Is there anything wrong with how Les Snead ‘recruited’ Ty Simpson to the Rams?

Since NIL and the transfer portal changed the landscape of college football in 2020, people have been saying the NCAA is now more like the pros. But the way that Rams general manager Les Snead basically recruited quarterback Ty Simpson to L. A.

by telling him to enter the draft so that he could take him with the 13th pick makes the NFL feel like it’s college football. In the hours since the Rams shocked so many people by drafting Simpson at 13, there’s been a lot of speculation about Sean McVay’s behavior in the post-draft press conference differed from Snead’s, but also stories about how L. A.

‘s general manager has been lining up this pick since before Alabama’s season ended. NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero shared that Les Snead essentially told Simpson’s father to his face in January that the quarterback was penciled in with the number 13 pick: “Back in December, Ty Simpson is still playing. He has not hired an agent.

His dad, the head coach at UT-Martin, was calling people in the NFL and seeking input on whether Simpsons should enter the draft or transfer. One of the people who told him that his floor was the first round was Les Snead. Fast forward to the coming weeks, as Alabama is going to the Rose Bowl, and Miami is offering $5 million to come there in 2026.