Los Angeles Rams: The most mind-boggling thing from 2019

The Los Angeles Rams’ 2019 season did not go how anyone would have hoped for and in the disappointing season, we noticed something completely mind-boggling.

The Los Angeles Rams entered the 2019 season with very high expectations after finishing last season with a 13-3 record and winning the NFC Championship. While the team was poor in the Super Bowl, there was a lot to build off of with a young core and a great new head coach.

Ultimately, the Rams experienced too many hiccups to overcome this season and could not repeat what they did last season and even make the playoffs. Because of some big missed kicks late in games and some poor performances from Jared Goff, the Rams could not do enough.

The team ended up finishing third in the NFC West but the team could absolutely contend for the division crown once again next season. If the team can improve the offensive line the sky is the limit next season.

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In looking at the offensive line, we came across something that is quite mind-boggling that we are still trying to wrap our heads around. Everyone knew going into the offseason that the Rams would have some things to address at the offensive line and the front office did not do enough to address those questions.

The team had the perfect opportunity to as well and passed it up in the 2019 NFL Draft, which is where the mind-boggling decision came into play. Instead of drafting a lineman in the third round of the draft after taking Taylor Rapp in the second round, the team instead decided to draft Darrell Henderson.

There was some excitement around this pick as Henderson had great film from college and was viewed as the guy that the Rams could bring in to lessen the workload on Todd Gurley, who still to this day has questions around his knee health.

The only problem is that Henderson was not that at all for the Rams in 2019. In fact, the third-round pick hardly even played and the Rams essentially used a third-round pick on a guy who was an emergency option in case Gurley got hurt.

Henderson carried the ball 39 times in 2019 for 147 yards. Yes, you read that correctly, the guy that the Rams selected in the third round averaged just over two carries per game this season.

I get that the Rams have more time to utilize Henderson and it is not like the team only had one season to utilize his abilities. However, as we see every single year, there are so many talented running backs coming out of college that the Rams easily could have simply waited a year and drafted a running back in 2020 if needed.

What was the point of using that pick for someone who you literally could have drafted in any other year and probably would have gotten the same result? Why ignore other needs on the team for someone who is not going to be in the gameplan whatsoever?

I am sure that the Los Angeles Rams planned to use Henderson in a bigger role in his rookie season when they drafted him, there is no way they would have drafted him otherwise.

But what ended up transpiring is sloppy player managing that did no favors for the team and forces the Rams not to make any mistakes in this year’s draft.