CARD: Topps AAF 2019 Certified
ACQUIRED: 2019, Box Breaker
FAILURE: TTM 2019, C/o Home

CAREER SNAPSHOT:

• After a year at Louisville, and then Torrance JC, Matt Simms transferred to Tennessee for 2010.
• He threw for 1460 yards and 8 TDs while completing 113 of 195 pass attempts.
• After going unselected during the 2012 NFL Draft, he’d sign a free agent contract with the New York Jets, and spent the season on and off the practice squad roster and futures list.
• Simms saw a promising preseason in 2013, and then later threw his first professional football TD late in the season.
• After seeing limited playing time again in the 2014 season, the team drafted two quarterbacks during the 2015 NFL Draft.
• Simms would be claimed off of waivers in 2015 by the Buffalo Bills.
• He’d join the Falcons practice squad after that and be on and off the team’s practice squad through 2017- when he was released with an injury settlement.
• Matt was selected during the second round of the ‘Protect or Pick’ AAF QB draft by the Atlanta Legends.
• The Legends went back and forth all season between Matt and former Georgia star Aaron Murray.
• Threw for 842 yards and 2 TDs (8 INT) on 79 of 132 passes for Atlanta.
• After the AAF collapsed in 2019, Matt resigned with the Falcons, but was placed on IR soon thereafter, ending his season and his career.

NOTES:

Great autograph and card. Love the ‘Caesar-esque’ pose. Matt comes from a solid line of QB bloodlines, with his father Phil and brother Chris, both playing in the NFL at the position as well. I took a shot on Matt on his Topps AAF base card at his parent’s house back in 2019, thinking he’d open it over Christmas- but going on 3 years now, no dice.