{"id":874981,"date":"2026-04-26T07:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:42:27","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-alabamas-tim-keenan-drafted-in-the-7th-round-by-the-los-angeles-rams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874981\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: Alabama\u2019s Tim Keenan drafted in the 7th Round by the Los Angeles Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Keenan has been a stalwart leader for the Crimson Tide<\/a> for a few years now, and I expected he would be drafted higher than the 7th round for his leadership, energy, and surprising disruptiveness for a nose tackle his size. Unfortunately, a lack of love for pure nose tackles, combined with a poor 40-yard showing this offseason, saw Keenan drop into the 7th.<\/p>\n

The L.A. Rams<\/a> benefited, though, pairing up Keenan with his Alabama teammate, Ty Simpson<\/a>. The Rams use a 3-4 scheme with a true nose tackle, unlike many NFL teams, so Keenan is a good fit for them, and he\u2019ll be backing up veteran Poona Ford<\/a>, who\u2019s under contract for two more years, but will be 32 by 2027. So Keenan has a good path to learn from a wily vet who\u2019s been very successful in the NFL despite frame and athletic limitations, then take over in a couple of years.<\/p>\n

Roll Tide, and best of luck, Tim!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Keenan has been a stalwart leader for the Crimson Tide for a few years now, and I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[52,930,332,406,7,3221,1014,58,2444,2611,6,24178,10997,424,37475,20708],"class_list":{"0":"post-874981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-alabama-crimson-tide","10":"tag-college-football-playoff","11":"tag-crimson-tide","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-l-a-rams","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-rams","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesrams","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-oklahoma-memorial-stadium","20":"tag-poona-ford","21":"tag-rams","22":"tag-tim-keenan-iii","23":"tag-ty-simpson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116469887347405907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874981","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=874981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}