PITTSBURGH — For a brief second Thursday night, you had to wonder what was going through Matthew Stafford’s mind when the Rams used the13th overall pick in the NFL draftto selectAlabama quarterback Ty Simpson.
After all, nothing truly explains your vocational expendability like the day your boss calls you into the office to introduce you to your replacement.
No one is irreplaceable, not evenHall of Fame-caliber quarterbacks. It goes without saying that soon, a Rams staffer will remove Stafford’s name tag from his locker and replace it with someone else’s.
Could be after next season or the one after that. Either way, it’s only a matter of time before the 38-year-oldStafford is no longer the Rams’ starting quarterback.
The likely replacement for him is Simpson.
That’s what the Rams hope, anyway.
It’s why they invested their first-round pick in him Thursday. Given the rare access they had to a quarterback they deem a future game-changer, they seized the moment and took advantage.
From Stafford’s perspective, the conflict must be multilayered.
It’s numbing enough knowing you’ll be working alongside, and potentially even helping groom, your replacement.
But also, at this stage of his career and with only one or two more seasons left to win a Super Bowl, he had to think the Rams would enhance those chances by drafting someone who could help that quest.
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