You are correct. Fletcher was a '98 UDFA.
Look at the way the OLine was built...
LT Orlando Pace('97 1st rd)
G Adam Timmerman('99 FA)
C Mike Gruttadauria('96 FA) / Andy McCollum('99 FA)
G Tom Nutten('98 FA)
RT Ryan Tucker('97 4th rd) / Fred Miller('96 5th)
It's time to get back to adding pieces there.
And then no one took the time to supplement it. Well not with any decent pieces anyway. John St. Clair was taken in 2000, and atrocious. Two other O-linemen were taken and out of the league within 2 years. One lineman in 2002, don't think Travis Scott stuck around for any length of time.
One lineman in 2003, out of the league by 2004
One lineman in 2004, gone from the Rams by 2006
Then they must've realized that shit was going to hit the fan in 2005 Alex Barron, Ritchie and Claude Terrell.
And we know the rest of the story from there on out
Apparently they just had a firm belief in the guys they had and didn't really care too much about drafting for depth. It makes those injury racked seasons in 06, 07 08 seem a bit more understandable.
I'd never really looked into this before now. I knew there were some truly shitty drafts for a decade, but