NFL comparisons for each Rams rookie

Every NFL draft season brings excitement, optimism, and one tradition that football fans cannot resist — rookie comparisons. From Hall of Fame projections to stylistic similarities, analysts and fans spend months searching for the perfect NFL counterpart for incoming prospects. The Los Angeles Rams grabbed five prospects in the 2026 draft and fans are dying to see them in action at some point in time to know if Les Snead and Sean McVay made the right call. In the mean time, here is how I viewed each prospect based on their collegiate film.

Ty Simpson (Comp: Kirk Cousins)

A more athletic Kirk Cousins. Maybe people are using this as a way to bring the ties of Sean McVay and Kirk Cousins together or maybe its fair. Kirk Cousins and Ty Simpson share similar arm strength (nothing spectacular). But both quarterbacks seem very similar in their diagnostic ability. Sean McVay hand a significant hand in turning Kirk Cousins, a fourth rounder, into a successful 14+ year NFL quarterback. Just like Cousins, it appears that Simpson’s strength moving forward is going to be his decisiveness and ability to attack the intermediate levels of defenses. What will be fascinating to watch is Simpson’s ability to create if throwing lanes are not there. Les Snead always wanted to have a quarterback that could use his legs and further stretch a defense.

Max Klare (Comp: Mark Andrews)

Max Klare is an interesting prospect. When he started his college career at Purdue he was a more athletic playmaker. When he transferred to Ohio State, he was asked to do a little more in the trenches. Andrews put together more production in his time at Oklahoma than Klare at Purdue/Ohio State.

But both players share a similar knack for route adjustments as they both have an extensive route tree in their tool bag. Klare and Andrews offer yards after the catch when playing in the right system.

Out of Oklahoma, Andrews was also underwhelming as a blocker until joining the .