Rams Risk Repeating History: Why Picking Ty Simpson Could Mirror the J.J. McCarthy Blunder

Now cut to 2025 and what did we see?

An NFL so scorned by bad-intentioned media that Shedeur Sanders fell from “consensus top-10 pick” in mocks to the fifth round in real life. And the media STILL can’t accept that Sanders is just not good.

Will the fans or the owners fall for it this time with Ty Simpson?

It’s impossible to tell, but they shouldn’t.

Where is Simpson ranked really?

Despite a push by Orlovsky and some others to fabricate a strong resume for Ty Simpson, not everyone is on board with the premise. At NFL Mock Draft Database, Simpson isn’t a first round prospect on the consensus big board.

As you can see by the low placement of Garrett Nussmeier, Carson Beck, and Drew Allar, not to mention Taylen Green or Cole Payton who both rank outside the top-130, Simpson’s best argument now is that he’s the middle ground between the one good prospect (and Mendoza is still vastly overrated) and the third-best prospect, whether that’s Nussmeier or Allar or Green or Payton, etc. Nobody really knows yet. The class is that bad.