We made it two days earlier than our first wild rumor of the 2025 NFL offseason.
On Wednesday, ESPN NFL staff writer Kevin Seifert reported that the Rams will talk about quarterback Matthew Stafford’s future within the coming weeks.
“Stafford … has no assured cash left on his contract… The Rams might modify his contract, commerce him or launch him,” wrote Seifert.
What looks like a no brainer — retaining Stafford — won’t be clear-cut.
Right here is our rating of the highest locations for Stafford in 2025.
5. Minnesota Vikings
2024 starter: Sam Darnold
The Vikings want a quarterback who performs his finest within the huge moments, not one who sees ghosts.
2024 first-round decide J.J. McCarthy, a 2023 school soccer nationwide champion at Michigan, would possibly match that invoice. However with the Vikings ready to contend for a Tremendous Bowl, ought to they put the destiny of their 2025 season within the arms of a quarterback with no profession NFL go makes an attempt?
Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell was Stafford’s offensive coordinator in 2021 when the Rams gained Tremendous Bowl LVI.
It is simple to get enthusiastic about an offense that features Stafford, huge receivers Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and tight finish T.J. Hockenson. Paired with Minnesota’s excellent protection, that may very well be a crew that challenges the Philadelphia Eagles for the NFC throne.
4. Pittsburgh Steelers
2024 starter: Russell Wilson
The Steelers are unsettled at quarterback. Wilson (11 video games) and Justin Fields (six video games), the 2024 starters, will every enter free company subsequent month.
Earlier this offseason, Steelers proprietor Artwork Rooney II stated he’d choose to have one of many two return for 2025.
“They’re each succesful quarterbacks, and my choice could be to signal certainly one of them,” he stated. (h/t ESPN)
One other quarterback may be an choice.
On Tuesday, multiple
publications
shared the percentages for four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers’ subsequent NFL house after NFL insider Jay Glazer revealed on Tremendous Bowl Sunday that the Jets intend to launch him.
The Steelers (+200) are the favourite to land Rodgers. Nevertheless, that will not sit properly with everybody in Pittsburgh’s locker room.
Per Bleacher Report, security DeShon Elliot explicitly got here out in opposition to the potential addition.
“Depart his a– on the retirement house,” Elliot stated.
