LOS ANGELES — Don’t look now, but Byron Young is allowing himself to dream again.Just seven years ago, the Los Angeles Rams outside linebacker was behind a cash register at Dollar General. Now, he’s entering his fourth year in the NFL. Just three years ago, he heard team after team tell him he was too old as a rookie to be on their radar, and now he’s a Pro Bowler fresh off a 12-sack season.Ask Young about where he is after 27.5 sacks in three seasons, and he describes his standing in basic terms: Reliable. Dependable.But to really know Young, you have to ask where he’s going. That’s the Dollar General employee turned tryout football player turned military student turned statistical anomaly in him.“I need to get to All-Pro,” Young said. “I need to be a guy where when it comes to that third down and long and we need to have it, I come through. I’ll force a bad play or force a bad decision. That’s what it is for me. I want to be that guy where they look to find, ‘OK, we need a stop. We’re behind. Or we need to seal the deal.’ I want to be one of those crunch-time situation guys.”“Someone like Myles Garrett.”Yes, he went there.That’s how dreams work. They can sound crazy to the outside world, but what matters is if there’s a piece of them that makes sense to the heart.And perhaps nobody has a better view of what this outrageously high bar looks like than Young.The Rams’ offseason blockbuster trade to send Jared Verse to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for a two-time Defensive Player of the Year and the NFL’s all-time single-season sack record holder did something to the vision sitting in Young as he enters a contract year.He was so close with Verse, and the two built a terrific tandem, with Verse’s power collapsing the pocket to force a panicked quarterback into open grass so a speedy Young could chase him down. That duo landed two edge rushers in the Pro Bowl and had the Rams on the doorstep of the Super Bowl last season.But like Young, Verse was a player ascending but not yet ascended. Garrett is a supercharged version, as he would be in upgrading just about any pass rusher. That’s what 125.5 sacks in nine seasons can do, and Young knows what that aura looks like after spending his rookie season on a line with Aaron Donald.So, as Garrett begins to settle into a new home in Los Angeles, he has Young in his ear and in his shadow nearly everywhere in these various team settings.“I just ask the questions,” Young said. “I ask for his thoughts on certain rushes and certain plays and why do you think like that?”Garrett is an introspective character. He’ll allow his mind to zoom out a thousand feet from the spot where his 6-foot-4, 272-pound body with a chiseled six-pack is throwing a tackle onto his back and into a quarterback’s stomach. Garrett recently told Young that he has never once had a pass rush rep where he didn’t believe he could make the sack.