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Projecting the 2020 Rams lineup if all the backups had to start

No NFL team is going to look “good” after you lay out a projected starting offense and defense featuring non-starters. If you took all the backups in the league or a conference, or even in a talented division, maybe you could lay out an exciting first string on your depth chart. But let’s not pretend like this thought experiment was supposed to lay out a quality team for game day.

That’s not what a starting lineup of non-starters, by definition, is meant to look like. If you’re comparing it to the starting lineup. But relative to other teams perhaps we can start to gauge the depth of the 2020 LA Rams.