Ty Simpson

#15 · QB · Jr. · Alabama6′2″ · 208 lb · Martin, TN · Westview

Ty Simpson: QB · Alabama · #15.

Ty Simpson

QB · Alabama · Jr · #15

Picks you apart underneath and protects the ball. Played for two head coaches in four seasons at Alabama. The first one came in 2025: All-SEC. A game that shows it: 382 passing yards and 25 rushing yards against Wisconsin — Week 3, 2025.

Fans

No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.

Alabama in the news

Alabama dismisses Dre Kirkpatrick Jr.Yahoo Sports Oct 28
LSU's Kiffin calls out SECHeavy Oct 28
Alabama DB suspended for gameSaturday Down South Oct 24
Coleman-Williams out vs TennesseeThe Tuscaloosa News Oct 15

Where to follow

Career stats

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Season	Team
2025	Alabama	305	473	64.5%	3,567	7.5	28	5	145.2	71
2024	Alabama	14	25	56.0%	167	6.7	0	0	112.1	--
2023	Alabama	11	20	55.0%	179	8.9	0	0	130.2	--
2022	Alabama	4	5	80.0%	35	7.0	0	0	138.8	--
Career		334	523	63.9%	3,948	7.5	28	5	143.0	71

Season	Team
2025	Alabama	90	93	1.0	2	26
2024	Alabama	8	44	5.5	1	17
2023	Alabama	14	86	6.1	2	78
2022	Alabama	--	--	--	--	--
Career		112	223	2.0	5	78

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 15 games

Box score · CFBD

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Wk	Opp	CMP/ATT	YDS	TD	INT	YPA	QBR	Note
Wk 1	L 17-31@ Florida State	23/43	254	2	0	5.9	48.6	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 2	W 73-0vs UL Monroe	17/17	226	3	0	13.3	99.3	3 TD passes
Wk 3	W 38-14vs Wisconsin	24/29	382	4	0	13.2	89.7	Season-high 382 yds
Wk 5	W 24-21@ No. 5 Georgia	24/38	276	2	0	7.3	90.1	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 6	W 30-14vs No. 16 Vanderbilt	23/31	340	2	1	11.0	80.1
Wk 7	W 27-24@ No. 14 Missouri	23/31	200	3	0	6.5	77.6	3 TD passes
Wk 8	W 37-20vs No. 11 Tennessee	19/29	253	2	0	8.7	89.0	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 9	W 29-22@ South Carolina	24/43	253	2	0	5.9	77.9	Clean 2-TD game
Wk 11	W 20-9vs LSU	21/35	277	1	0	7.9	79.6
Wk 12	L 21-23vs No. 11 Oklahoma	28/42	326	1	1	7.8	64.4
Wk 13	W 56-0vs Eastern Illinois	11/16	147	0	2	9.2	47.1
Wk 14	W 27-20@ Auburn	19/35	122	3	0	3.5	76.3	3 TD passes
Wk 15	L 7-28vs No. 3 Georgia	19/39	212	1	1	5.4	19.9
Bowl	W 34-24@ No. 8 Oklahoma	18/29	232	2	0	8.0	80.8
Bowl	L 3-38vs No. 1 Indiana	12/16	67	0	0	4.2	60.6
Total		305/473	3567	28	5	7.5	—

Highs and lows

Only games with 20 or more plays count for best and lowest.
Best by our grade	Wisconsin	W 38-14 · Graded great · 382 yds, 4 TD, 0 INT · Rush 6 for 25 · Sacked 1
Lowest by our grade	at Auburn	W 27-20 · Graded rough · 122 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT · Rush 10 for 31 · Sacked 3
Biggest game	Indiana	No. 1 at kickoff · L 3-38 · Graded solid · 67 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT · Rush 3 for 17 · Sacked 0
Best play	at South Carolina	Completion, touchdown, Q4 2:16 · Win chance 27% to 58%
Costliest play	Oklahoma	Interception, returned for a touchdown, Q1 2:03 · Win chance 81% to 38%

Passing profile

Pass Profile · True throw depth (charted plays)

Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from

305/473 (64.5%) · 28 TD · 5 INT

463 of 473 attempts matched to play-by-play

163 of 463 attempts charted for true throw depth

Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 463 passing plays (296 completions) against the box score's 473 attempts (305 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.

Adjusted ANY/A

7.4449 of 206 QBs

Sack rate

5.2%117 of 206 QBs

Sacked on 5.2% of dropbacks (117 of 206) — and still 49 of 206 in Adjusted ANY/A.

Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.

