Les Snead gives awesome insight into Rams' draft process and prospect meetings

The Los Angeles Rams take an unconventional approach to the NFL draft. Les Snead and Sean McVay haven’t attended the combine in Indianapolis since 2020, nor have they been spotted at many pro days over the years. And when it comes to prospect meetings, the Rams don’t bring players to their facility for official top-30 visits like the majority of other teams do.

It’s not because they don’t value the draft. They just have their own way of evaluating players from afar. With so much talk about the Rams and their hidden interest in Ty Simpson this year, Les Snead felt compelled to clear things up.

He was on the “Pat McAfee Show” on Tuesday and explained exactly what goes into combine meetings, top-30 visits and more. “Here’s probably where it all starts and we’ll get into the boring weeds of the NFL,” he began. “There’s top-30s.

Let’s start with the combine. At the combine, you can interview 45 people, let’s call it officially, 18 to 20 minutes. There’s some other – I forget what they’re called now, where you can interview people in other settings.