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Derek Brown · Apr 8, 2026

Brown says Ty Simpson is the clear bust of this quarterback/prospect group while defending Fernando Mendoza as a clean evaluation, and he treats Carnell Tate as a long-established top-ten talent who could even go inside the top five.

I think if we're talking about bus players, get you know, Ty Simpson all day, I think that's that's the clear bust to me.

said on air or in an interview · The Herd with Colin Cowherd (podcast) · read the original →

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  • because I'm like, dude, he's always been a top ten pick of we talking about top ten or now top five. I mean, you can make a case for the Giants, you can make a case for the Tennessee Titans to take him at four or five.

    Scored 100a naive guess scored 50
    How this was scored
    draft:
    2026
    naive:
    a shuffled mock scores 50
    player:
    Carnell Tate
    season:
    2026
    zero at:
    32
    accuracy:
    100
    baseline:
    50
    actual pick:
    4
    difficulty:
    1
    weeks in the season:
    18
    pick accuracy:
    100
    predicted pick:
    top ten pick (picks 1–10)
    weeks left when called:
    0
    mock ordering score:
    only one pick — no order to score

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  • I think if we're talking about bus players, get you know, Ty Simpson all day, I think that's that's the clear bust to me.

    Not settled yet. This is graded once the season it describes has finished.

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