Ty Simpson says playing for one NFL team, coach would be ‘dream come true’
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With the NFL Combine getting underway this past week, a hot topic of conversation has revolved around who will be the second quarterback selected behind Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza.
Alabama‘s Ty Simpson is a prime candidate, and while meeting with the media, he delved into which destinations would suit him best.
According to reporting from cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot, Simpson would be thrilled to join Todd Monken and the Browns given the connection his father has with the newly hired head coach.
“He’d be very excited,” Simpson told cleveland.com at the NFL Combine on Friday. “My dad and coach Monken go way back. They talk often. He texted him when he got the job and they’ve texted a little bit (since), so if I had the opportunity to play for the Browns, it would be a dream come true.”
Simpson then talked about the offensive schemes that Monken employs and why he believes his development could take off in Cleveland.
“I think I’d 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’s going to coach me hard if I’m able to go there and I know he’s going to do it the right way,” Simpson said. “So I’m super-excited.”
Monken was asked about his opinions on Simpson earlier in the week, and the head coach elaborated on his history with attempting to recruit Ty and his past relations with the Simpsons.
“I like Ty,” Monken said Wednesday at the NFL Combine. “I liked Ty when he was coming out. When I first got to Georgia, they hadn’t offered him and I went up there and talked to his dad. In fact, his dad, Jason, is a Southern Miss alum and I was the head coach at Southern Miss. So we got to know them really well. Really fond of Ty, obviously really good football player. Fired up for him because in today’s day and age, for him to stay as long as he did at Alabama and then get a chance to be the starting quarterback’s pretty cool.”
Parker is currently the sports editor for the Enterprise-Journal in McComb, Mississippi. He's a graduate from Mizzou who has experience covering the Tiger football and basketball beats for SB Nation, and he's worked for a variety of sports news outlets in the past.
