The Rams have traded Adam Carriker, pick #163 in the 5th round and pick #208 in the 7th round to the Redskins for pick #135 in the 5th round and pick #211 in the 7th round. That they got any value at all for Carriker is a mild cause for celebration; I'll never be convinced he would have made the team last training camp. He lucked out at the public team scrimmage by getting a season-ending shoulder injury that allowed him to spend the '09 season here on IR.
(Yes, they actually traded DOWN in the 7th round and sent Carriker to the Redskins to move up in the 5th.)
Carriker's short career here got off to a decent start, but as with almost every other first-round DT picked by the Rams the last decade, he quickly turned into a shopping cart in the middle of a Rams defense that continued to get run over, and provided nothing close to the impact a team needs to get from a top-half of the first round pick. He needed shoulder surgery after his rookie season, struggled with that and ankle injuries throughout '08, and sprained an ankle again in '09 training camp before bowing out with the second major shoulder injury of his career.
Jim Haslett was eager to bring Carriker to Washington, and he'll play end in a 3-4 there, so he'll be better cast there than he was here. I'll always remember Carriker as the guy who taught me it's best not to draft 3-4 ends to play 4-3 tackle.
The trade leaves 5th-round pick Cliff Ryan as the only member of the Rams' 2007 draft class still on the team.
In unrelated news, Torry Holt has signed with the New England Patriots.
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