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wvParticipantWell is it at all concerning that Ty could not beat out Bryce Young in 2022, or Milroe in 2023 and 2024 ?
Was it ever a competition?
Sounds more like the coach just had his qbs slotted and went with it.
I saw this on the internet but who knows.
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Veto F. Roley
Studied at Washington University in St. Louis
Author has 6.7K answers and 10.1M answer views8moFirst, Ty Simpson was not named the starter against South Florida in 2023, Ty Buchner was.
In 2023, Buchner transferred from Notre Dame to Alabama to compete for the starting quarterback job. Jalen Milroe had started a couple of games for Alabama after Bryce Young was briefly injured in 2022. In these limited starts, Milroe looked like a very talented backup, which is to say that he made some eye-popping, athletic plays, but was inconsistent. In Fall 2023 practice, Milroe won the job over Buchner and Simpson. He led the Tide to a 56–7 stomping of Middle Tennessee State to open the season. But, in Week 2, Milroe struggled against Texas, throwing two critical interceptions, in a 34–24 Bama loss.
Against South Florida, Coach Nick Saban decided to see if Buchner, who had considerable experience behind center with Notre Dame, could do better than Milroe. Buchner, who played the first half, was not good, going 5-of-14 for 34 yards. Simpson came in, did not look up to being the Alabama quarterback, but was 5-of-9 for 74 yards and led the Tide to two second-half touchdowns in the 17–3 win. Simpson did not throw for a score, but ran for a touchdown. The next week, against Ole Miss, Milroe was back as the Alabama starting quarterback — he was clearly the best of the three even if he was inconsistent — and Milroe led the Tide to a 24–10 win.
As the season went on, Milroe got better and more confident. Simpson also got better and become more confident so much so he was the second-string quarterback over Buchner over the second half of the season. Milroe led the Tide to a spot in the playoffs and had Alabama in position to win on a fourth-and-three with one play left in the game against eventual national champs Michigan. The play call was for Milroe to run the ball and score. However, a bad snap caused timing issues with the play and Milroe was stopped short of the goal line. I have always wondered what would have happened if the snap was good and Milroe was able to carry out the play as planned.
wvParticipantThe Rams selected Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson with the 13th overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. He sat behind Bryce Young and Jalen Milroe for three seasons before getting his shot to start as a senior in 2025…
Well is it at all concerning that Ty could not beat out Bryce Young in 2022, or Milroe in 2023 and 2024 ?
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vApril 30, 2026 at 6:35 pm in reply to: Rams draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163770wvParticipantAt the end of the vid, Steve says according to HIS metrics the Rams are the best drafting team since 2018.
wvParticipantIf Simpson pans out, he will add a couple of dimensions Stafford doesn’t have. Simpson can actually move. He can run with the ball, and he can bail on a crowded pocket and throw on the move…
Do you feel super-blessed ?
wvParticipantnot sure i’m a believer, but i’ll root for him.
i would have chosen sadiq.
Its gonna be tough to adjust to ‘any’ QB after watching Stafford and his no-look-darts and ridiculous-tight-window throws. Ah well.
Sadiq? You know, i think i would have gone with R.Bain. Add Bain to that defense, with the new secondary and…oh yeah. It’d be like having two Verses.
I would feel a lot better about Ty, if they pick up a good veteran WR. Whats Robert Woods doing?
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vwvParticipantSchrager: “…they were very close to getting AJ Brown…they thought they were at the finish line…”
Interesting.
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vwvParticipantI was not excited about the CJ pick, but…damn. After that crying-vid i gotta root for the kid now.
He reminds me a little bit of Stedman Bailey, btw.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantSometimes ya gotta slow down to feel the speed up.
wvParticipantwvParticipantOk, Ty is our guy now, so we are all gonna root for him, etc etc.
But just curious about what you guyz would do, if you could make the pick at 13, and
you had these choices (all players that went after pick 13) :1 Ty simpson
2 Reuben Bain, Edge, Miami
3 M.Lemon, WR, USC
4 Blake Miller, OT, Clemson
5 KC Concecion, WR, Texas AM
6 Kenyon Sadiq, TE, Oregon
7 Omar Cooper, wR, IndianaI get all the rational/reasonable reasons for taking Ty. But, man, picture adding Bain to the rotation on the DLine this year. Or Lemon to offense. I would have taken either of those two If I had been picking.
There’s a lot to like about the Ty pick, though. I get that. Intriguing, bold, gamble by McSnead.
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vwvParticipantOld school football: dont be too nice
wvParticipantWhats the plan if Stafford goes down for a month or so?
What if its in the first part of the season — is Ty-15-college-starts going to be the Rams back-up QB? Or are they keeping Stetson and carrying three QBs?
Whats the back-up QB plan?
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vwvParticipant“..This and last year’s draft classes both hint at a team identifying players who should contribute two or three years into their career,
not immediately — therefore stockpiling additional cheap contracts.”I dont really understand this. I certainly dont understand how drafting ‘players who should contribute two or three years’ later equals ‘stockpiling additional cheap contracts.’
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vwvParticipantBrowns took an excellent OT prospect and 2 of the best WR prospects that we were all familiar with.
It would not surprise me if the Browns and Bengals finished ahead of the Steelers and Ravens.
