Mid-season 3 round Rams Mock Draft reboots offense for 2025 success

Round 1 (via Buffalo)- Alabama QB Jalen Milroe

In this mock draft, the pressing need to add a future quarterback to at least add competition to backup QB Stetson Bennett is the most pressing role to fill. While no rookie should be considered to be an instant starter, the team has to pivot from recycling tarnished veterans to investing time and energy into a true successor to veteran QB Matthew Stafford.

Alabama QB Jalen Milroe certainly checks the boxes. Standing 6-foot-2 and weighing 225 pounds, Milroe has an ideal frame to command an NFL offense. He also offers that dual-threat quarterback that has become the flavor of the month in NFL circles. What the Rams love about him is his leadership ability, his coolness under pressure, and his ability to lead defensive backs in the wrong direction with his eyes.

I like the Rams adding a rookie quarterback in Round 1, and I love the team selecting Alabama's Jalen Milroe here.

Round 2 (via Buffalo) - Kentucky CB Maxwell Hairston

Another area of top interest for the Rams front office in the 2025 NFL Draft is cornerback. And 6-foot-1, 186-pound cornerback Maxwell Hairston out of Kentucky is certainly worth a solid look. He is one of those ball-hawking cornerbacks that the Rams seem to gravitate toward of late. And former OC Liam Coen is a direct pipeline to the inner workings of the Kentucky Wildcats football team. As far as rolling the dice, the Rams front office is counting cards on this prospect.

Not every draft profile views Hairston as a Day 2 prospect. That's okay, as the real draft frenzy occurs during and after draft prospects compete in the annual showcase bowls. When Hairston appies his SEC-pass coverage to nationwide wide receivers, NFL teams will see what the buzz is all about.

The secondary needs a taller corner who can cover and can create turnovers, a Hairston speciality. Since he is a former wide receiver, he brings a great deal of football IQ to the position, has solid technique, and seems to know where the quarterback wants to go with the football better than the receiver does. He makes great sense in Round 2.