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Rams: (#13) 1st Round QB Ty Simpson
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Mike Tannenbaum liking the selection is the only thing that gives me pause about the decision.
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Les Snead on Ty Simpson meeting: We didn't want teams to know our interest
After the Rams drafted quarterback Ty Simpson with the 13th pick last week, Simpson indicated that he'd never met with Rams head coach Sean McVay or General Manager Les Snead as part of the pre-draft process.
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After the Rams drafted quarterback Ty Simpson with the 13th pick last week, Simpson indicated that he’d never met with Rams head coach Sean McVay or General Manager Les Snead as part of the pre-draft process.
Simpson backtracked on that a few days later and Snead provided some more background on their interactions during a Tuesday appearance on The Pat McAfee Show. Many prospects take visits to team facilities in the weeks leading up to the draft, but the Rams have historically avoided those and Snead said that is because the 30 visits allotted to each team become known to the entire league.
Snead said that can lead to missing out on desired targets thanks to other teams trading up and that the Rams prefer to go visit players because those meetings don’t need to be reported. Snead said that they made 66 such meetings in this year’s draft process and shared what they tell players about publicizing the interactions.
“We do like to emphasize ‘Hey, look, try to keep these private meetings between us,’” Snead said. “For that gamesmanship. We like for other teams not to know that we’re interested. We do emphasize that a little stronger.”
Snead said that Simpson took that to heart after meeting with both McVay and Snead and “stayed on script” longer than necessary in his first comments after being drafted. Snead also added that McVay would never be on board with drafting a quarterback that he’d never met, which helps clear up the path that led Simpson to the Rams to start his NFL career.
I have done some of this and I saw them doing it similarly until the Alabama oline fell apart and I never saw similar play from Purdys Oline. It's part of why I'm still baffled Proctor was a 1st round pick. He wasnt good at all.
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Okay, I'm saying this without looking at Purdy's college tape but my guess is he had an oline that held up quite a bit more.
One aspect of Simpson that you could argue bodes well for him is how historically bad his oline was.
Purdy was incredibly efficient, intelligent, and accurate in the short to intermediate range. I do think there's a lot of similarities there with how advanced their footwork and throwing mechanics were as prospects, and they both routinely threw with anticipation you rarely ever see from college QBs.
As you mentioned, the one difference with Purdy that made him a 7th rounder is the obvious lack of arm strength. To this day, I don't think I've ever seen him complete a deep ball over 45+ air yards and he needs to hitch and put all of his body into those throws that are 40 yards down the field. I even went back to his combine performance and he couldn't make those throws in a controlled environment. Not quite a Jimmy Clausen noodle arm, but I think Stetson Bennett almost certainly has a stronger arm than Purdy does.
I think before the draft I severely underestimated how strong Simpson's arm is with the amount of zip he can put on those intermediate balls and how he can flick it 60+ yards down the field off platform with pressure in his face. Unfortunately, so far his downfield accuracy has been very scattershot with a lot of overthrows but when he can start to dial those passes in I think he'll be in that rare air of NFL QBs that can make literally any throw in the playbook.
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I believe part of the accuracy breakdown on deep throws is the fact that he doesn't have the arm strength, everything has to be right from the feet to the torso, to the follow through.
Could be. We'll see what a few years dialed in an NFL strength and conditioning program does for him before he hits the field again.
I would just like to take this moment to point out that I called the Simpson pick. 
Although I fell in love with Omar Cooper Jr. (after a trade down), I thought the smart move by a well run organization would be a QB of the future. The upside of this pick hitting can not be overstated.
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Although I fell in love with Omar Cooper Jr. (after a trade down), I thought the smart move by a well run organization would be a QB of the future. The upside of this pick hitting can not be overstated.
Receipt:
Early Draft Day 2026 Best Guesses
McCoy & Tyson are available due to injury history, I am leaving them there and dealing with the regret if they pan out. @Memphis Ram your 12 players make it very tough @13, If you have injury concerns like I do it leaves in my eyes this group as my top 3 Great question and top 12 Lemon...
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Good call to you and others that made that prediction. It isn't always easy trying to pinpoint who the Rams will actually draft. We now know they pick up prospects Old School movie style to interview them later at a secret location.I would just like to take this moment to point out that I called the Simpson pick.
Although I fell in love with Omar Cooper Jr. (after a trade down), I thought the smart move by a well run organization would be a QB of the future. The upside of this pick hitting can not be overstated.
Receipt:
Early Draft Day 2026 Best Guesses
McCoy & Tyson are available due to injury history, I am leaving them there and dealing with the regret if they pan out. @Memphis Ram your 12 players make it very tough @13, If you have injury concerns like I do it leaves in my eyes this group as my top 3 Great question and top 12 Lemon...
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Looking at that same tape again I was specifically looking at his footwork. He throws one 60 yds. into the end zone while standing flat-footed. I think it's the third clip.
And there's two of them he throws straight as an arrow hard as hell that look like they're on a rope where he's also standing flat-footed. All while scrambling. I wouldn't compare his arm to Purdy at all. Looks much stronger to me.
Could totally see this. So yeah, we couldve picked up a 3rd and most likely gotten Simpson at 17. Once Proctor went to Miami, deal was off.
Flip side is we could've gotten leapfrogged by Arizona for Ty, OR Jets could have taken him at 16.
I'm fine using 13 on Ty and not fuckin around or FAFO.