Former Rams legend points out what many already suspect about Rams draft

2025 NFL Draft Pick Summary

We have tracked the trades and gyrations of the Rams' 2025 NFL Draft picks, revealing the team aiming at the draft armed with eight draft selections. They are:

• Round 1 (26th overall)
• Round 3 (90th overall
• Round 3 (101st overall) (comp pick)
• Round 4 (127th overall)
• Round 6 (190th overall) (via Falcons)
• Round 6 (195th overall) (via Steelers)
• Round 6 (201st overall) 
• Round 6 (202nd overall) (via Bears (originally from Texans))

The Rams do not have a pick in Round 2 (traded to the Carolina Panthers in order to move up to select DT Braden FIske) nor Round 5 (traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers for IOL Kevin Dotson and a Round 6 pick). Will that prove to be problematic? Perhaps. It does create huge intermissions for the team between the 26th and 90th overall picks, as well as between the 127th and 190th overall picks.

Legendary Rams quarterback Jim Everett remains plugged into the Rams state of the union, and recently commented on the Rams draft situation. Everett weighed in to voice his expectation for the Rams to trade back in Round 1 with the goal of picking up a selection in Round 2 pick and Round 5. Here is his reasoning:

His logic is sound. The Rams would love to address filling in the gaps between selections. But it's a strategy that is based on whiteboard Xs and Os. On draft day, do the Rams entertain offers to trade back if TE Colston Loveland falls to them at 26? Does any trade partner step up with fair compensation if the Rams run into a lull in the draft where the team simply doesn't have remaining options on the draft board that excite any NFL team?

As much as I respect and appreciate the wizardry of Rams GM Les Snead on draft day, even he cannot change water into wine. Snead will always be limited to the prospects remaining on the board when the team makes its selections, and to trades that are offered up or accepted by other NFL teams.

I expect with the lack of consensus in the 2025 NFL Draft after the first handful of prospects are selected will drive huge numbers of vigorous trade activity on draft day. Entering the draft, there is a consensus that Miami quarterback Cam Ward is the top quarterback. But there is no consensus over any of the remaining quarterback prospects in this year's draft. How many of these rookie quarterback prospects will hear their names called out in Round 1:

• Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders
• Mississippi QB Jaxson Dart
• Louisville QB Tyler Shough
• Texas QB Quinn Ewers
• Alabama QB Jalen Milroe
• Syracuse QB Kyler McCord
• Oregon QB Dillon Gabriel

Some NFL draft analysts have tossed the Rams into the quarterback market, even suggesting that the Rams will shop for a young quarterback in Round 1. It makes sense for the team to add a successor for veteran QB Matthew Stafford to the roster this year. If and when the Rams must face a season without Stafford is not the right time to draft his successor. But when should the team aim for his successor? Is burying a Round 1 rookie quarterback on the depth chart a wise strategy in a year that seems to have the Rams oh-so-close to competing in Super Bowl LX?

That's what makes draft day drama so fun.