Behind LOS · Negative air yds

20% of attempts (33)

76%comp

Air -3.0 · YAC 9.0 avg

Short · 0–9 air yds

42% of attempts (68)

66%comp

Air 3.9 · YAC 5.0 avg

Middle · 10–19 air yds

24% of attempts (39)

49%comp3 INT

Air 14.3 · YAC 3.5 avg

Deep · 20+ air yds

14% of attempts (23)

22%comp1 INT

Air 28.4 · YAC 5.2 avg

Overall 64.5% completion on 473 attempts · 22% completion on 23 deep attempts (20+ air yds).

Situational

Is he a different quarterback when it matters

Each situation vs his own 2025 baseline

No situation moves him more than 31 percentile points from his baseline.

BaselineThis situation

Down 1

-31 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 13/174 (7.5%) · league sack rate 4.2%

Down 2

+11 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 2/154 (1.3%) · league sack rate 4.5%

Down 3+

+27 pct pts vs baseline · sacks 9/135 (6.7%) · league sack rate 7.8%

Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.

Teams and coaches

2022Alabama11-2HC: Nick Saban · Balanced

2023Alabama12-2HC: Nick Saban · Run-heavy

2024Alabama9-4HC: Kalen DeBoer · Run-leaning

2025Alabama11-4HC: Kalen DeBoer · Balanced

Our ratings

CFB Zeitgeist Score 79 (#14 of 146). Show the ratings

Where this profile ranks vs the QB cohort

Box-score + play-by-play EPA percentiles · 2025 season

79All-Conference level #14 of 146 · 2025?

Breakout13 metrics · season cumulative

2025 score: the 2026 sample is not big enough yet. The rows below are 2026 so far. Elite: interception rate (93rd percentile). Strength: epa / dropback (86th percentile). Concern: fumbles lost (0th percentile).

Real play-by-play efficiency

Interception rate#13 / 183 · 93rd pct

0.9%

EPA / dropback#27 / 183 · 86th pct

0.31

Success rate#28 / 183 · 84th pct

45.0%

Explosive rate#35 / 183 · 81st pct

11.0%

Sack rate#99 / 183 · 46th pct

5.3%

Box-score rates (8)

Pass yards#11 / 183 · 94th pct

3567

Pass TDs#12 / 183 · 93rd pct

Interceptions#53 / 183 · 67th pct

Completion %#62 / 183 · 66th pct

64.5%

Yards / att#63 / 183 · 63rd pct

7.5

Rush yards#107 / 183 · 42nd pct

Rush TDs#101 / 183 · 39th pct

Fumbles lost#174 / 174 · 0th pct

Season trend

EPA / dropback— first qualifying season

Success rate— first qualifying season

Explosive rate— first qualifying season

Sack rate— first qualifying season

Interception rate— first qualifying season

Percentiles versus same-position peers with enough snaps in 2025. Most bars are box-score rates; EPA / success-rate bars are computed from real play-by-play (offense only — no defensive EPA model exists yet).

Zeitgeist Passer Rating

2025 · our own passing-efficiency number, shown next to the 1979 formula it does not replace.

After 459 dropbacks

71Zeitgeist Passer Rating27th of 142 FBS QBs

NCAA passer rating 145.2 43rd of 142 FBS QBs

ZPR ranks this quarterback 16 places higher than passer rating does: positive plays and yards per attempt come at a higher rate than the box line suggests.

Positive-play rate weight 24%

49.7%80th pct of FBS QBs

share of dropbacks that gained expected points · +0.1% schedule adj.

Yards per attempt weight 56%

7.8178th pct of FBS QBs

sacks excluded · +0.2 schedule adj.

Sack rate weight 21% (penalty)

4.7%65th pct of FBS QBs

the input passer rating cannot see · -0.5% schedule adj.

Opponent-adjusted; garbage time excluded (30 of 489 dropbacks dropped). 50 = FBS average; the number is pulled toward 50 when the sample is thin. How ZPR is built.

Splits

Home and road splits, scheme and staff

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 15 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Home7g	279	1.9	10.2	0.6
Road6g	223	2.3	6.2	0.0

First half vs Second half

	YDS/g	TD/g	YPA	INT/g
Weeks 1-78g	247	2.2	8.7	0.1
Weeks 8+7g	227	1.4	6.9	0.6

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2025 season

Head Coach

Kalen DeBoer

Pass share

53.4%

523 pass / 456 run

Plays / game

65.3

15 games

Scheme: Balanced.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

All-Conference

Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score

79 · #14 of 146 QBs · 2025

Former five-star. Now #14 at the position.

Ty Simpson

Fans

Alabama in the news

Where to follow

Career stats

Game log

Highs and lows

Passing profile

Situational

Teams and coaches

Our ratings

Splits

Awards

All-Conference

Four seasons at Alabama, drafted

2022 3 games

2025 15 games

2026