Over at Mocking the Draft they've been bringing SB Nation's NFL team bloggers together for a league-wide 2012 NFL Mock Draft, and when the time came for the St. Louis Rams (Ryan Van Bibber of Turf Show Times) to choose the unthinkable had happened: The Cleveland Browns, as we've long worried about, swooped in and selected Justin Blackmon. With the odds-on favorite off the table, the Mock-Rams selected Trent Richardson, going for Steven Jackson insurance as an alternative form of Sam Bradford enhancement.
I'm on the record as being against this move—I just don't think running backs are valuable enough, or marginally valuable enough—but if the Browns select Blackmon this seems like a likely outcome. Richardson isn't going to change the Rams' fortunes, though, and if you have any doubt about that ask yourself how they've done the last two years with Steven Jackson.
More NFL Mock Draft analysis from SB Nation St. Louis:
- Check out the Rams' draft order—with their shiny-ish new supplemental pick they now have eight shots at finding somebody better than Danny Amendola.
- For what it's worth, that same Ryan Van Bibber thinks the Rams will go with Justin Blackmon in his latest full mock draft.
- Of course, if you're inclined to worry about Blackmon falling to six feel free to read more of me worrying about Blackmon falling to six.