5 traps the LA Rams must avoid in the 2020 NFL Draft

Pitfall 4 – Trading up in this draft

The temptation to pick “our guy” runs in every draft, but the urges to get the right guy in the 2020 NFL Draft will peak with each round. The 2020 NFL Draft process of vetting, meeting with, interviewing, and medically examining prospects is imperfect at best, and outright broken at worst.  That means teams will be swimming among incomplete draft profiles. Some prospects will be fully vetted, others will be partially vetted, and the rest will be blind spots to the teams.

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Teams will want to jump all over the board to get their guy or to drop out of a spot where nobody of value is on their board.  And for every team attempting to drop down in this draft, another team will need to trade up.

Of course, if the team trying to drop loses a ridiculous amount of value in the exchange, it may be of some benefit to consider trading up. But the Rams haven’t enough available dollars to trade into a spot in this draft where they will need to pay a higher salary. That’s the reality.

The Rams, sitting at 52 for their first pick, will have incredible value drop to them in this draft. Even sitting tight and selecting one of the NFL starting quality wide receivers makes far more sense than packaging draft picks to move up in any round. Patience is so vital in this draft, with so many areas in need of rookie depth.