The Rams might make a first-round NFL draft selection for the first time since 2016, unless they trade. Whatever they do, the Rams will be armed with data about every player available.
“You’re getting back into your car and you’re going to the next school,” he says, “and the process starts again.”Scouts are forbidden from contacting players during their college careers, so January postseason all-star games such as the Senior Bowl in Alabama, the East-West Shrine Game in Florida and the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in Southern California offer their first chances to speak directly with prospects.
Rams scouts are assigned specific position groups and watch three days of practices, looking for opportunities to assess players in skills they did not get the opportunity to exhibit with their college teams.
After the practices — as they do every time a player is evaluated during the year — scouts grade players as hot, warm or cold, general manager Les Snead’s way of giving scouts opinions in the draft process. The scouts leave the day before the game. They watch it later on tape.In late February, more than 300 invited players travel to Indianapolis for the NFL scouting combine, where they are medically evaluated, interviewed and put through physical testing and fieldwork drills.
“You have kids that have never played before to the [possible] No. 1 pick,” says Billy Johnson, who scouts a Southeast region that includes Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana. “This is the last chance to stay alive, I guess.” The pro scouts acknowledge that when grading they must allow for development, especially from small-school players.
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