{"id":744204,"date":"2026-02-11T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/744204\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:02:20","slug":"rams-mock-drafts-ty-simpson-could-replace-matthew-stafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/744204\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams mock drafts: Ty Simpson could replace Matthew Stafford?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">13. Los Angeles Rams (via Atlanta): QB Ty Simpson, Alabama<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Wait for it. If the draft were today, I wouldn\u2019t put Simpson in this spot. But history tells me that he will rise. Simpson\u2019s smart, he stayed for four years at Alabama, and he\u2019s the son of lifelong football coach Jason Simpson, who\u2019s been the <a href=\"https:\/\/utmsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/jason-simpson\/1956?utm_campaign=mock-draft-2-0-a-mendoza-raiders-marriage-the-jets-edge-and-more-round-1-predictions&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=mcshay-report.beehiiv.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">HC at UT Martin<\/a> for the past 20 years. Much has been made of his lack of starting experience, but this guy grew up around ball and knows the game better than most quarterbacks at this career stage. On the field, I love Simpson\u2019s pocket manipulation, anticipation as a passer, toughness, smarts, fast eyes, and competitiveness. He also has a stronger arm and is more mobile than people give him credit for. Plus, his tape through nine games was the best of any QB in the country\u2014and I\u2019ll debate that with anyone. I\u2019ll be honest: I want this for Simpson. Sean McVay is a proven quarterback developer, and Simpson would have time\u2014with at least a season to sit behind Matthew Stafford\u2014to watch and learn. Maybe it will be later in the first round at pick 29. Maybe it won\u2019t happen at all. But I love this fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"13. Los Angeles Rams (via Atlanta): QB Ty Simpson, Alabama Wait for it. If the draft were today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[7,1014,58,2619,16484,2444,2611,6,424],"class_list":["post-744204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-rams","tag-football","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-los-angeles-rams-draft","tag-los-angeles-rams-mock-drafts","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesrams","tag-nfl","tag-rams"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116050483351962909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}