As if this year's quarterback class wasn't enough of a jumbled mess , another first-year starter has been making waves in the scouting community through the first six weeks of the season. So much so that the Shrine Bowl scouting staff already has Alabama's Ty Simpson with a comparable grade to more established starters like Garrett Nussmeier and Fernando Mendoza (although Shrine Bowl grades are used more for bucketing players into potential roles and are less granular than NFL team grades).

From a numbers standpoint, it's not hard to see why. His 9.4 yards per attempt ranks 10th in the country, while his 13 touchdown passes rank eighth. Those numbers also came against the third-hardest schedule in college football , according to ESPN -- even with Simpson and the rest of the

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