Patience, not money, fixes LA Rams offensive line woes

OL Dominoes begin to fall the wrong way

Despite significant changes to the offensive line anticipated for 2019, the Rams failed to reinforce the squad effectively via the 2019 NFL Draft.  The team did draft versatile Oklahoma OT Bobby Evans at 97 and Wisconsin OT David Edwards at 169. But was it too little, and too late?

Not a recipe for success by any means, but it was a plan nonetheless.  Inevitably, signs of trouble developed early for this offensive line.  Backup OL Aaron Neary was suspended for the first four games due to violating the NFL substance abuse policy.  Things began to go downhill rapidly from there.

Keep in mind that the LA Rams, as all teams, enter the season with just 53 players on the active roster. Of those players, the team must mete out who stays based on anticipated rotations, specialty packages, and sheer depth.  So any team with repeated injuries to one area of the team will soon burn through their backups and be forced to call up players from the practice squad, as well as sign players from other team’s practice squads.

Unfortunately, that is what happened to Los Angeles in 2019.