The Los Angeles Rams have a lot of emerging talent on the defensive side of the ball. That’s all thanks to expert scouting and drafting by Les Snead and Sean McVay, but also quality coaching from defensive coordinator Chris Shula and the rest of the staff.
But are any of them All-Pro material? We already saw Jared Verse make the Pro Bowl and win Defensive Rookie of the Year, but making the All-Pro team is an even harder personal accolade to achieve.
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CBS Sports’ Josh Edwards used historical metrics to try to predict which players at all defensive positions could blossom into All-Pro players. Oddly enough, the only Rams player to make the cut was defensive tackle Kobie Turner — not Verse.
Turner was regarded as undersized coming out of Wake Forest a few years ago, but in his two professional seasons, has averaged 8.5 sacks. Los Angeles has done a phenomenal job revamping that defensive front, which creates a lot of one-on-one pass rush moments for all involved. It is assumed that Turner will continue receiving and capitalizing on those opportunities.
Verse, meanwhile, lost out to Will Anderson Jr. of the Houston Texans — another defending Defensive Rookie of the Year who has shown a lot of promise in limited time — for the linebacker All-Pro prediction slot.
This isn’t a perfect science, but what Edwards is trying to do is find patterns that give a glimpse of a potential future. Turner has proven to be a great interior defensive lineman who still has work to do to become elite. This could be the year he takes that leap.
This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Rams star predicted to become potential future All-Pro player