Last year, Shedeur Sanders was the NFL draft's mystery. This year, it's Alabama QB Ty Simpson.
The Cardinals, Jets and Steelers are the leading teams in a group of seven who could be in play for the Alabama QB.
“[The] quarterbacks are all over the place. ” That was the message from a high-ranking AFC executive Wednesday morning, reacting to Miami’s Carson Beck suddenly seeming to average out as the third-ranked quarterback in this NFL Draft for multiple teams. Of course, he wasn’t talking about just Beck.
It was an overarching statement about draft ambiguity hanging over the entire class, starting right after Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza goes No. 1 overall to the Las Vegas Raiders. Once Mendoza’s name is called, you might as well affix the name of the next most highly ranked QB — Alabama’s Ty Simpson — to a dartboard.
Then just start throwing. Because like Shedeur Sanders one year ago, nobody is really that certain about where he’s going to end up, or when his name is going to come off the draft board. As I wrote Tuesday, 10 talent evaluators from different NFL teams all pegged Simpson as the No.
2 quarterback in this draft. Of those 10, six put his draft spot as likely materializing in the late first round. Four put him in the early second.
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