{"id":860745,"date":"2026-04-08T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860745\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:11:16","slug":"the-best-defensive-prospects-the-rams-can-target-in-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/860745\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Defensive Prospects the Rams Can Target in Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nfl\/teams\/los_angeles_rams\/60\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a>&#8216; second-round pick has become more important now that the Rams don&#8217;t have the luxury of selecting twice in the first round. They were able to keep their top 15 pick, which gives them a good chance of drafting someone special, but the 61st overall pick remains a big point of contention for them.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/rams\/onsi\/los-angeles-one-offensive-position-have-nothing-to-worry-about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Les Snead<\/a> has a good track record of being able to find hidden gems in days two and three of the draft, and there isn&#8217;t an offseason more important than this one where he does that. The Rams are at a crossroads between looking forward to the future and trying to be as competitive as possible now. What are some top defensive prospects they can target in the second round?<\/p>\n<p>Defensive Options in the Second Round<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Rams&#8216; second-round pick has become more important now that the Rams don&#8217;t have the luxury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-860745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-losangeles","12":"tag-losangelesrams","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116368788354125015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860745","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=860745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}