Chillar to Green Bay

There was little expectation Brandon Chillar would return to the Rams this year, and the team did their level best to make that prediction good by only offering a 1-year, $1 million contract. Chillar went to Green Bay instead, for a 2-year contract worth $2.7 million, if I remembered correctly. That's a curious offer from Green Bay, who already have one of the league's best LB units in AJ Hawk, Nick Barnett and Brady Poppinga. It certainly looks like they'll stay loaded at the position.

Meanwhile, the Rams' offseason of sitting around while the team gets worse continues. Chillar's successor will be either Chris Draft, who didn't beat him out last year, or Quinton Culberson, who's only slightly less raw than sashimi. By failing to make Chillar even a modest offer (in NFL terms), they've created another hole, another need to fill, that they could easily have afforded to avoid.

Good luck to Brandon up north, and good luck to probably Culberson in taking over.

Combine this with the Rams' CB situation, and they're sure counting on some young guys to step up this season.