I would not - because Bo Nix can't throw the football downfield or even to the intermediate level with any sort of accuracy (i.e., not without someone big and physical like Sutton getting the ball); most of his throws are short or at the line of scrimmage for maximum YAC, or eight/nine/ten-yard passes to Sutton or another taller player who can come up with the pass with their catch radius.
To Asshole Face's (not even using his actual name because he is a raging asshole with a punchable face) credit, he knows how to take advantage of Nix's strengths: his legs, mostly, to make off-schedule plays and scheduling throws for an accurate short-range arm. Now, Asshole Face's dumbass call is also what got Nix hurt and missing the playoffs game against the Cheatriots and possibly even longer (into next season). Will Nix be better without the use of his legs? We'll see. It was still a shitty overdrafted pick like Penix and McCarthy that had Verse fall to us, same as the Locker, Gabbert, and Ponder picks dropped Quinn into our laps at #14 in 2011.
Now, to be fair to Simpson, he has much more going for him than Nix ever did. He can hit the intermediate levels to an extent. He's a better internal processor and anticipates routes much better than Nix did. But what he doesn't have is the amount of starts and an injury history and frame that is concerning, nor does he have the pure arm to make the throws that Stafford can make in his sleep (still better than Nix's arm, though).
He is a second-round prospect in a good draft class. In this class, he will be drafted at least in the top ten because there are too many teams who have shitty QB situations in this class and because this is an otherwise weak class period. One of said shitty-QB-situation teams will either select him with a top ten pick or trade up to select him in the top ten because any QB needy team will jump at a solution QB with any sort of pulse and even those who are flatlining, but have a big arm.
It's also why I think Trinidad Chambliss is a fucking moron for filing a lawsuit to have him stay at Ole Miss for one more year when he could've easily been a first round pick in this class - maybe even a top fifteen pick - and might not be in the first round for the next one, but that's a different tale to tell, and I digress.
