Rams sign Mundt to 1 year deal

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I think you're talking about a different team.
The Rams pattern is to draft guys and play them right away. McVay doesnt draft players with the intention of redshirting them. It doesnt happen, especially not with a 4th rounder. Especially when he talked about getting guys who could make big plays, could get seperation. That was Hopkins. And guess what? What was McVay criticism of the team after the season? Not enough big plays.
Blanton is a Jag, Mundt is a Jag, the idea that Hopkins was behind either on the depth chart is silly.
Again, I get it that you really arent even talking about this, you're just arguing to argue. Because things you are saying are just not true.

So the fact that Everett left for 1 year at $6 million isn't telling you anything about the Rams view of Hopkins?

and you're acting like I'm making this whole redshirt thing up out of thin air. It's talked about pretty regular by media that covers the Rams as a strategy we implement....

This was from 9 months ago...

Why did LA Rams need to draft TE Brycen Hopkins at 136?

by Bret Stuter

Development for the future
Ah, but the LA Rams are not drafting for 2020. In fact, the Rams have a pretty effective system of adding a playing as a rookie, with the intention of simply sitting the player for a season with little to no action – save special teams play. But then, promoting the player to a backup role / rotational player in their second season.

I don’t think the plan is to get Hopkins as many snaps as possible in 2020. In fact, Hopkins arrival may simply signal that the Rams will not attempt to re-sign Gerald Everett when his contract expires at the end of this season. Hopkins watches Everett and learns. Everett has an outstanding season and signs a huge contract elsewhere. And the LA Rams get a great season out of Everett, and an awarded 2022 compensatory pick for losing Everett in the 2021 NFL Free Agency market. In the end, the Rams needed to draft Hopkins for the 2021 season. That’s actually a very inspired plan.

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This is from January


Jan 20, 2021 at 10:39 AM

Stu Jackson

TE BRYCEN HOPKINS (ROUND 4, NO. 136 OVERALL)
Hopkins effectively had a redshirt year with Tyler Higbee, Gerald Everett and Johnny Mundt. He was inactive for 11 of 16 regular season games, plus the wild card round against the Seahawks. Although Hopkins was active for the divisional round against the Packers, he did not play.
When Hopkins was active, he played special teams almost exclusively. His only two offensive snaps of the regular season came against the Bears, otherwise he played 50 special teams snaps.

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Back in 2000 re: SJD... LA Times


By GARY KLEINSTAFF WRITER
DEC. 25, 2020 7:30 AM PT

Joseph-Day played in college at Rutgers. After the Rams selected him with the 195th pick in the 2018 draft, he attempted to absorb as much as he could from Donald, Brockers and Ndamukong Suh in what essentially became the NFL equivalent of a college redshirt season.

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or we can just listen to Les Snead himself tell us that the Rams employ a "mock redshirt season" to develop some of their players.


View: https://youtu.be/e0SOEDysyuw?t=658