The Los Angeles Rams picked FSU pass rusher Jared Verse with the 19th overall pick in the first round of the 2024 NFL draft in Detroit on Thursday evening.
Verse (6-4, 254 pounds) ran a 40-yard dash in 4.58 seconds and bench-pressed 225 pounds 31 times at the NFL combine earlier this offseason. He spent the first three years of his college career at Albany before transferring to FSU ahead of the 2022 season.
Over the last two years, Verse totaled 29.5 tackles behind the line of scrimmage and 18 sacks with the Seminoles.
NFL.com’s Lance Zierlein has compared Verse to LaMarr Woodley, who was a second-round pick out of Michigan in the 2007 NFL draft.
Draft Wire’s Jeff Risdon had Verse ranked as the third-best pass rusher in this year’s class (No. 17 overall), below Alabama’s Dallas Turner (No. 12) and UCLA’s Laiatu Latu (No. 13).
Following five years at the college level, Verse enters the NFL as a 23-year-old rookie set to turn 24 in November.
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