The Los Angeles Rams own seven picks in the 2020 NFL Draft, but knowing general manager Les Snead’s penchant for trading, he’s bound to make a deal or two this weekend. Whether that’s moving up from No. 52 overall by packaging a third-round pick, or possibly moving down from No. 57 to acquire more selections in the middle rounds, Snead is likely to make a trade or two at some point.
The starting point in any trade for most teams comes with the trade value chart, which assigns a point value to each pick in the draft. It was originally devised by Jimmy Johnson in the 1990s, and has since been tweaked by others.
When it comes to the Rams’ picks in this week’s draft, we used Johnson’s model to find out just how valuable Los Angeles’ selections are. Here’s the point value of each pick for the Rams, and on the chart below, you can see the value of every selection from No. 1 to 255.
- No. 52 (2nd round): 380 points
- No. 57 (2nd round): 330 points
- No. 84 (3rd round): 170 points
- No. 104 (3rd round): 86 points
- No. 126 (4th round): 46 points
- No. 199 (6th round): 10.6 points
- No. 234 (7th round): 1 point
- Total: 1,023.6 points
If the Rams were to package their two second-round picks together, they could go up to No. 25 or 26 overall. If they wanted to move up from No. 84 to, say, No. 75, they could send that pick and No. 126 to the Colts for the 75th overall selection.
They have a number of options at their disposal with four top-105 picks, whether it’s moving up or down the board.
