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>\nThe NFL Stock Exchange podcast from Trevor Sikkema and Connor Rogers also pointed out that the pairing of the Rams and Simpson make sense. You watch see the full mock here:<\/p>\n
It shouldn\u2019t be surprising that draft analysts are matching the Rams and Simpson. Even when LA acquired the additional first round pick last year it seemed like the intent was to accumulate draft capital to one day move up for the heir to Matthew Stafford. Did Les Snead expect the Falcons\u2019 pick to land at #13 overall? Probably not, but it was more likely than Atlanta probably wanted to believe.<\/p>\n
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Now the Rams\u2019 future quarterback may fall into their lap without requiring a trade up. It\u2019s a worthwhile gamble if the team does believe that Simpson has a worthwhile NFL future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s mock draft season! We are roughly two months out from the event of the offseason. Anticipation will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[930,254,1443,332,7,4725,71566,1014,58,2444,2611,32,6,684,187,424,31456,20708],"class_list":["post-744725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-rams","tag-alabama-crimson-tide","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-california","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-football","tag-indiana-hoosiers","tag-jason-simpson","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesrams","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-nfl","tag-pasadena","tag-pick","tag-rams","tag-rose-bowl-stadium","tag-ty-simpson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116052024825178624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744725","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=744725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}