The 23-year-old redshirt junior was a one-year starter at Bama, continuing in a long line of NFL-caliber quarterbacks at the school. He led the Crimson Tide to the SEC Championship Game and the College Football Playoff, including a win over Oklahoma. However, the Tide was blown out by Indiana in the quarterfinal, and Simpson exited the game in the third quarter with a rib injury.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Simpson completed 305 of 473 passes (64.5%) for 3,567 yards, 28 TDs and five interceptions, also rushing for two TDs in 15 games. Originally committing to Nick Saban at Bama, Simpson served as a reserve behind Bryce Young<\/a> in 2022 and the backup to Seahawks 2025 third-round pick Jalen Milroe<\/a> in 2023 and 2024, appearing in 16 games in those three seasons combined, completing 29 of 50 passes for 381 yards and rushing for three scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23-year-old redshirt junior was a one-year starter at Bama, continuing in a long line of NFL-caliber quarterbacks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[68019,4687,399,398,396,397,6257,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-393545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-2026-nfl-draft","9":"tag-analysis","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-ncaafootball","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}