Re: you really think Snead has drafted well?

The original question: "Who should be held accountable for Rams offensive struggles?"

The post I was responding to: "Les Snead and his terrible drafting"

And my response: "Personally I think that has a lot more to do with the drop-off from last year than thinking Snead's crappy drafting finally kicked in after 11 years ..." <in reference to 6 of the top 9 OL being injured>

In the Rams' SB years they started virtually the same OL every game. And I don't think it's a reach to think that if Boom, Edwards, Allen, Shelton, Bruss, and Anchrum remained healthy virtually this entire season that the Rams would be at least 5-3 rather than 3-5. And assuming that's true then I stand by my conclusion that the OL injuries are to blame for the Rams offensive struggles, not Snead's drafting.

That being said, I don't mind going off topic and answering your question as well.

Snead doesn't draft in a vacuum. To me it makes no sense to look at what Snead has done and speculate whether he did good or bad without analyzing whether he did better or worse than the other 31 teams.

Just to make up some numbers: 'Mystery GM' drafted 100 players and 10 of them became starters. Is that good or bad? Well, if the NFL average is 2 out of 100 then that's really good. If the NFL average is 25 out of 100 the 'Mystery GM' isn't cutting it.

Here's the NFL reality as an independent analysis shows: "NFL fans across the league are expecting their team to draft future Pro Bowlers, and Vikings’ fans are no different. But the reality is that drafting a Justin Jefferson is a 1% chance deal, and the more likely outcome is that 9 of 10 draft picks will either be disappointing or have little impact for the team that drafts them. " [www.dailynorseman.com]

Listed below is every draft pick Snead has ever made. There are 96 of them. I'd say around 39 of them made (or will likely make) a contribution to the team with another 6 (or 8 or 10) from the last few drafts TBD. (Please do you own count and post your results!)

That's a 40 to 50% hit rate.

Then when you add this: "The Rams have selected 96 players in the NFL Draft under Snead with five receiving All-Pro honors, the second most drafted All-Pro selections since 2012." [www.therams.com] ... I'd have to say yeah, Snead has drafted well.

2012 Michael Brockers
2012 Isaiah Pead
2012 Brian Quick
2012 Janoris Jenkins
2012 Trumaine Johnson
2012 Chris Givens
2012 Rokevious Watkins
2012 Greg Zuerlein
2012 Daryl Richardson
2012 Aaron Brown

2013 Tavon Austin
2013 Alec Ogletree
2013 Stedman Bailey
2013 T.J. McDonald
2013 Barrett Jones
2013 Zac Stacy
2013 Brandon McGee

2014 Greg Robinson
2014 Aaron Donald
2014 Lamarcus Joyner
2014 Tre Mason
2014 Maurice Alexander
2014 Garrett Gilbert
2014 E.J. Gaines
2014 Mitchell Van Dyk
2014 Demetrius Rhaney
2014 Michael Sam
2014 Christian Bryant

2015 Todd Gurley
2015 Rob Havenstein
2015 Sean Mannion
2015 Jamon Brown
2015 Andrew Donnal
2015 Isaiah Battle
2015 Michael Thomas
2015 Cody Wichmann
2015 Martin Ifedi
2015 Bryce Hager

2016 Jared Goff
2016 Pharoh Cooper
2016 Tyler Higbee
2016 Sam Rodgers
2016 Bud Sasser
2016 Temmarick Hemingway
2016 Josh Forrest

2017 Gerald Everett
2017 Cooper Kupp
2017 John Johnson III
2017 Josh Reynolds
2017 Samson Edukam
2017 Tanzel Smart
2017 Ejuan Price

2018 Joseph Noteboom
2018 Brian Allen
2018 John Franklin-Myers
2018 Micah Kiser
2018 Ogbonnia Okoronkwo
2018 John Kelly
2018 Jamil Demby
2018 Sebastian Joseph-Day
2018 Trevon Young
2018 Travin Howard
2018 Justin Lawler

2019 Taylor Rapp
2019 Darrell Henderson
2019 David Long
2019 Bobby Evans
2019 Greg Gaines
2019 David Edwards
2019 Nick Scott
2019 Dakoa Allen

2020 Cam Akers
2020 Van Jefferson
2020 Terrell Lewis
2020 Terrell Burgess
2020 Brycen Hopkins
2020 Jordan Fuller
2020 Clay Johnston
2020 Sam Sloman
2020 Tremayne Anchrum

2021 Tutu Atwell
2021 Ernest Jones
2021 Bobby Brown
2021 Robert Rochell
2021 Jacob Harris
2021 Earnest Brown IV
2021 Jake Funk
2021 Ben Skowronek
2021 Chris Garrett

2022 Logan Bruss
2022 Cobie Durant
2022 Kyren Williams
2022 Quentin Lake
2022 Derion Kendrick
2022 Daniel Hardy
2022 Russ Yeast
2022 AJ Arcuri

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/2022 06:02PM by AlbaNY_Ram.