Did the Los Angeles Rams go too far in their desire to draft Florida State defensive end Braden Fiske in the second round on Friday? Probably, and a graph by ESPN’s analytics expert Seth Walder has visual proof of it.
When the Rams traded up from 52 to 39 last week and the details came out that L.A. gave up next year’s second round pick, I thought there must have been an error in the report. Teams do not trade second round picks to move up 13 spots in the second round. But Rams GM Les Snead did exactly that on Friday and there are two reasons that it really made no sense.