LOS ANGELES \u2014 The final of this year\u2019s first-round NFL Draft picks is under contract.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Rams quarterback Ty Simpson signed his rookie deal on the day players reported to training camp Saturday, a team source confirmed to The Athletic. The deal is for four years and $25.4 million, fully guaranteed. It includes a fifth-year option as well as a $14.9 million signing bonus as determined by his No. 13 draft slot.<\/p>\n
The Rams selected Simpson out of Alabama this spring with the highest draft pick they\u2019ve owned in a decade. In doing so, they locked in an heir to Matthew Stafford, who is entering his 18th NFL season after winning his first league MVP award.<\/p>\n
Brock Purdy effect led to Los Angeles Rams drafting Ty Simpson?<\/p>\n
Robert Mays<\/p>\n
Rams coach Sean McVay and general manager Les Snead have made it clear that Stafford will control how much longer he has to play. Stafford began this offseason with one year left on his contract but added a second season for $55 million to keep him through the 2027 season, if he chooses to keep playing then.<\/p>\n
The plan for Simpson is to sit and learn behind Stafford for as long as the reigning MVP continues to play. The Rams feel as if he could use that learning after starting just one season at Alabama, when he led the Crimson Tide to the second round of the College Football Playoff and finished with 28 touchdown passes and five interceptions.<\/p>\n
Simpson was a surprising pick to some at the time, given the Rams\u2019 stated goals to win a Super Bowl after a narrow loss in the NFC Championship Game. But that selection freed up their 2027 draft picks in trades, and they then traded that 2027 first-round pick along with Pro Bowl edge rusher Jared Verse, a 2028 second-round pick and a 2029 third-round pick to the Cleveland Browns for reigning Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett.<\/p>\n
Simpson will see some reps this summer as Stafford manages a degenerative back issue. The Rams have broken training camp into four-day blocks where Stafford will practice on the second and third days while resting on the first and fourth days. Stafford will not participate in the team\u2019s first practice on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Simpson will use this training camp, as well as three preseason games, to try to beat out Stetson Bennett for the No. 2 quarterback role. Jimmy Garoppolo had held that spot for the past two seasons but is a free agent considering retirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe quarterback position is obviously an incredibly important position with the way that this game is played, and you\u2019ll see that reflected,\u201d McVay said. \u201cAs Matthew gets a chance to take some of those days off, I think that\u2019s when you\u2019ll really see (the other quarterbacks) get more reps than they would otherwise. We want to create as many competitive situations so we\u2019re good-on-good basically every period.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 The final of this year\u2019s first-round NFL Draft picks is under contract. Los Angeles Rams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,6446,752],"class_list":["post-412237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}