Ty Simpson and Garrett Nussmeier: A deep dive on the NFL Draft's 'other two' QB
After Fernando Mendoza, the rest of this year's quarterback draft class is mostly up for debate. Simpson and Nussmeier are two players with similar profiles at the center of that debate.
The NFL Draft always leads to surprises. Those surprises, whether it’s an unexpectedly early selection or a surprise fall, combined with the heavy dosage of hopium that gets pumped out of television and computer screens every time that little bell notification goes off, is what makes what used to be a glorified conference call so enthralling. Every evaluator, whether they’re in a public forum or employed by a professional sports team, is going to come to a different conclusion researching prospects for their sports.
Some consensus will generally form, whether that’s groupthink, an obvious opinion, or some other factor. This 2026 draft class, though, lacks that consensus we generally see in the ensuing weeks after key league gatherings in the spring. That applies to how position stacks rank, who is on top of those stacks, and really just how high to put those stacks up.
And that’s, of course, applicable to this year’s group of quarterbacks. After Fernando Mendoza, whose selection to the Las Vegas Raiders with the No. 1 pick seems like the only sure thing for this year’s draft, there’s a dropoff to the next group of signal callers.
At least to me there is. And I say group , because that’s how I consider Alabama’s Ty Simpson and LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier: two quarterbacks that I have similarly tiered, but that tier is well below Mendoza and other names that have gone early in the past few drafts. Every draft season, I like to profile the top names we might hear in April.
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