You might be thinking that the L.A. Rams are likely to trade their first round pick simply because they are the L.A. Rams, the heavily-repeated and most known fact about Les Snead’s regime being that the franchise hasn’t actually selected a player on day one since Jared Goff in 2016, but there’s another reason for it happening this year that is just as easy to understand.
The Rams have the 19th overall pick in the draft and that simply might be the worst possible spot for L.A. to have a first round pick: Too low in the draft order to get a blue chip prospect with a true first round grade, which is too low for Snead and Sean McVay to really have any choice other than to use their first rounder as a weapon to acquire something else.