taken for granted as easy...
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Agreed. I don't feel any of the options should be taken for granted as easy including trading up for a 1st round pick. There are plenty of bust OTs even in the 1st round.
Bottomline: replacing Whit won't be easy.
Agreed it won't be easy.
Here however is a ten year hit rate of LOTs drafted in round 1. I go back a decade and end on 2019, which gives some room to see how guys did.
2010-2019. 34 OTs drafted. 19 became regular starters at LOT. I added 2 more because it's widely understood that they could play LOT--Lane Johnson and Ryan Ramczyk. That's a hit rate of 55.9%.
Not many positions have a better hit rate than that.
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Sure, but a lot of those were very early, top 15 picks. The Rams have no shot, NONE, of getting that high.
Edit: The relevant inquiry IMO would be to look at the hit rate for picks 20-32. Although I doubt they get as high as 20 too.
A lot of them were taken high. A lot of them weren't. Of the 34 drafted, 16 were taken pick 16 or lower. Of those 16, 7 were hits, for a hit rate of 43.7%. This includes very solid guys like Solder, Castonzo, Ramczyk, Rieff, Decker, and Bolles.
