This is not a mirage or a mistake. The LA Rams will make a selection on Day 1 of the 2024 NFL Draft. The question is: who will it be? This has been an active topic lately and will likely fill chat rooms, forums, and even comment sections. Yet even as the LA Rams prepare to play in Week 11, many factors at play have yet to be ironed out.
Every Saturday in the fall, NCAA football games offer a true smorgasbord of college football. Some games are just local rivalries. Other games, thanks to national rankings, are of regional or national interest. But as many NFL fans are finding, their interest in college players is a bit limited until after the NFL season.
By this time, college football teams have shut down for the offseason and interested fans must wait for the NFL Scouting Combine, or the few NFL senior games that allow draft-eligible college players to compete against d other players eligible for the draft.
What if the Rams don’t pick a QB in the first round?
The injury epidemic among veteran quarterbacks in 2023 has certainly made NFL teams aware of the state of their backup quarterback situation. And the careers of many of the NFL’s best quarterbacks are beginning to wind down as retirement draws ever closer. While the Los Angeles Rams are among this group of NFL teams with legitimate interest in drafting a rookie quarterback in 2024, will the supply of first-round-worthy quarterbacks last long enough so the Rams can make a wise selection for their franchise quarterback of the future?
The consensus top two quarterback prospects as of mid-November 2023 are USC quarterback Caleb Williams and North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye. But how many other quarterbacks entering the 2024 NFL Draft are worth a first-round pick? That’s the problem after all, isn’t it?
Besides, what do the Rams do if the team starts winning games? If the Rams’ Round 1 pick is outside of the Top 10 selections, do the Rams remain obsessed with a lesser quarterback, knowing that future drafts won’t offer anyone better? Or will the Rams pivot to a Best Player Available (BPA) selection and let the selection committee fail as best they can?
Either way, who could the Rams target instead? This is the question we will try to answer now. And so, here are five non-quarterback options for the LA Rams in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft.
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