Rams trade up, add another receiver
And that guy is Keenan Burton from Kentucky, He is more a wideout than a slot receiver and he will add to the receiver competition at training camp.
That sad-sack needed all the help the Rams could locate. The Rams spent a seventh-round pick to move from the fifth round into the fourth round (128th overall) and take Burton.
The Rams war room was running out of preferred prospects to select. Hence the move up. “There are only a few out there that are real, viable prospects,” personnel czar Billy Devaney said.
“He has really good hands, but can stretch the field as well,” coach Scott Linehan said of Burton. “This kid is a good route runner and he will go over the middle to make the tough catch.
“He played with a lot of true injuries (in 2007) that a lot of guys (wouldn’t have played with).
Maybe we should have taken Caldwell in the 3rd, or moved up…??? His brother is in STL…
We couldn’t take Caldwell in the 3rd - we really needed a lineman that credibly can play T.
We couldn’t take Caldwell in the 3rd - we really needed a lineman that credibly can play T.
Maybe the Rams finally got the receiver they thought they were getting when they signed Drew Bennett.
Nothing to do with the draft, but just read that Matt Morris was released by the Pirates. They have to pay his $10 million salary this year. Is he worth picking up by the Cards to see if he has anything left? By the way, I like the pick of Chris Long. Hope the rest of the draft works out better than the last few years.
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I DON’T LIKE OUR FIRST ROUND PICK…….I THINK THAT BECAUSE THIS IS ST. LOUIS, PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR A WHITE HERO INSTEAD OF THE MOST HERALDED PLAYER…WARREN SAPP OR GRANT WISTROM? YOU TELL ME.
I’ll take Warren Sapp over the capable Wistrom. We drafted so high in the rounds that it is hard to screw it up. And we may not have this chance to draft this high again. Part of drafting is timing-if you have a sleeper pick you sit on it to the just the right time. You don’t jump on a small speed guy from a weak league on the second pick of the second round. We could have had Avery in the 6th round, and Greco could have probably gone a round on or two later. The Rams jumping the gun on these picks crosses over to incompetence.
Tony,
I hate that kind of garbage. The question comes down to if the Rams were better with Carriker inside or outside. I think, in a vacuum, we would take either player, with a slight edge to Dorsey. We don’t live in a vacuum, and keeping Carriker inside provides you with two years of productive 1st round players. I don’t think Carriker can play DE in the NFL, and I don’t think Dorsey would be so disruptive in the middle that it would compensate for that lack of production.
It’s not about race. It’s a logical decision to make the team better. Add to it the fact that the Rams have an history of working with Long’s agent, and the decision should have been a no-brainer. I’m sorry you feel that there was a mistake made, but there are a multitude of reasons for this pick beyond whatever racial resentments that you, or others, might harbor.
Seems like the Rams draft the same guys each year. Round 1 - big, strong, white defensive end with around 4.74 speed. Hello again, Adam Carriker. Round 2 - small, black, speedster WR from a lesser school Derek Stanley II? I was wondering who else we could clone - maybe take Brad Cottam as a Klop clone, or Owen Schmidt to replace Mad Hedgecock? Nope, another converted wide receiver with good speed who now plays cornerback but not verry well. I guess we needed another Jonathon Wade