They’re confident in the offensive line
The biggest surprise for the Rams in the draft was their decision to ignore the offensive line until their very last pick. They had opportunities to draft linemen on Day 2 and early on Day 3, but they passed up all of those chances in favor of players they clearly had higher on their board, even if they weren’t at positions that needed to be addressed.
Les Snead said after the draft that the Rams like their offensive line group, specifically mentioning Austin Corbett as a key player.
“Definitely, that’s obvious, because we didn’t address OL until later,” he said of whether the team likes its current group. “But I think Sean’s mentioned it, we’ve been drafting young players for the last two, three years. Even when Sean mentioned yesterday trading for (OL) Austin Corbett, it was just a couple years ago that he was the 33rd (overall) pick in the draft and even this year we wouldn’t have been able to pick an Austin Corbett.
“So, we did go into it probably a little different than maybe the outside of our building where, OK, hey, it’s a major, major glaring weakness the Rams offensive line.’ We felt confident that if we continue grooming and developing these players they’d have a chance to become a really solid offensive line.”
Whether this works out or not remains to be seen, but ignoring the offensive line after seeing the mess that it was last year is a huge risk for the Rams.