Rams: (#13) 1st Round QB Ty Simpson

[Coliseum Ram]

Maybe there will be 6. What range do you expect them to be drafted?

There are probably at least 5 teams that want QBs next year. My guess is the franchise caliber QBs will be gone around pick 12.

If we're in the 32nd range as expected, it will be pretty difficult, if not impossible, to get into that range to draft one of these QBs.

This is the point that nobody factors in. The fact that we had such a high pick due to having the pick of an INFERIOR team!

We dont start next years Draft with picks 13 and 29 folks, we are far more likely to end up with a Quarterback not as good as the one we just got.

 

[Tano]

Could you name them?
And would they all be good fits for the offense?

And what's you expectation as to what it would take for a team selecting at the bottom of the 1st round to trade up for one?

Maybe maybe not but it's the bursitis and lower back issue that really bother me.

I would rather take a chance on healthy QBs who have played at least 2 years and who may drop a little in the draft that we can move up to 20 to grab.

But that's just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions.

 

[Memphis Ram]

Maybe maybe not but it's the bursitis and lower back issue that really bother me.

I would rather take a chance on healthy QBs who have played at least 2 years and who may drop a little in the draft that we can move up to 20 to grab.

But that's just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions.

Bursitis seems pretty minor to me. Not sure about the lower back issue. But, either way, I can't help but to believe that this team with it's medical staff would OK this kid if there were any chronic issues.

I'd rather the team pick up one on day three in the draft. But, again, team needs don't influence player availability.

I, too, would have love to have seen more than 15 starts. But of the QBs in the past who have failed in the league with that many or fewer starts, not one looked as good as Simpson did for a stretch this year, was on a NFL good team with a coach like McVay and got to sit and learn for a season. At least I can't think of one.

 

[Coliseum Ram]

Maybe maybe not but it's the bursitis and lower back issue that really bother me.

I would rather take a chance on healthy QBs who have played at least 2 years and who may drop a little in the draft that we can move up to 20 to grab.

But that's just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions.

You DO realize, as you quote, in your words, there are "at least 6" Quarterbacks as good as Simpson in next years Draft, that coming into THIS year there were "six" so-called 1st Round Quarterbacks. The 2 that got Drafted, and Beck, Allar, Klubnik, and Nussmeier. How did that all work out for the last 4? I expect more of the same next year. Either that or a gaggle of QBs like the 24 draft 1st round where most are questionable, Penix, McCarthy and the jury still out on Daniels, Maye, Caleb even.

No I'm just fine that we got our FQOTF in this here '26 Draft. I think it was a sly, maater move.

But I also acknowledge I could be proven wrong on this in time, we'll see. But I'm very confident in this kid. As im sure Les and Sean were/are.

 

[OldSchool]

View: https://x.com/RamsNFL/status/2048465252296339458?s=20

 

[PhillyRam]

Thing is I believe at least 6 QBs will be as good as Simpson next year. I could be wrong but at least they likely will not have elbow bursitis or lower back issues.

And two yrs ago, 6 QBs were off the board by pick 12. You want to trade a couple very high picks to move up to get the 6th best QB next year who may or may not be as good as Simpson?

And if Stafford is back next year, wouldn't that also be an "all in year"? Yet, we would be trading multiple picks to get a guy to sit on the bench in 27', and that you would be okay with?

Also, something that struck me. Last year they had a 6 player draft class, only 5 remain. This year it's only a 5 player class. They will need a couple of high volume classes in the next few years. So having to mortgage future drafts to trade up for a guy will hurt.

So here they had to burn one pick in a draft that was weak at the top. That is a pretty cheap price to pay for a kid who appears to be a perfect fit for McVay from a mental standpoint, which might be the most important aspect in a QB for McVay.

Watch Chase Daniels podcast where he interviews Simpson. He has the same recall and photographic type memory as McVay. The kid is a football nerd just like McVay.

 

[dieterbrock]

In all my years of being an NFL draftnik there have been very few QBs that looked like legit NFL QBs while in college the way Simpson did for a good stretch last year. He looked like the perfect McVay/Shanahan WCO QB.

And this was behind a questionable OLine, the 125th ranked rushing attack, and WRs dropping passes left and right.

NFL Draft 101. When you get a chance to grab a potential franchise QB you take him because immediate need does not influence player availability and that opportunity doesn't come around very often.

100%

 

[Merlin]

The ONLY guy I would consider drafting, without giving it much thought, over Ty Simpson THIS year, is Arch Manning.

 

[Merlin]

Bursitis seems pretty minor to me. Not sure about the lower back issue. But, either way, I can't help but to believe that this team with it's medical staff would OK this kid if there were any chronic issues.

I'm sure his medicals were clean. No way in hell the Rams take him at 13 without that being the case.

 

[xander47]

It's a legitimate concern. We'll find out.

