Why the 'F Them Picks' Rams GM Would've Backed Browns' Proposal on NFL Draft Pick Trades

Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead, whose habit of trading first-rounders famously led to him saying "F them picks" while celebrating a Super Bowl win in 2022, would have voted for getting the chance to trade even more draft selections had he gotten the chance.

Snead told Kay Adams on Wednesday's Up & Adams Show he would have backed the Cleveland Browns' withdrawn proposal to allow teams to trade draft picks five years in the future had it gone to a vote.

"I would've said yes, but I would've liked to have heard the reasons for or against... and just get it discussed," Snead told Kay Adams.

The Browns ultimately pulled the proposal, which would have added two additional years of draft pick tradability. Teams are currently only allowed to move picks up to three years in the future.

Cleveland.com's Mary Kay Cabot reported after the Browns withdrew the proposal that the point of the submission had been "to get teams talking about it," and that the suggestion would likely be submitted again next year by the Browns or another team.

Snead has traded first-round picks in nine of the last 10 drafts, a pattern that led to him wearing a t-shirt printed with his own face and the phrase "F--k them picks" during the Rams' Super Bowl LVI victory parade in February 2022.

His latest comments came after Rams coach Sean McVay, a member of the NFL Competition Committee, told Adams the committee had voted 11-0 against the proposal and that the rule had a "zero percent chance" of getting through.

Snead said in his own appearance on the Up & Adams Show he didn't understand why the competition committee was so firmly against the proposal.

"There's too many checks and balances to say, 'You know what, we're just going to trade five first-round draft picks,'" Snead told Adams. "It would be interesting, if it would've gotten to the floor, would've been able to get discussed and get all the viewpoints on that."

Snead continued, "We're a pretty traditional league. So to put something on the table, probably that radical, and get it voted on... that was going to be tough. But it's in the ecosystem now, it's in the metaverse now. We're going to discuss it. So, maybe in time."

For now, 2029 and 2030 selections will remain off the table. Snead will only be able to trade picks from 2026, 2027 and 2028 as he heads into the draft later this month.

The Rams currently hold the No. 13 pick in the upcoming draft, although it remains to be seen if that selection will still be with Los Angeles by the time the draft kicks off on April 23. The franchise has only used first-round picks twice in the last decade (Jared Goff in 2016, Jared Verse in 2024).