Does anyone actually think a healthy, experienced Ty Simpson wouldn’t have won the Heisman

if he played for Indiana this year instead of Mendoza, with their running game and their pass catchers who make catches like the Penn St game rather than the number of drops we had?

If Ty was a 3 yr starter like Mendoza and on that team instead, the likelihood that he would have the same or better numbers would be very, very high. Even with all the drops, no running game, poor pass blocking, playing through injury, and facing some of the toughest defenses of anyone all year…he still had 28 TDs to only 5 INTs and over 3,500 yds passing. We saw what he did to Wisconsin, so imagine playing 6-7 Wisconsins instead of LSU, OK, AU, UGA, etc.

8 teams have made the Semifinals the past 2 years and exactly ZERO of them were with first year starters at QB. I’ll repeat for emphasis, not one single team with a first year starter at QB has made the CFP semis the past 2 years. Ty may actually be one of the only 1st year starters to actually win a CFP game in the last 2 years.

Ty is a borderline 1st round draft pick after being a 1st year starter, with multiple “experts” praising his footwork and ability to read defenses. The only QBs ahead of him on draft boards are multi-year starters.

People saying they want to go with another 1st year starter instead of Ty don’t understand what they’re asking for. A healthy Ty with a full year of experience is absolutely the best QB option we could hope for next year, and it’s not close. He’ll get 3-4 mm from someone else and probably be in the semis if he goes to the right place if we let him walk. It will then be a rebuilding year for us (which people don’t understand that this year was actually somewhat a rebuilding year given Ty was a 1st time starter). Having multiple rebuilding years in a row sucks, but for some reason a bunch of Bama fans want that. Makes zero sense. Give me Ty next year and Keelon for 2 yrs after that. Appreciate Mack’s service but likely best for him to transfer if Ty comes back.

The absolute worst case scenario is Mack next year followed by Keelon the year after (assuming Mack transfers out like Ty after his first year starting). That’s 3 straight years of 1st time starters and 2 that would be developing here and going somewhere else for their best years. No thanks on Bama becoming a farm team for developing other teams’ QBs, but that’s just me.

Interesting read from Jets site: LINK


Apologies for the wall of text, but people just don’t understand what they’re asking for.