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The info is from various NFL GMs (perhaps other exec's) viewpoints.
Bottom line: any WR or TE player the Rams might have selected at 13 would have had minimal to some impact on this year's team. But not very much.
Some felt that Simpson was about equal with Mendoza. They felt that Brock Purdy was more or less Simpson's floor, and that McVay could take the Rams a long way with that.
The Rams did something by taking Simpson that none of these execs expected, and the way they were able to keep their plan to take Simpson secret for so long was quite amazing.
If Simpson pans out, "it was a genious move".
ME: GMs and upper Execs look at things differently from HC's, players, and fans. It's their jobs to have to take more into account than simply winning today. And there is little else more important to a team's future than a good QB. The Rams did it about as cheaply and timely and under the best possible conditions for taking a stab at their future QB as they can, considering they got the pick in trade, only had to use ONE pick, have the QB in their control and at a low price, for 5 years. Their draft capital for 2027 is intact. And it may be many years before they have a pick as high as 13 again.
Even more, there's not a lot of disagreement that Simpson is exactly McVay's kind of QB that exactly fit's McVay's/Rams system/requirements.
While it's impossible to know the future, the more that comes out about Simpson, and those who think he's a very good prospect, I'm optimistic. I don't care if a team gets the 1st player in the 1st round as their QB. Their futures are still all speculation.
What is it about Simpson that I keep reading/hearing that he is McVay's kind of QB? McVay always had statues at QB. Simpson is much more differentt. He's a more mobile QB with no experience unlike Stafford and Goff.
