{"id":499270,"date":"2026-03-02T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499270\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:28:12","slug":"ty-simpson-would-love-to-play-for-family-friend-todd-monken-in-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499270\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Simpson would love to play for family friend Todd Monken in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson has known Browns head coach Todd Monken for years, and Simpson says he\u2019d love to go to Cleveland and play for Monken in the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad and coach Monken go way back,\u201d Simpson told cleveland.com. \u201cThey talk often. He texted him when he got the job and they\u2019ve texted a little bit [since], so if I had the opportunity to play for the Browns, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/browns\/2026\/02\/why-it-would-be-a-dream-come-true-for-alabama-qb-ty-simpson-to-play-for-the-browns-mary-kay-cabot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">it would be a dream come true<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simpson believes Monken and his staff will make Cleveland a good place for a quarterback to develop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019d be in great hands with the team that they have and the organization, and then coach Monken, what he does with the quarterbacks and the offense is super quarterback-friendly and I think he\u2019s going to coach me hard if I\u2019m able to go there and I know he\u2019s going to do it the right way,\u201d Simpson said. \u201cSo I\u2019m super-excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Browns drafted two quarterbacks last year in Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel, and they still have Deshaun Watson under contract for one more season. It\u2019s not clear whether they\u2019ll add another quarterback in the draft, but if they do, Simpson hopes to be that quarterback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson has known Browns head coach Todd Monken for years, and Simpson says he\u2019d love&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-499270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499270","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=499270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}