Here's how the Rams dig deeper on NFL Draft prospects without hosting them for visits
Here's how the Rams dig deeper on NFL Draft prospects without hosting them for visits
The Los Angeles Rams have proven to be one of the best scouting teams in the NFL. How else could you explain their young core of Puka Nacua, Kyren Williams, Jared Verse, Braden Fiske, Byron Young and Kobie Turner? Only one of those players is a first-round pick, while most of them were picked in the third round or later.
According to The Athletic's Jourdan Rodrigue, the Rams do their pre-draft scouting a little differently.
For one, Les Snead's crew doesn't conduct the allowed 30 in-person visits or private workouts, which are allowed by the NFL. Instead, Snead sends scouts to a visit a player at his college or high school, which doesn't need to be reported to the league as an official visit. This is why the Rams' interest rarely leaks, per Rodrigue.
The other big difference is the Rams don't send top decision-makers to big events but instead gather answers on player personality surveys they use for their internal scouting system, JAARS (Joint After-Action Review System). This is why you'll never see Snead or head coach Sean McVay at the NFL combine or the Senior Bowl.
Finally, Snead has a "call sheet" on draft night (Rodrigue describes it similarly to how a coach uses a call sheet during a game to call plays) that "split players by position into four overall tiers and nine different buckets." Snead uses this digital sheet to determine when to take which players.
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