{"id":858604,"date":"2026-04-07T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:30:32","slug":"ty-simpson-started-one-year-but-believes-being-at-alabama-prepared-him-for-the-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858604\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Simpson started one year, but believes being at Alabama prepared him for the NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;First off, I feel like I&#8217;m ready. I&#8217;m a franchise quarterback,&#8221; Simpson said at the scouting combine. &#8220;Alabama prepares you most for the NFL, and with the infrastructure that they had. I run an NFL-type system, and it&#8217;s definitely prepared me for saying those long play calls, saying those checks, making sure that I get us in the right protection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simpson didn&#8217;t start until his final season at Alabama, but believes the experiences he stacked up there prepared him. In his freshman year, 2022, he got to develop behind a certain Mr. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/team\/players-roster\/bryce-young\/\" title=\"Bryce Young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Young<\/a>, who went on to become the No. 1 overall pick of the Panthers. But over the next two seasons, he was behind Jalen Milroe and got to work against a parade of defensive stars every day when he was running the scout team in practice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going on scout team, I got Will Anderson, Dallas Turner, Henry To&#8217;oTo&#8217;o,&#8221; Simpson said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got Kool-Aid (McKinstry) on one side, I&#8217;ve got Terrion (Arnold) on the other side. There are a number of first- and second-round draft picks that I went against and who I was in the locker room with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So like I said, the Alabama locker room was as close as a locker room in the NFL as you can get.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;First off, I feel like I&#8217;m ready. I&#8217;m a franchise quarterback,&#8221; Simpson said at the scouting combine. &#8220;Alabama&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2075],"tags":[79,235,260,2567,7,81,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-858604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-app-news","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-carolina-panthers","11":"tag-carolinapanthers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116362728273041632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858604","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=858604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}