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Article on what the Rams could do with Stafford on ESPN+

  • November 30, 2022


Stafford:

The Rams paid a Super Bowl championship tax when they extended Stafford in the offseason. Yes, the deal helped them manage their 2022 salary cap, but they also structured it in a way that likely ties them to a 34-year-old quarterback who came into the season with an elbow problem and has missed time recently due to concussion and neck problems. Stafford got a $60 million signing bonus and fully guaranteed salaries of $1.5 million this year and next year, so $63 million guaranteed at signing.

If he’s still on the Rams’ roster at the start of the 2023 league year, then both a $26 million 2023 option bonus and his $31 million 2024 salary become fully guaranteed. So, either they cut him after this year, having paid him $63 million for one season and eat $75.5 million in dead-money cap charges, or they keep him on the 2023 roster and end up paying him $120 million over three years from 2022-24. Odds are, they choose the latter option, but who knows? A few years back we did a similar look at QB contracts where we claimed the Rams would never be willing to absorb Jared Goff’s dead-money charge, but they did, and eventually won the Super Bowl as a result.

Full article here: [https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/\_/id/35138655/the-nfl-quarterback-contract-details-need-know-2023-offseason](https://www.espn.com/nfl/insider/story/_/id/35138655/the-nfl-quarterback-contract-details-need-know-2023-offseason) which also includes Kyler, Carr, Jimmy G, Rodgers, Russ, Ryan, Brady, Goff, Prescott, Tannehill, Cousins

4 comments

  1. I’m ready for all these rebuild posts to start getting deleted now. Gets very old to see the same tired shit regurgitated. Can we get some help here, mods?

  2. Anyone else feel like he’s going to retire before his contact ends?

    I just can’t see him playing 3 more years whether it’s with the Rams or not.

  3. This shit is getting nuts to even suggest cutting Stafford. After watching Wolford and Perkins it’s abundantly clear 9 is not the problem.

  4. Or idk they restructure it again. It’s not rocket science. Nor are they in a bad situation with him. He will get almost a year’s worth of rest before camp starts. If he comes to camp with the same injuries, then there can be some cause for concern but until then, this is all just crazy.

    In a few months, this sub will be back to “fuck dem picks.” And it will be hilarious.

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