The smartest thing Sean McVay said about drafting Ty Simpson

“Every single year is a new year. You’ve got to come together as a team. I’ve been a part of teams where we go to the Super Bowl and next year we win 5 games. Or the next year we win 9 games. So let’s not kid ourselves that you just place yourself back into the NFC Championship. You earn everything.“ The Rams won the Super Bowl in 2021 and then despite attempting to address needs by signing Bobby Wagner and Allen Robinson in free agency, L.A. totally fell apart in 2022 and finished 5-12. **The 2026 Rams are not immune to injuries either.** Ironically, L.A.’s 2022 draft was kind of excellent with late picks like Kyren Williams and Quentin Lake. But they weren’t of much help in 2022. Go back to 2018 and the Rams reach the Super Bowl with Jared Goff in McVay’s second season. Cut to 2019 and the Rams go 9-7 and miss the playoffs. For what it’s worth, the Rams did not have a first round pick in 2019 or 2022. They were busy swinging trades, including the lack of a first round pick in 2022 *because* they used it on a quarterback (Stafford). If McVay thought that it was okay to draft Ty Simpson because the Rams are already guaranteed a trip to the playoffs, that would have shown cracks in the L.A. franchise and that they have not learned lessons from their past offseason mistakes. The fact that McVay is leading with the point that ***the Rams*** could be a bust next season shows that the head coach knows that next season’s success is not guaranteed. Which is why the Rams drafted Ty Simpson. Not because they’re already set, but because he thinks what they do in the draft this year kind of doesn’t matter for next season.