Rams miss hosting prospects for visits, working them out
One of the biggest changes to the pre-draft process this year was the inability for teams to host prospects for visits. Coaches, scouts and GMs also couldn’t go work players out before the draft, which is a valuable aspect of the evaluation process.
“The negatives are where you don’t have that interpersonal interaction, that when you can bring the top 30s in. One of the things that I thought was instrumental in our first year that Les has done in previous years, we went around and actually got a chance to work out some guys,” McVay said. “We worked out Cooper Kupp, we worked out Gerald Everett, some other guys that we were considering. Those are really beneficial things to get that up close and feel, most importantly for the human being, but then also some of the physical things that you’re looking for. That’s where you get a little bit minimized.”