The Rams move up to select Fiske with the 39th overall pick and complete their set of Florida State pass rushers, who will step in to help fill the void created by Aaron Donald’s retirement last mo…
Former Florida State defensive linemen Jared Verse, right, and Braden Fiske hope to build on their chemistry after being selected by the Rams in the first and second rounds, respectively, of the NFL draft this week. HERMOSA BEACH — When he landed about 20 hours after being selected by the Rams in the first round of the NFL draft, Jared Verse was told he would have at least half an hour to change and decompress before heading to the team’s draft headquarters.
“I’m like, ‘Hey Fiske.’ ‘What’s up Jared?’ ‘Fiske that’s you?’” Verse recalled, his voice reaching a disbelieving falsetto. “We just kept talking, you could hear how much it meant to him, that moment.”The Rams selected Fiske with the 39th overall pick of the NFL draft, and the seventh selection of the second round. They traded a fifth-round pick on Saturday and their second-round pick in 2025 to the Carolina Panthers to move up from No.
“I’ve never in my life met somebody who works harder or just as hard as me until I met Fiske,” Verse said. “This guy’s in the training room, he’s in there an hour before me. I’m in the weight room, he comes in there five minutes later and I gotta extend my workout because I can’t let him be in there longer than me.”
“It got to that point in the season where you give that head nod and you just look at each other and we knew what was coming,” said Fiske, who did not talk to the Rams during the pre-draft process outside of a few texts with defensive line coach Giff Smith this week.
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