{"id":10446,"date":"2026-03-28T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/10446\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:46:08","slug":"ty-simpson-caleb-banks-among-10-prospects-who-could-shake-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/10446\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Simpson, Caleb Banks among 10 prospects who could shake things up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If NFL quarterback coaches wanted to show young passers video footage of flawless footwork and mechanics at the position, they&#8217;d circulate Simpson&#8217;s early-season work from last fall around the youth football world. The Alabama quarterback looked like a coach&#8217;s dream during this period, as a pinpoint, touch passer with outstanding instincts, awareness and diagnostic skills. Simpson made countless layered throws over second-level defenders, successfully attacking the sweet spots of coverage. While those flashes from his sole season as the Crimson Tide&#8217;s starter are compelling &#8212; as is the QB&#8217;s pedigree, being the son of <a href=\"https:\/\/utmsports.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/coaches\/jason-simpson\/1956\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a longtime college football head coach<\/a> &#8212; Simpson&#8217;s lack of experience (15 total college starts) and late-season slump have spawned concern. Factor in the kind of substandard physical dimensions (6-foot-1 1\/8, 211 pounds) that induce durability worries, and this is a draft profile that invites polarization. Indiana QB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/prospects\/fernando-mendoza\/32004d45-4e51-6487-98a2-f3a9ce2f5835\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Mendoza<\/a> is essentially a lock to go No. 1 overall to the Las Vegas Raiders. But Simpson, widely considered this draft&#8217;s QB2, has a broad draft range. He might be a first-round pick, though it wouldn&#8217;t be shocking to see him fall into the draft&#8217;s second day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If NFL quarterback coaches wanted to show young passers video footage of flawless footwork and mechanics at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[313,315,314,8,9,317,3778,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-10446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-analysis","10":"tag-draft","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-no-minute","14":"tag-scouts-notebook","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116304516361880110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}