1 (9) Fano OT
1 (24) KC Concepcion WR
2 (39) D.Boston WR
2 (58) McNeil-Warren S
3 (86) Barber OT
5 (146) Brailsford C
5 (149) Jefferson LB
5 (170) Royer TE
6 (182) T.Green QB
7 (248) Ryan TEwvParticipantInteresting pick by the Eagles.
wvParticipantAmong the NFL free agents still available:
WR Tyreek Hill
CB L’Jarius Sneed
I think they should sign Tyreek and L’Jarius.
Maybe Travis Kelce as well.
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vwvParticipantTy keeps his receipts.
wvParticipantGreg Olsen on Ty
wvParticipantTy Simpson, apparently has a lot of experience behind bad Olines.
April 26, 2026 at 9:54 pm in reply to: Rams draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163661wvParticipantwvParticipantSeems like that will create a tsunami of great players will hit next year. They can’t stay in college forever.
I read that Ty made 800,000 at Alabama.
According to A.I.
“Miami offered Simpson approximately $6.5 million, with other schools like Tennessee and Ole Miss offering between $4–6.5 million to enter the transfer portal.
NFL Comparison: By entering the 2026 NFL draft, Simpson’s rookie contract with the Los Angeles Rams is projected to be around $25.4 million, with $4.6 million in the first year”
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vwvParticipantI guess its clear now that the Name-Image-Likeness (NIL) money has allowed kids to stay in college and so the later rounds of the draft just arent going to be as good anymore. Maybe no more Pukas in the 6th round, etc.
“last year rounds 6-7 wiped out because of NIL. This year rounds 4-7 wiped out because of NIL”
April 26, 2026 at 4:30 pm in reply to: Rams draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163648wvParticipantMike Greenberg: “Its a terrible pick”
wvParticipantIn fact he may have the best legs of any decent starting qb they’ve had since I first started watching them. Not a Vick, but good enough.
Yeah, i stand corrected on the mobility thing. He’s in the Purdy category as far as running. He’s actually a bit faster than Purdy according to 40 times.
Though, fwiw, the analyst in one of the vids i posted up there said Ty was not very accurate when passing on the run.
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vwvParticipantWhen I first started reading your post, I immediately thought of Brees. But then you mentioned him.
Fwiw Joe Montana was 6’2, 200.
It’s a different era of course but great 6’0 and 6’1 qbs include Bart Starr, Unitas, Fran Tarkenton, Sonny Jurgensen, Len Dawson, Joe Theismann, and Billy Kilmer.
So oh ye, be it known-eth, it has-eth been done-eth.
Yeah, i thought of those golden-agers. Fran had a good career, of course, too. I just dont think we can compare the 70’s guys to todays players. I tend to think of todays era as starting in the 90s, maybe? I dunno.
Back in the old days Roman Gabriel was one of the few tall QBs. He was 6’4 and 220 or so, as i recall. I remember having a magazine back in 1970 or so, with an article about Roman. (i kept it for, like 30 years). The article was about how Roman Gabriel represented the coming age of ‘giant’ quarterbacks. The new prototype.
I also separate out the ‘mobile’ QBs from the pocket guys. I think of Ty as a Pocket QB. A smallish pocket QB in the modern era. So ya got Brees, and….not much else that i can remember from the 90’s on.
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vApril 26, 2026 at 10:57 am in reply to: Rams draft grades & assessments from everyone (including us) #163624wvParticipantGeneral assessment? Hmmmm.
Ty Simpson, Klare, Trost, CJ Daniels, Keenan.
Sigh. Well, there’s not a single player there I’m really excited about.
Like everybody else, I’ll just wait and see, and hope for the best, of course. But I cant remember a McSnead draft that i was less excited about.
Bring on the Undrafted kids. I’d love to see them add a couple special-teams demons.
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vwvParticipantSo Lemon went to the Eagles in that unusual trade with the Cowboys.
In wv-brain, Lemon and Ty are now forever linked.
Like Suh and Bradford, or Goff and Wentz.
I shall keep my eye on Lemon and the Eagles.
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vwvParticipantOr his wife got mad because she found out that day that the Rams intended to draft a quarterback at 13. I can just hear the squabble. “The man I married would have taken a receiver.”
All i know is we now need an ‘angry shark’ emoji around here.
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vwvParticipantBrock Purdy is also 6’1″.
Brock Purdy isn’t Matthew Stafford, but he’s good enough. And if the Rams got Brock Purdy for close to Free, then that’s a W.
The question is: can McVay develop a QB? I would think he will be more patient because he doesn’t want to make the same mistake he already made with Goff, so maybe.
Yeah, and R.Wilson was smallish. There’s been some good ones. But i think the height thing has also limited Wilson and Purdy. I always thought the Rams took advantage of Wilson’s smallishness.
Wilson and Purdy could both RUN pretty effectively too. I dont think that is a big part of Ty’s game, really.
Probably the only modern smallish QB that really was an outlier was Drew Brees. He was a pocket guy and he had the Hall of Fame career. But, man, its just not what ya want. A smallish QB.
As Dominique Foxworthy (who i have a ton of respect for) said: the pick was a big risk. He didnt argue against the pick. Didnt say it was a ‘bad’ pick. Just that it was a big risk. They coulda had a sure thing, like Lemon, and they rolled the dice that next year’s team would be good enough…
Course you can argue ‘anything’ — you can argue it would be a big risk NOT to take a future-QB when you have the chance, blah blah.
If they lose the Super Bowl because Davante has a bad hamstring, I will, of course, be a gigantic pain in the ass.
…I’m still hoping an OBJ type deal is coming down the road.
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