{"id":871977,"date":"2026-04-22T15:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871977\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:22:25","slug":"rams-draft-ty-simpson-early-in-mcshays-final-mock-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/871977\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams draft Ty Simpson early in McShay\u2019s final mock 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rams have been linked to quarterbacks in the draft over the past few years but the timing has never been right for Sean McVay\u2019s team and that appears to be the case again in 2026 with Fernando Mendoza as the only projected top-10 pick. But the Ringer\u2019s Todd McShay went there, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/todd-mcshay\/mock-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mocking Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson to the L.A. Rams at pick 13<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m not saying it\u2019s going to happen, but I think Ty Simpson goes earlier than expected on Thursday and I know that the Rams think extremely highly of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Regardless, I think Les Snead is up to something bigger than sitting at 13 and taking a WR\u2014I\u2019m expecting some kind of fireworks.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This pick would stun the NFL and the draft community, but a few scant analysts have been trying to push the Ty Simpson narrative for weeks and it appears that McShay is joining that herd of believers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Could the Rams really be \u201cextremely high\u201d on a college quarterback with 15 career starts and very mediocre results in the second half of 2025?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rams do not necessarily need a successor to Matthew Stafford this soon either. Les Snead is vocal about the fact that L.A. is working on an extension for Stafford and that it will get done soon, which lines up with expectations and recent history. Even if Stafford\u2019s extension is just to bring down his cap number again, there\u2019s no reason to think he couldn\u2019t play 2-3 more years, at least.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Simpson has only played 15 games in the last four years. Imagine if he has zero starts in the next three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Even so, Todd McShay went there and mocked Simpson to the Rams at 13 anyway, the highest the quarterback has gone in any major mock draft. Does he know something we don\u2019t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams have been linked to quarterbacks in the draft over the past few years but the timing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871978,"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":{"0":"post-871977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-los-angeles","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams-draft","12":"tag-los-angeles-rams-mock-drafts","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangelesrams","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-rams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116449046526349676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871977","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=871977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}