Jumbo Package: Ty Simpson Shines on Gruden’s QB Class
A coaches kid was excellent on a coaches show. Who would have thought!?
April 11, 2026; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; Alabama linebacker Deontae Lawson (0) shakes hands with Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson (15) and Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer during the Alabama A Day at the University of Alabama. | Gary Cosby Jr. / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images If you missed it yesterday, Ty Simpson was on Jon Gruden’s annual QB Class segment for the top QBs in each draft class.
While Gruden can be a bit annoying at times, this is a really cool watch to get a glimpse into the vocabulary and mechanics of how offenses call plays and how a QB goes through progressions. We got a lot of good clips in this, including Gruden hating on Ryan Grubb’s terminology for plays. Next, Kalen DeBoer has really been doing the rounds in the media over the last week, this time giving a 20-minute appearance with Christian Miller’s podcast and another interview with Ryan Fowler .
“Sometimes you got to be careful not to oversell what’s happening each and every day on our practice fields, but that was more of the same from what we’ve seen from Keelon. … Keelon got a chance to take advantage of a few extra reps, and I thought he did exactly that, and that’s what he should do, and I’m proud of him for it. While DeBoer is obviously doing his best to temper things, you can tell that he’s as much, if not more excited, about Keelon Russell than the rest of us fans.
Unfornately, DeBoer also confirmed something we were fearing after A-Day – Noah Rogers is going to be out for a while. DeBoer confirmed the news during an interview with WTUG-FM, saying, “Unfortunately, he suffered an injury that’s going to take a little while to recover. It will bleed into the season here a little bit.