{"id":838347,"date":"2026-03-28T04:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/838347\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:19:15","slug":"ty-simpson-caleb-banks-among-10-prospects-who-could-shake-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/838347\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Simpson, Caleb Banks among 10 prospects who could shake things up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If NFL quarterback coaches wanted to show young passers video footage of flawless footwork and mechanics at the position, they&#8217;d circulate Simpson&#8217;s early-season work from last fall around the youth football world. The Alabama quarterback looked like a coach&#8217;s dream during this period, as a pinpoint, touch passer with outstanding instincts, awareness and diagnostic skills. Simpson made countless layered throws over second-level defenders, successfully attacking the sweet spots of coverage. While those flashes from his sole season as the Crimson Tide&#8217;s starter are compelling &#8212; as is the QB&#8217;s pedigree, being the son of <a href=\"https:\/\/utmsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/jason-simpson\/1956\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a longtime college football head coach<\/a> &#8212; Simpson&#8217;s lack of experience (15 total college starts) and late-season slump have spawned concern. Factor in the kind of substandard physical dimensions (6-foot-1 1\/8, 211 pounds) that induce durability worries, and this is a draft profile that invites polarization. Indiana QB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/fernando-mendoza\/32004d45-4e51-6487-98a2-f3a9ce2f5835\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Mendoza<\/a> is essentially a lock to go No. 1 overall to the Las Vegas Raiders. But Simpson, widely considered this draft&#8217;s QB2, has a broad draft range. He might be a first-round pick, though it wouldn&#8217;t be shocking to see him fall into the draft&#8217;s second day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If NFL quarterback coaches wanted to show young passers video footage of flawless footwork and mechanics at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[4955,90,19,7,6,15,609,9409],"class_list":["post-838347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl-draft","tag-2026-nfl-draft","tag-analysis","tag-draft","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-draft","tag-no-minute","tag-scouts-notebook"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838347","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=838347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}