St. Louis Rams: Why Trading Up for a Wide Receiver Would Be Worth It

April 6, 2011   ·   Steven Gerwel   ·   Jump to comments

Historically, it has only been wise to trade up in the draft if your team is one, or two pieces away from being competitive. 
Although no one in their right mind would advocate that the Rams are one wide receiver away from going to the Super Bowl, it would be fair to say that Rams are one primary receiver away from snatching the NFC West crown. And as far as winning playoff games? Well, Seattle won one this past season, so anything can happen if the Rams win the division in 2011. 
Sam Bradford had a great rookie season, and no one is taking that away from him. However, the Rams (or Bradford) attempted passes for 15 yards or more only 13.0 % of the time in 2010. 
Within that 13 percent, Bradford was only able to complete 23.5 percent of those passes, which is worse than any rookie quarterback since 2008, and he only had a quarterback rating of 43.1 when throwing for more than 15 yards (which was the second worst rating amongst rookie quarterbacks since 2008...

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