Rams & Matthew Stafford Finalize New Deal

Rapoport mentions Stafford will earn $44 million total this season, as $4 million has already been paid and the other $40 million is fully guaranteed.

It’s also worth noting Stafford will be on the books for $84 million over the next two seasons if he’s on the roster to begin free agency in 2026, per Rapoport. He was previously scheduled to count for $58 million for the two years before the re-worked deal. 

Los Angeles HC Sean McVay earlier expressed his hope that Stafford can play for them for a few more seasons.

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 2024, Stafford appeared in 16 games for the Rams and threw for 3,762 yards while completing 65.8 percent of his passes for 20 touchdowns and eight interceptions.