After spending first-, second-, third- and fourth-round draft choices on wide receivers in the 2012 and 2013 NFL drafts, the Los Angeles Rams found themselves content to see their young wideouts develop.
Those draft picks were spent on smaller, speedier types like Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey, a pure downfield burner in Chris Givens and a big, physical type in Brian Quick. In a perfect world, all would have developed and settled into the roles the Rams envisioned when they spent all of that draft capital.
In the time since, the Rams have said goodbye to Givens and Bailey remains on the road to recovery but his status is unclear after he was shot in the head twice just two days before Thanksgiving last season.