The Rams treated their own grade as gospel and everyone else's as noise, spending pick No. 29 on Zachariah Branch a full 79 spots early.

They covered a lot of ground and still skipped running back, which is a strange place to end up. The roster is better shaped than it was, with wide receiver chief among the fixes.

It nets out as a middle-of-the-pack haul that neither helps nor hurts much.