If you’ve paid any attention to the Los Angeles Rams in the last five years or so, you know general manager Les Snead is always willing to make a deal. Whether it’s dealing picks for a player or moving down in the draft to accumulate more picks, Snead is always making calls.
When teams make deals involving picks during the draft, they typically use a trade value chart to gauge how much each pick is worth. It was originally developed by Jimmy Johnson but has since been refined over the years.
Rich Hill’s model is widely used now, giving fans a sense of what it would take for their team to trade up – or what they could get in return for trading down. Below is Hill’s chart for this year’s draft, showing exactly how much each of the Rams’ eight picks is worth.
Pick 104: 28 points
Pick 142: 11.9 points
Pick 175: 5.7 points
Pick 211: 2.5 points
Pick 212: 2.5 points
Pick 218: 2.2 points
Pick 238: 1.4 points
Pick 253: 1 point
Total: 55.2 points
The total value of the Rams’ eight picks is only 55.2 points. That’s comparable to the value of the 70th pick in the draft alone.
Obviously, the Rams would never trade all eight of their picks to the Jaguars for No. 70 overall, but that’s the equivalent of their entire class – which shows how much capital Los Angeles is lacking this year because of the absence of a first- and second-round pick.
But you can’t put a number on the value of a Super Bowl ring, which they won with the help of Matthew Stafford and Von Miller, two major trade acquisitions in 2021.
