{"id":411301,"date":"2026-01-14T02:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411301\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:07:20","slug":"report-alabama-qb-ty-simpson-officially-declares-for-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411301\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Alabama QB Ty Simpson officially declares for the NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ty Simpson said he was entering the NFL Draft on Jan. 7, but then, the Alabama quarterback <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/ty-simpson-gets-big-nil-offers-despite-intent-to-enter-draft#:~:text=Via%20Nick%20Kelly%20of%20Al,school%20as%20offered%20%246.5%20million.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">received NIL offers<\/a> from multiple teams. The University of Miami reportedly offered him $6.5 million to stay in college another season.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson, though, officially is headed to the pros.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Gay of The Tuscaloosa News reports Tuesday that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/alabama-qb-ty-simpson-submits-181404209.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Simpson has submitted paperwork<\/a> to the NFL, making him eligible for the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n<p>Gay reports that Simpson\u2019s base salary at Alabama was $400,000 and doubled to $800,000 with incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Simpson is expected to participate in the 2026 Senior Bowl in Mobile, per Gay.<\/p>\n<p>He completed 305 of 473 passes for 3,567 yards with 30 total touchdowns and five interceptions in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ty Simpson said he was entering the NFL Draft on Jan. 7, but then, the Alabama quarterback received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-411301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}