Analysis: Again, Rams succeed in exploiting value of draft’s middle rounds

THOUSAND OAKS — Here they were again, wading through the middle rounds, scraping up value wherever they could find it. An All-American safety with a slow 40 time. An All-Pac-12 nose tackle with iffy measurables. An offensive lineman who struggled through injury. An athletic linebacker who’d once been expelled.
Over the first two drafts of Coach Sean McVay’s tenure, when a series of big trades left them barren of picks, this value shopping approach to the draft had become the Ra