The Tennessee Titans have traded their No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft to the Los Angeles Rams. The quick version: Tennessee now has six of the top 76 picks in this draft, plus two first-rounders next year and two third-rounders next year.
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What does that mean for the Ravens? Of the teams ahead of them, only the Cleveland Browns at No. 2 seemed likely to take a quarterback.
While it looks like the Rams gave up the farm to move up 14 spots to get a player they have no idea what he’s going to be, it really isn’t that much.
The last time an L.A. team had the No. 1 overall pick was 1963, when the Rams selected Oregon State quarterback Terry Baker.
All of those players would fill significant needs for the Ravens and make it very hard for them to trade back.
Before this trade went through, the Niners appeared to be in good shape in the upcoming draft with the seventh overall pick.
This thread is the fourteenth in a series that will continue to post every Thursday at noon right up through the first night of the draft, which is scheduled for Thursday, April 28, 2016. Then the Titans will have five picks in the first three rounds of 2017 with the additional first and third round selections.
The Rams, in need of a franchise quarterback on the field and for their new/old fans in Southern California, are likely to select one of the top two QB prospects in North Dakota State’s Carson Wentz or Cal’s Jared Goff.
For the Titans, the trade represented an opportunity to improve a depleted roster as they accumulated six of the first 76 picks in the draft. As far as I can tell, the Los Angeles Rams are not one player away…particularly if that player is a quarterback, which it nearly certainly is. The approval of the Rams in Inglewood ends a two-decade drought without an National Football League team in Los Angeles.
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Whatever the Rams do they better hope it pans out…The price for the move up is steep. But there’s more! They get the Rams’ first- and third-round selections in 2017. The Chargers came out with running back LaDanian Tomlinson and quarterback Drew Brees, among others.
