The L.A. Rams drafted Stanford kicker Joshua Karty in the sixth round of the 2024 NFL Draft and general manager Les Snead pulled the curtain back after to explain the team’s draft process. Some things were bigger needs than others, but no position was graded as being more “dire” to add talent than kicker.
“I guess we call it dire needs. One of them was kicker and we didn’t really handle that until the sixth, so there is an element of strategy monitoring that situation: How many you have, when are they going? What teams might be probable to draft a kicker,” Snead said in a press conference with head coach Sean McVay after the draft.