Rams Linebacker Byron Young opines on his team’s drafting Ty Simpson

After pulling off a blockbuster commerce for Myles Garrett, the NFL’s new report holder for single season sacks, the Los Angeles Rams are actually the consensus palms down favorites to win the subsequent Tremendous Bowl.

L.A. now boasts the reigning NFL Defensive Participant of the 12 months in Garrett and the Most Beneficial Participant in quarterback Matthew Stafford. The league chief in TD passes (46) and passing yards (4,707) introduced his return for an 18th season whereas claiming the MVP award through the NFL Honors program.

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In fact, it is at all times good to plan forward when you may, and the Rams did precisely that after they used their first spherical draft choose (thirteenth general) on Alabama QB Ty Simpson. In spite of everything, if you happen to’re solely standing nonetheless, it means you are really falling behind.

Or in order that saying goes.

Simpson was extensively thought of to be the #2 QB on this draft class behind solely Heisman trophy winner, nationwide champion and #1 general choose Fernando Mendoza. Simpson has the proper tutor and mentor in Stafford, and he’ll thus be set to take the reins in 2027, 2028 or every time that could be.

Rams linebacker Byron Younger, who led the group in sacks, en route to creating his first Professional Bowl in 2025, opined on the his group’s determination to pick out Simpson, as an alternative of going for a place the place there’s extra of an instantaneous want.

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“I feel he’s a superb quarterback, he’s a fantastic child,” Younger stated, relating to Simpson, in an unique with Scores.org. “With the entrance workplace, trusting all the things that they do is in the perfect curiosity of this group. I’m wanting ahead to seeing the place this goes.

“We acquired some nice gamers, acquired some D-linemen, acquired some tight ends. Received some receivers in there. I can’t wait to see what these guys carry to this. I’ve little question that these guys will are available in, positively assist encourage you no matter what choose they’re.”

Barring an harm to Stafford, Simpson might be introduced alongside at a tempo that’s extra comfy to each him and the group. That is definitely a luxurious for the Rams, and only a few NFL groups get to take pleasure in a luxurious resembling this.

Younger, who set a profession excessive in tackles (82) this previous season, is aware of that the division rival and reigning Tremendous Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks are going to be the most important impediment of their approach in 2026. The Rams got here up simply brief in opposition to them within the NFC title recreation, 31-27, in January.

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He mentioned what should be completed to be able to recover from the hump this time round.

“Now we have to complete,” Younger stated in the identical interview, relating to how they’ll beat the Seahawks within the subsequent assembly. “That’s a whole group. That’s a group the place you may’t give them an opportunity, you gained’t give them a lot sort of likelihood, as a result of that’s the way you lose.

“You possibly can’t make errors like that, the small errors we made, as a result of that’s the way you lose.”

This text initially appeared on Draft Wire: Rams star defender explains why his entrance workplace went QB in spherical 1