{"id":875060,"date":"2026-04-26T09:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875060\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:48:38","slug":"2026-nfl-draft-alabamas-tim-keenan-drafted-in-the-7th-round-by-the-los-angeles-rams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/875060\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NFL Draft: Alabama\u2019s Tim Keenan drafted in the 7th Round by the Los Angeles Rams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tim Keenan has been a stalwart leader for the Crimson Tide 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<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The L.A. Rams benefited, though, pairing up Keenan with his Alabama teammate, Ty Simpson. 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, 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<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,2444,2611,6,2387,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-875060","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-pros","15":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116470383111210901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875060","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=875060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}