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2013 DBN Mock Draft: St. Louis Rams Select Alec Ogletree at No. 22

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With the 22nd pick in the 2013 Dawgs By Nature NFL Community Mock Draft, the St. Louis Rams select...

Alec Ogletree, LB, Georgia

This selection and write-up was made by nickjs21:

I'm not unhappy at all with this selection, but I had to chuckle when Cooper, Brown, and Cyprien went in the five picks since I took Tavon Austin. All three were strong considerations for #22. The Rams still need a safety and have an unhappy RT, but Ogletree represents the best player on the board for me and St. Louis figured to add a LB at some point in the draft.

The Rams have two-thirds of a strong LB corps already and a very underrated line, but in the NFC West you're never going to be able to stop adding to the front seven if you want to stack up with your neighbors. Ogletree adds versatility--he's a former safety who covers very well for a LB in addition to explosive closing speed--and a bit of a mean streak. He's already had to answer a number of off-field questions and will continue to do so for the month of April, but if there's one coach who has shown a willingness to value talent over reputation, it's Fisher. Ogletree is a raw athlete and he might take a season to really impact the team, but he should be chasing down Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick for years to come.

What I would be curious of is if any of the teams between the Rams' two picks would have taken Austin or not -- could nick have gotten one of his other preferred players earlier and Austin at this point? Still, the combination is good, but it'll be difficult for the Rams to compete with the powerhouses that are the 49ers and the Seahawks.

The Minnesota Vikings are up next, led by Legoman0721.

2013 DBN Community Mock Draft Results (so far)

Pick Team Player Pos School User
1 Kansas City Dee Milliner CB Alabama BuenosAires_Dawg
2 Jacksonville Dion Jordan DE/OLB Oregon Adrock2099
3 Oakland Luke Joeckel OT Texas A&M TuckJob
4 Philadelphia Eric Fisher OT Central Michigan Chalmdeezy
5 Detroit Ezekiel Ansah DE/OLB BYU macdowellm03
6 Cleveland Jarvis Jones OLB Georgia Cedarpoint2k3
7 Arizona Chance Warmack OG Alabama Mudville
8 Buffalo Geno Smith QB West Virginia Stigosaurus
9 New York Jets Cordarrelle Patterson WR Tennessee notthatnoise
10 Tennessee Kenny Vaccaro SS Texas pt_999
11 San Diego Lane Johnson OT Oklahoma JamesPowell
12 Miami Desmond Trufant CB Washington Weeden2Gordon
13 Tampa Bay Sherrif Floyd DT Florida LessThanJake
14 Carolina Star Lotulelei DT Utah rossn2007
15 New Orleans Damonte Moore DE/OLB Texas A&M Ted Washington's Belly
16 St. Louis Tavon Austin WR West Virginia nickjs21
17 Pittsburgh Sheldon Richardson DT Missouri HenryDawg
18 Dallas Jonathan Cooper OG UNC jimkanicki
19 New York Giants Alex Okafor DE Texas Red-Right-88
20 Chicago Arthur Brown LB Kansas State PaduaDSP
21 Cincinnati Jonathan Cyprien SS FIU troy145
22 St. Louis Alec Ogletree LB Georgia nickjs21
23 Minnesota Legoman0721
24 Indianapolis Mike Krupka
25 Minnesota Legoman0721
26 Green Bay Jon Stinchcomb
27 Houston The B-Train
28 Denver KillerNut
29 New England roar888
30 Atlanta Matt Wood
31 San Francisco rufio
32 Baltimore Ecwingen