So what if LA Rams deal siphons off more first-round picks?

The LA Rams may have sunk more valuable draft picks into resolving their quarterbacking conundrum.  It only cost the team two first-round picks and one third-round pick. The exchange of future picks for a quarterback today has allowed the Rams to clear up huge question marks about the team’s immediate future.  The LA Rams are set at quarterback for the next two seasons, in theory.

The Rams now have a much clearer path to the 2021 NFL season, and what that may hold. There are some minor issues on offense. But having said that, the Rams appear to be fully prepared for the 2021 NFL Season and this year’s exodus of free agents well enough to field a very potent offense today, as is.

Of course, the same cannot be said of the Rams defense.

But the LA Rams last picked in the first round of the 2016 NFL Draft. They did not step up to the podium on day one of any NFL Draft since, and now will not do so unto 2024, at the earliest. To place all of that in perspective, by the time the LA Rams choose on day one of an NFL Draft, Matthew Stafford’s current contract will have been expired by over a year.

That’s a rather nebulous future, isn’t it?  If Stafford does not work out, the LA Rams may be in the market for another quarterback a year before they get to choose in round one. But it’s the world of high-stakes gamblers. That sense of confidence that when something is needed, a path will appear to take the team there.