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Treveyon Henderson may be exactly what the Rams need to complement Kyren Williams
An underrated need for the Los Angeles Rams during the NFL Draft will be finding a running back that they can pair with Kyren Williams. While the team drafted Blake Corum last year and will hope to get more of him in year two, the Rams offense lacks explosiveness in the run game. Finding a running back that can hit the home run on any given play and adding variety to the running back room should be seen as a priority.
This is one of the deeper running back classes in recent memory. With that said, the Rams will have several players to choose from when it comes to finding that type of running back. The depth of the running back class will allow the Rams to address other needs earlier in the draft and then take a running back on day three.
Heading into the draft process, one of my goals was to try to match my evaluation process relatively close with how the Rams operate. Obviously, it will never be exact without actually being in the room. At the same time, based on the information that is public and matching player traits with what they’ve drafted in the past, it is possible to get a picture of the type of player the Rams draft and what that process looks like.
One of the big changes that I’ve made this year is placing players into “buckets”. The Athletic’s Jourdan Rodrigue 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-round 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:
These buckets aren’t rankings or necessarily even tiers. It’s simply a way for scouts to easily visualize the role that they see for a player at the next level and a way to define their fit on the roster. Players can be placed into multiple buckets as no single prospect is just one thing. As Rodrigue noted,...
