Rams pre-draft mailbag: Cam Akers expectations, draft plans and…Caleb Williams?
Answering Rams questions ahead of the 2023 draft, including the team's plans and the possibility of landing Caleb Williams in 2024
Yeah! Nobody around here would do that.The idea of DaSilva answering questions as if he’s some sort of insider or authority makes me laugh.
Could easily be another Edge next year, someone working the opposite side of whoever we may draft this season. Brian Burns will only be 25, and likely be a free agent, the Rams certainly showed an interest in trading for him last year. Perhaps an OT lines up for us also. We'll have the available CAP to choose wisely.FA target next year? Definitely edge rusher!! Really? The guys we drafted this year aren't gonna work out this year or in 2024? Who knew? It is what it is. A demand for 24 hour information about the team results in 23 hours of absolute ca-ca. One thing that did make sense...."the Rams aren't tanking for Caleb". No shit?
Rams extended Gurley because he was a rare talent at the position. No way they offer Akers a 2nd contract.
I think it would be another bad move to sign him before the years out. IMO he hasn’t established his value for the team. He ended 2022 in great shape. 2023 is a new year with new expectations.
Starting to think the Rams might simply take a couple Edge types early in this draft. Something like Ojulari at 36 to fill that pass rush threat we need so badly on third down, then a more physical type who can compete with Hoecht or beat him out day one as our strongside dude, like Tuli for example.Could easily be another Edge next year, someone working the opposite side of whoever we may draft this season. Brian Burns will only be 25, and likely be a free agent, the Rams certainly showed an interest in trading for him last year. Perhaps an OT lines up for us also. We'll have the available CAP to choose wisely.
Starting to think the Rams might simply take a couple Edge types early in this draft. Something like Ojulari at 36 to fill that pass rush threat we need so badly on third down, then a more physical type who can compete with Hoecht or beat him out day one as our strongside dude, like Tuli for example.
I don't know that we're gonna be in this position again for a while where we have this much Edge choice in the draft where we typically pick. It is kind of remarkable the deeper I look at the group.
And if they can hit on just a blindside Edge, just one really good rusher, then they add a LT of the future next year and we're looking a hell of a lot better at those cornerstone positions.