Surprise names emerging for Rams in mock drafts

seeing Stafford be picked, as a fan. If you’re the coach of the Rams, though, and you want to win now, that’s probably not how you go about it.

I really don’t think Crabtree would be a bonehead pick at all. The more and more we look at the OTs in the draft the more it becomes obvious that all of them have some very serious flaws. Oher’s strength is a question. Smith’s feet. The OT from Virginia is the guy I have seen most these days connected to the Rams and that is almost by default because he is the only guy that has good but not great skills in very area without any major questions. I don’t wanna settle with the number two pick in the draft.

Crabtree is considered by a lot of the scouting services as the best player in the draft regardless of position. WR is a position of need with the Rams and I see a lot of similarities between Crabtree and Larry Fitzgerald in college. The OT FA pool is very deep this year (Includes Jordan Gross — who will probably be Fran. — Mark Tauscher, Marvel Smith, Khalif Barnes, etc…). I say sign the OT that you need and take Crabtree with the second pick.

I don’t know if I could possibly stress enough how much we need this guy. Between Curry and he, I think Maualuga is the most physical. I’ve been thinking about this since my Freshman year at USC in 07. I saw Rey’s junior and senior year (actually saw him at a restaurant about a month ago). On literally every defensive play, I watched him and everything he did. Any scout who doubts his coverage ability is completely out of line. The guy reads and reacts to plays unbelievably well. I actually think he’s more akin to Ray Lewis than Brian Urlacher. Coverage is the least of concerns with him, and I think he’s just the complete package. Jaw-dropping hitter. Sheds blocks like they don’t exist. Relentless pursuit. He’s a hybrid of Troy Polamalu and Lofa Tatupu, but is much more talented at this point of his career than either of those guys were coming out of college. I believe, given that MLB is our second most pressing need outside of tackle, that this guy is too good to pass up.

RDE: Chris Long
DTs: Cliff Ryan, Adam Carriker
LDE: Leonard Little
OLBS: Will Witherspoon, Pisa Tinoisamoa
MLB: Rey Maualuga
FS: OJ Atogwe
CBS: Ron Bartell, Fahkir Brown
SS: 3rd rounder

I think Spags would have a lot to work with if we draft Rey, and I would love our front seven to look like that. Not to mention, if we retain Ron and OJ, we would have a pretty good DB core. Curry is more talented than Rey overall, but not at MLB. We’ve got to build our line in Free Agency. Jacob Bell was solid when healthy, if we pick up a solid Center/Tackle we could be pretty good.