Orlovsky wants fans to believe that if Simpson had more reasons to be a great prospect, he\u2019d be a great prospect, but actually in spite of that he\u2019s a great prospect:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Ty Simpson was 6\u20194, or Ty Simpson had 20-plus or 23 college starts, he would be in play at number two for the New York Jets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orlovsky, who again is at the same agency as Simpson<\/a>, hard-sells that Simpson is \u201cvery much\u201d like Brock Purdy, the last pick of his draft class.<\/p>\n Of course, you may not need any sort of business connection to oversell Simpson from a day 3 prospect to a top-10 prospect. Chase Daniel has no apparent connection to Sexton or CAA but still puts out propaganda that implies Simpson is a first round talent being underrated by the people who are being reasonable:<\/p>\n On his YouTube channel, which I think is generally good, Daniel sought out combine footage to make an argument for Simpson as a first round quarterback. Why do this without a hidden agenda?<\/p>\n Well for the least hidden agenda of all: Clicks.<\/p>\n Saying that a quarterback class sucks or that a fourth round quarterback is simply a fourth round quarterback will not get you any attention. It\u2019s merely what a reasonable person would expect to hear PLUS it\u2019s just not very interesting to the average\/mainstream NFL Draft fan who simply doesn\u2019t know anything about the prospects.<\/p>\n We only want to hear about the first round quarterbacks. We do NOT want to hear about any other quarterbacks, right?<\/p>\n Well, how do you make content that people will watch if you don\u2019t think that there\u2019s a single QB prospect worthy of the first round? Or at most you think Mendoza is a good-enough prospect, a Heisman-winner, a national champion, and predestined to go number one regardless of your own analysis. What do you do then?<\/p>\n You PRETEND that there are first round QB prospects!<\/p>\n In 2022, we had all kinds of ESPN\/media propaganda claiming that Malik Willis was a top-3 pick, Desmond Ridder was a first round pick, Matt Corral was a first round pick, and Kenny Pickett was a first round pick.<\/p>\n The week of the draft, NFL.com\u2019s Chad Reuter mocked<\/a> Pickett at 2, Willis at 8, Corral at 12, and Ridder at 16!<\/p>\n Does anyone care that it was outlandishly wrong? Apparently not. It\u2019s just forgotten which is why these draft analysts are so comfortable and confident that all they really need to do is chase immediate clicks, not worry about trying to predict the long-term consequences of being HORRENDOUSLY wrong.<\/p>\n What really happened? Pickett went 20th to the Steelers, as was widely expected regardless of his day 2 resume, and no other quarterback was taken in the first OR second round. Willis and Ridder went late in the third round, and Corral was out of the NFL in a couple short years.<\/p>\n Nobody seems to care how wrong the media was then, or the thousands of hours that ESPN spent trying to convince us that Willis was a top-10 prospect despite his weak resume at Liberty. Similar to Simpson, much of Willis\u2019s resume was built on analysts saying \u201clook at the highlights, look at the cherry picked stats, and look at the combine.\u201d<\/p>\n This is only supposed to fool fans but amazingly it seems even general managers and owners were fooled by pre-draft hype in 2024.<\/p>\n That entire draft season, Michael Penix, J.J. McCarthy, and Bo Nix were widely viewed as second\/third round prospects. There wasn\u2019t even much of a movement to push a narrative because ESPN could be distracted by Caleb, Daniels, and Maye. Even so, when it came to draft night Penix went 8th, McCarthy went 10th, and Nix went 12th.<\/p>\n Just two years later, both Penix (Tua Tagovailoa) and McCarthy (Kyler Murray) are staring down the end of their careers with the franchises that drafted them because of the addition of veterans who are good enough to take the starting role next season. Minnesota went a step further by re-signing Carson Wentz on Thursday and seemingly giving up on McCarthy even faster than the New York Jets gave up on Zach Wilson.<\/p>\n Now cut to 2025 and what did we see?<\/p>\n An NFL so scorned by bad-intentioned media that Shedeur Sanders fell from \u201cconsensus top-10 pick\u201d in mocks to the fifth round in real life. And the media STILL can\u2019t accept that Sanders is just not good.<\/p>\n
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