{"id":38147,"date":"2025-05-10T04:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T04:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/38147\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T04:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T04:28:14","slug":"get-to-know-new-rams-ilb-pooh-paul-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/38147\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know new Rams ILB Pooh Paul Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Chosen by The Athletic as the Rams&#8217; best value pick<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic had each beat writer covering their respective NFL team select each team&#8217;s best value pick from this year&#8217;s draft. Rams beat writer Jourdan Rodrigue chose Paul Jr., who is the first inside linebacker drafted by Los Angeles since Ernest Jones IV in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>(Subscription is required to read the full analysis <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6329917\/2025\/05\/05\/nfl-draft-best-value-picks-shedeur-sanders-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN Research, Paul Jr. did not allow a touchdown in 665 career coverage snaps during the 2024 season.<\/p>\n<p>3) Regarded as starter-level player acquired by the Rams in the fifth round<\/p>\n<p>East-West Shrine Bowl Director of Ops, Player Personnel Eric Galko had high praise for Paul Jr., one of the participants in this year&#8217;s event. Galko also said Paul Jr. was the only Power Four linebacker with a grade of 78 or higher in run defense, pass coverage and pass rush by Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1) Chosen by The Athletic as the Rams&#8217; best value pick The Athletic had each beat writer covering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[2102,7,6743,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-38147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-chris-paul-jr","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-get-to-know","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangelesrams","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114481653735185323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}