Insightful Interview With Les Snead, PFF Guys

[Coliseum Ram]

Snead and McVay have done several interviews lately.

In one I was happy to hear Snead admit that in hindsight it was good that some of those draft day trade up attempts didn't happen.

My guess at what happened during Draft Day(s) 2026:

The Rams planned to take Ty Simpson, but wanted to move down first. They had a deal set with the Lions to move down to #17, but that fell through when Miami selected OT Kayden Proctor right before their selection. They didn't want to risk a trade down past #17 for fear that Arizona might move up ahead of them and take Simpson so they just selected him at #13.

In the 2nd round I believe that Snead wanted to do the teammate thing again and nab Simpson's former teammate WR Germie Bernard. I believe if they would have made the trade down with the Lions they would have traded up to make this happen. But with Bernard off the board I believe they sat back and took the highest rated player on their trade board in the 2nd round in Max Klare.

The teammate thing? Might not be applicable here, as by the time Simpson takes the field as a Ram, Bernard could be heading into 2nd Contract territory or off the team already. This would be no "Verse/Fiske," or "McDuffie/Watson."

 

[Memphis Ram]

The teammate thing? Might not be applicable here, as by the time Simpson takes the field as a Ram, Bernard could be heading into 2nd Contract territory or off the team already. This would be no "Verse/Fiske," or "McDuffie/Watson."

It does apply as it two kids coming with some already established chemistry learning together.

Besides, 2nd contract territory assumes that Stafford is playing 3 or 4 more years when he might even call it quits after this season.

 

[Coliseum Ram]

It does apply as it two kids coming with some already established chemistry learning together.

Besides, 2nd contract territory assumes that Stafford is playing 3 or 4 more years when he might even call it quits after this season.

Yes. Might. Or might not.

 

[Merlin]

Snead and McVay have done several interviews lately.

In one I was happy to hear Snead admit that in hindsight it was good that some of those draft day trade up attempts didn't happen.

My guess at what happened during Draft Day(s) 2026:

The Rams planned to take Ty Simpson, but wanted to move down first. They had a deal set with the Lions to move down to #17, but that fell through when Miami selected OT Kayden Proctor right before their selection. They didn't want to risk a trade down past #17 for fear that Arizona might move up ahead of them and take Simpson so they just selected him at #13.

In the 2nd round I believe that Snead wanted to do the teammate thing again and nab Simpson's former teammate WR Germie Bernard. I believe if they would have made the trade down with the Lions they would have traded up to make this happen. But with Bernard off the board I believe they sat back and took the highest rated player on their trade board in the 2nd round in Max Klare.

Yeah sometimes not getting what you want can be a good thing in the long run. Draft picks are an educated guess, but still a guess. Teams have a ton of resources to use, but even they have no idea what's in someone's head or how they'll adjust to the next level.

I looked a lot at Klare's film after we made that pick. He's a poor man's La Porta, not quite as smooth in space but he's got some real nice physicality to him. And that physical side of things will help him in this division as well as the playoffs.

It's crazy how many years I've wanted them to develop a legit pass weapon TE and now they have two young and talented pieces for the pass game who will be settling in. And a great defense. I'm a happy fan right now.

 

[FrantikRam]

I forget which interview it was, but in one of these (I believe) Snead said something about how we only end up with like 30-50 players on our draft board total. That is something that we need to keep in mind when we talk about BPA - because there could be a player, like CJ Daniels who we really like, and we ended up trading up because the other players on our board were going.

To the Rams, that was trading up to make sure we got a player who we really wanted. To the outside world, people may have said "that's weird".

 

[Ground Chuck]

Yeah sometimes not getting what you want can be a good thing in the long run. Draft picks are an educated guess, but still a guess. Teams have a ton of resources to use, but even they have no idea what's in someone's head or how they'll adjust to the next level.

I looked a lot at Klare's film after we made that pick. He's a poor man's La Porta, not quite as smooth in space but he's got some real nice physicality to him. And that physical side of things will help him in this division as well as the playoffs.

It's crazy how many years I've wanted them to develop a legit pass weapon TE and now they have two young and talented pieces for the pass game who will be settling in. And a great defense. I'm a happy fan right now.

"Well you son-of-a...."

-Pete Holohan