The Los Angeles Rams are signing QB Matthew Stafford to a one-year, $55 million contract extension worth up to $60 million in incentives according to Adam Schefter.
Los Angeles drafted rookie QB Ty Simpson in the first-round in April’s draft with the idea that he would sit behind Stafford for at least a season. It appears as if he will have to wait until at least 2028 to become a full-time starter.
Stafford, 37, is a former first-round pick of the Lions, who took him with the No. 1 overall pick out of Georgia in 2009. He was in the final year of a five-year, $76.5 million contract when he and the Lions agreed to a five-year, $135 million extension back in 2017.
Stafford was involved in a blockbuster trade that sent him to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for QB Jared Goff and draft picks in 2021. He signed a four-year extension worth $160 million that included $135 million guaranteed a year later.
The Rams and Stafford later reworked that deal going into the 2024 season, moving money up from the back of the contract. Stafford was due $27 million and $31 million in the final two years of his deal when the two sides reworked his existing contract again in 2025.
In 2025, Stafford appeared in all 17 games for the Rams and threw for 4,707 yards while completing 65.0 percent of his passes for 46 touchdowns and eight interceptions.
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