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My Cut and Keep Lists

I spent some time and money to chart the 2013 regular season grades from Pro Football Focus (subscription required) on every player if they were in the data base. I then used this information and some mitigating factors like, cap hit, leadership, etc. to come up with my own idea of who I would keep and who gets flushed.

If nothing else you might like seeing how the players on the Rams graded out. The scale works like you would expect. A Zero would be an average play with an average result that would be expected. Anything positive is better than average and of course the opposite is true with getting a negative number.

If you want more information on how they score players you can check it out at PFF Grading.

These scores are from the 2013 regular season:

Quarterbacks

PFF Grade

Keep

Cut

10 Kellen Clemens

-4.0

8 Sam Bradford

0.5

9 Austin Davis

3 Brady Quinn

Running backs

36 Benny Cunningham

-4.7

24 Isaiah Pead

0.5

34 Chase Reynolds

-3.1

26 Daryl Richardson

-2.4

30 Zac Stacy

3.1

Wide receivers

11 Tavon Austin

2.4

12 Stedman Bailey

1.8

16 Emory Blake

13 Chris Givens

-4.8

18 Austin Pettis

-0.8

83 Brian Quick

-1.7

19 Justin Veltung

2.3

Tight ends

89 Jared Cook

-4.2

84 Justice Cunningham

0.6

46 Cory Harkey

-0.3

88 Lance Kendricks

-6.2

82 Mike McNeill

-0.1

Offensive linemen

72 Joe Barksdale T

12.2

61 Tim Barnes C

-2.3

62 Harvey Dahl G

-1.1

64 Sean Hooey T

67 Barrett Jones G/C

77 Jake Long T

25.8

75 Mike Person T

-0.9

73 Graham Pocic T

76 Rodger Saffold T

6.7

66 Shelley Smith G

7.0

70 Brandon Washington G

-1.8

63 Scott Wells C

-4.0

65 Chris Williams G/T

-21.8

Defensive linemen

90 Michael Brockers DT

0.2

96 Mason Brodine DE

71 Matthew Conrath DT

-4.5

93 Jermelle Cudjo DT

-8.0

95 William Hayes DE

11.4

98 Kendall Langford DT

2.6

91 Chris Long DE

2.2

94 Robert Quinn DE

77.2

97 Eugene Sims DE

-7.8

Linebackers

50 Ray Ray Armstrong OLB

0.1

53 Daren Bates OLB

-1.5

57 Sammy Brown OLB

58 Jo-Lonn Dunbar MLB

-9.5

55 James Laurinaitis MLB

-8.7

52 Alec Ogletree OLB

-4.2

-- Phillip Steward OLB

51 Will Witherspoon OLB

0.7

Defensive backs

37 Matthew Daniels SS

38 Cody Davis FS

3.0

31 Cortland Finnegan CB

-19.7

27 Matt Giordano FS

-1.2

21 Janoris Jenkins CB

-0.9

22 Trumaine Johnson CB

-3.0

25 T. J. McDonald SS

-9.4

32 Brandon McGee CB

-6.1

23 Rodney McLeod FS

-8.7

33 Quinton Pointer CB

-0.4

20 Darian Stewart SS

-1.0

35 Darren Woodard CB

Special teams

6 John Hekker P

35.2

44 Jacob McQuaide LS

-3.5

4 Greg Zuerlein K

32.7

37

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I would want one new backup QB, no running backs except Stacy and Pead, with a wide receiver or two just for fun. All the rest of our picks and UDFA should go to beefing up the O-Line and weak secondary.

That’s the way I look at it, how about you?