It would have been 1 of the 2 picks Cleveland had last year and we would have wasted it on a qb prospect so...there's that.
You think so? The next QB drafted after Mariota was Grayson in the 3rd. If we'd made the trade for Cleveland's first pick (which I don't think they were offering) at #12, I think we'd have taken DeVante Parker, and if we'd made the trade for #19 (the more likely offer) then, crap, I don't know... Erving like Cleveland took, probably? Or DJ Humphries, meaning we'd not take Havenstein in the 2nd, maybe making the Hav pick an interior guy like Marpet or Cann instead?
I think outside of the 2 guys at the top of the draft, the Rams and the rest of the teams knew nobody else was worth a day 1 pick. If there'd been a late-1st-round QB prospect like there was in 2014 - a Carr or Bridgewater type player - they'd have taken the trade with Cleveland. But there wasn't. This was a really bad draft for QBs.