Austin Gayle

really like Simpson as a prospect, know that he probably needs to be a backup right away.

Whereas Arizona, they're going to have a quarterback competition the whole way through.

That is where it starts to make more sense for me, where it's like a team like the Rams or whoever already has this capable starter that they feel like they're moving on from.

Maybe it's the Steelers, right?

To go up and get him and then kind of wait on him and develop him over time.

With Jackson Dart, I think it was like McShay, I remember Todd McShay here at the ringer, was one of the first people to kind of like, I think he could go in the first round, right?

Whereas, and that was kind of the conversation about him as a prospect, then he ends up going in the first round.

Whereas Simpson, the first nine weeks of the season, same guy, Todd McShay, is like, this is the best player in the draft.

This is, he's going to go number one overall.

And then the injuries happen and things fall off and things change.

So like, I think that the key difference there is like, if you're going to go up and kind of take the flyer on this guy, it's not even that you're like, it's just, if you flipped Simpson season, say he started the year, really hurt, didn't look great, really concerned.

And then the second half of the season, he looks like just a completely different, they go on a run in the college football playoff.

People are really excited.

His best football is played when everyone's watching.

I think you're talking probably about Simpson as a top 10 pick.

It's like a lot of this is like recency bias.

What is the last thing that you've seen?

And like, I think if he was ending the season on a high, people start to feel like you're starting to, like, Mitch Trubisky didn't have a ton of starts.

Anthony Richardson didn't have a ton of starts, but they finished kind of hot and people were excited.

And I think with Simpson, because it's that flip-flop, it's just easier for people to kind of say, ah, well, the last thing, I got the ick watching him the last...