Anyone with film breakdowns experience to see the difference in Bennett’s progression the past 3 years. I know he’s dubbed a back up, but I think I’ve seen a tick in arm strength with him. Just trying to extrapolate bennetts progress to Simpson. We all know preseason ball is vanilla as well as terrible oline play.

 

[HitStick]

Maybe maybe not but it's the bursitis and lower back issue that really bother me.

I would rather take a chance on healthy QBs who have played at least 2 years and who may drop a little in the draft that we can move up to 20 to grab.

But that's just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions.

Bursitis is the most non issue thing a quarterback could have.

I’ll give you the lower back thing. Don’t even know what the issue truly was with it.

Good thing he’ll have plenty of time to heal

 

[dang]

Thing is I believe at least 6 QBs will be as good as Simpson next year. I could be wrong but at least they likely will not have elbow bursitis or lower back issues.

The question remains…Which of those would be available at R1.28+?

 

[jap]

She also brings up an interesting point about the development of Simpson. She first states that McVay is busy gameplanning the offense and even involved in the defensive meetings. He is not working with a young backup QB or even a starting QB on his fundamentals and development in general.


So then considering the Rams go through offensive coaches almost annually. So how will that affect Simpson's development if his position coach leaves (Ragone) or the passing game coordinator or OC, etc. If they go through many of these guys over the next few years, which will happen if they remain successful, will that hamper Simpson? Will McVay get frustrated easily if Simpson cant keep pace with him as Jourdan put it?

This may be viewed as an unusual take, but if Matthew is really impressed by Ty as a bright student, I wonder if he would have Ty do film studies with him so the rookie can see how Matthew breaks down opponent strengths & weaknesses and game plans for them. That would be such a rich environment for Ty to grow in.

 

[HitStick]

This may be viewed as an unusual take, but if Matthew is really impressed by Ty as a bright student, I wonder if he would have Ty do film studies with him so the rookie can see how Matthew breaks down opponent strengths & weaknesses and game plans for them. That would be such a rich environment for Ty to grow in.

Staff has stated on multiple occasions that it’s always an open door. He just shows up early to break down film and anyone can be apart of it. Kupp joining him happened organically

 

[majrleaged]

I'm glad Jourdan broke it all down. It's really annoying how many Rams fans refuse to admit that they were wrong about this and still insist that Sean and Les weren't on the same page, even after Sean told them they're wrong.

Here is another interview with Assistant GM and Director of Scouting. They put a lot of context to all of the draft picks, but especially QB
Assistant GM

 

[Boomhauer]

Stafford needs a successor and obviously those who make the decisions think this kid could be just that. He will have a great staff and a role model around him and will just see how he develops. I know some may have preferred to look at other areas of need first, but I am ok with this pick.

Some of the hysterics from some corners of Ram fandom is quite laughable though tbh.

 

[snackdaddy]

The ONLY guy I would consider drafting, without giving it much thought, over Ty Simpson THIS year, is Arch Manning. Combined with the fact that we should have nowhere NEAR the 13th pick to actually have the ammo to GET a top guy, I'm not of the opinion or will declare I'd rather have a Dante Moore, a Julian Sayin, a LaNorris Sellers, rather than Simpson necessarily, no F-ing way. Give me the guy with the brain. Someone else can have the physical freak that ends up like RG III or what Jayden Daniels is shaping up to be (that would be, not much, IMHO). Let the other teams go ape shit leapfrogging each other next draft, not our problem and we have our future Franchise guy for the price of, as Vinny said, handing a slip to the Commissioner.

Sure, I'd love a guy like Manning. But that isn't realistic. We won't have the resources to trade all the way up to number one. Other teams with higher picks are in better shape for a move like that.

 

[DzRams]

This is the point that nobody factors in. The fact that we had such a high pick due to having the pick of an INFERIOR team!

We dont start next years Draft with picks 13 and 29 folks, we are far more likely to end up with a Quarterback not as good as the one we just got.

I've been asking this question for months. I haven't heard a solid succession plan from those who didn't like Simpson. It was mostly just hope and prayers that something good would materialize.

 

[Coliseum Ram]

I've been asking this question for months. I haven't heard a solid succession plan from those who didn't like Simpson. It was mostly just hope and prayers that something good would materialize.

That, and the unproven '27 Draft Class.

 

[FrantikRam]

I think it was Cowherd went and got some quotes from some of McVays press conferences in August about Staffords back.

It's easy for us to sit here and, with the way the season went, forget that was a thing. McVay was saying things like "were trying to wrap our arms around this and understand it".

In August....

We won the Super Bowl in 2021. And we didn't have a high pick - but if we did and had drafted a QB then, everyone would have been saying similar things to now. And then Stafford got hurt in 2022.

Its really this simple....if they believe in the kid, it was the right pick plain and simple.