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Ranking the best Rams fits in the 2025 NFL Draft from 1-300.
The NFL Draft is just over a week away and at this point in the process, teams like the Los Angeles Rams are putting together the final touches to their big boards. It’s almost time to trust your scouting process and hope that everything goes well on the weekend of April 24.
One of the biggest changes that I made to my draft process this year was attempting to align it with the Rams’ process. This draft season, I’ve done the most pre-draft work in my short career. Between trips to Mobile and Indianapolis for the Senior Bowl and Combine, interviews with players, and conversations with people around the league, I feel like I have a solid grasp on the strengths of this draft class. In addition to all of the data that I keep, I also believe I have a pretty good grasp on what the Rams look for at each position.
An aspect of the NFL Draft that tends to get lost is that every team’s big board looks significantly different from each other. For example, in addition to rankings, teams tend to place players in buckets. These buckets differ from team to team. During Hard Knocks last season, the New York Giants draft board was released. The Giants color-coded specific players that represented character traits as well as potential injury and size concerns.
One of the big changes that I’ve made this year is placing players into “buckets”. The Athletic’s Jourdan Rodrigue wrote a piece called ‘Finding Rams,’ which outlined this bucketing process. Said Rodrigue,
“On his screen, which the scouts cannot see, Snead manipulates what he calls “the call sheet” as they discuss prospects. The sheet looks like a series of rectangles that split players by position into different buckets. There are no round-by-roun d grades, only four overall tiers into which players are then “bucketed.” By mid-April, all draft-eligible players are split into nine buckets based on the Rams’ finished evaluations, which include the medical and character checks completed in March and, for some, notes from Sugarman’s visits. The buckets aren’t always “rankings” — some are lateral to others.”
Those buckets are broken up into nine different categories which are:
I recently went through this bucketing process for every position outside of quarterback. Those breakdowns can all be found below:
