The restructuring by the Rams of Matthew Stafford’s quarter-arre in February has cemented which will be a quarter-back from the team in 2025. But the nature of the restructuring leaves a lot of questions about the way Rams approach the position in 2026 and beyond.
The decision-makers of the RAMs, of head coach Sean Mcvay to the Director General Les SNEAD, explained how they want Stafford to play for the franchise “as long as he wants to play”. Given the level that Stafford has carried out the last two seasons, raising a team besieged by injuries in two consecutive appearances, the interest in a continuous partnership is logical.
But Stafford was 37 years old in February. And the RAMs only restructure the first of two years remaining in the staff agreement, which means that the two parties will also have to travel contractual talks next year.
Now, enter a draft class in which the teams do not know which quarter-arre beyond Cam Ward deserve to be the best choices. Players like Sheder Sanders de Colorado and Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart could slip at the start of the first round, which would present the Rams a decision to make with the 26th choice.
Go there in the construction of a competitor around Stafford in 2025? Or make a decision in an eye around 2026 and beyond by selecting a potential successor that can benefit from learning behind Stafford this fall?
“Even if we have identified someone, it is sometimes difficult to acquire them, then you are launching, okay, wait a minute. We have Matthew and we want to hunt` special ”, whatever the special, so maybe it is better to write another position player and continue this way, “said SNEAD last month on a zoom call with journalists. “You always balance these two things, but finding the next QB, it is easier to say than to do. I think we saw it during history, Green Bay Packers have done a good job.”
Packers have twice this century a first round this century to obtain their quarter of the future. It was first of all the choice n ° 24 in 2005 for Aaron Rodgers, who learned behind Brett Favre for three years. Then it was the 26th choice on Jordan Love in 2020 to learn behind Rodgers.
The first case surprised anyone; Favre had alluded to retirement. The second did it, as many wondered why the packers had not taken a player – namely a receiver – who would help Rodgers to win in Green Bay.
It is the stiff rope that the Rams must walk this week when they decide what to do with the choice n ° 26. Sanders and Dart could fall because these are erroneous prospects. The fundamentals of Sanders are trembling and could cause expensive errors in the NFL. Dart comes from an offense to Ole Miss which emphasized predetermined readings and does not necessarily translate into NFL.
But, as SNEAD said, learning behind Stafford would facilitate a large part of these concerns for Rams, in the long term. But does this approach prevail by the possibility of going all the time 2025?
The Rams were the only team to have given Philadelphia to a possible champion of any type of fight in the playoffs. A receiver to align next to Puka Nacua and Davante Adams could be extremely beneficial for the team’s prospects in 2025. A secondary or a cornerback too, if the good fall at the end of the first round.
An offensive tackle would probably be a long -term choice, but he could benefit from Stafford in 2026 if Rob Havenstein’s recovery right after this season. And the RAMs could exchange and approach one of these four positions, or a tight end, while adding additional capital to strengthen the list.
This approach would boot the question of the quarter at least a year. This could potentially mean that Stafford retires without the RAMs having a ready replacement, and without the capital of capital to acquire one.
Does this prevail over the advantages of construction around Stafford in the short term? This is what SNEAD, Mcvay and the rest of the Rams derivation will have to decide this week.
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California Daily Newspapers
