LA Rams: Team should kick the tires on OL David DeCastro

All aboard the LA Rams train. First stop? SoFi Stadium to host the Chicago Bears. It’s rapidly approaching, and while there are lots of buzzing all over the NFL and even out of the first sessions of the LA Rams Organized Team Activities (OTAs), there is a feeling that the team is walking a tightwire right now. What is off-kilter?

Well, for starters, we just dove into the fact that the LA Rams are fielding the youngest team in the NFL right now.  While that is nothing new, it is a bit surprising as the Rams have clearly committed to an urgency about winning it all here and now. Whether or not you buy in that the LA Rams window of success is temporary, it’s pretty clear that the team’s current roster led by veterans Andrew Whitworth, Matthew Stafford, Jalen Ramsey, Leonard Floyd, and Aaron Donald, won’t be playing together and at their peak performance forever.

So it’s no longer about getting it wrong meaning getting it right the next go-round. The LA Rams need to get it right the first time. One area that continues to pose unanswered questions is that of depth. The LA Rams learned the hard way in 2020 that the team’s presumed depth was insufficient to handle the siphoning off of talent over the course of a season due to injuries.

The vulnerability was emphasized with an exclamation point this off-season as the LA Rams watched starting offensive center sign on elsewhere, but failed to restock the shelves with plug-n-play talent. Instead, the LA Rams have decided to shift Austin Corbett from right guard to offensive center, and backfill that right guard role with Bobby Evans. That may work, as they are all big bodies and are getting a full offseason to sync up.  It will all come down to how quickly and effectively Bobby Evans plays as a starting right guard.