NFL Draft 2014: Teams That Need to Hit Big with First-Round Picks

April 12, 2014   ·   Adam Wells   ·   Jump to comments

Building a championship roster in the NFL starts with the draft. The easiest way to add talent comes during those three days when all 32 teams enter Radio City Music Hall, write down a player's name on a card and look toward their future. 
It's an easy cliche to say that teams have to hit on their first-round picks, but some franchises have proven to be more adept at this than others, which is why there's such a disparity between the haves and have-nots in the NFL. 
Some of the teams that struggle to draft well will try to make up for it in free agency, which often just leaves them with bloated contracts of aging players that hamstring the salary cap for years. That's not a good strategy to use if you want to get where the Seattle Seahawks are right now. 
Here are the teams that desperately need to find success with their first-round picks in May's draft. 
 
St. Louis Rams (First-round picks: No. 2 and 13)
Unlike the other teams th...

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