{"id":277600,"date":"2025-08-10T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/277600\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:00:13","slug":"matthew-stafford-injury-update-nfl-insider-reveals-latest-on-rams-qb-status-for-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/277600\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford injury update: NFL insider reveals latest on Rams QB, status for Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Stafford<\/a> has been dealing with a lower back injury throughout training camp, but the Los Angeles Rams QB should be good for the regular season. ESPN\u2019s Jeremy Fowler reported it\u2019s been more of a cautious approach for the veteran signal caller.<\/p>\n

Despite there being some concerns for the aging quarterback, Stafford is on track for the Rams\u2019 regular season opener. LA opens up at home against the Houston Texans on Sunday, September 7th.<\/p>\n

As long as Stafford is on track to practice fully and perhaps get a few game reps in, it\u2019ll be business as usual. Sure, he\u2019ll need to warm up, but a veteran such as him should have no problem getting back into rhythm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Matthew Stafford is tracking for Week 1,\u201d Fowler said on SportsCenter. \u201cThe Rams feel good about that. They were just erring on the side of caution here because they\u2019re dealing with a lower back injury, so they just didn\u2019t want to re-aggravate that. He\u2019s had back issues in the past. He\u2019s played through a lot of injuries over the years, so 37 years old, they\u2019re just trying to monitor him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rams goal really was, as long as we get him back by mid-August, early to mid-August, that he could start practicing, getting in the rhythm of that second or third preseason game. Leading up to it, they felt they\u2019d be in good shape with him being ready for Week 1. They didn\u2019t want to put him in a week early where he\u2019d get a setback. So it looks like everything went well on Saturday, Monday, he could be, you know, somewhat limited, though, ease him back in, and it should be tracking well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading the Rams to the Divisional Round last season, Stafford played 16 regular season games. He threw for 3,762 yards, 20 touchdowns, eight interceptions and a 65.8% completion percentage.<\/p>\n

Head coach Sean McVay\u2019s comments gave a specific timeline of what to expect. It appears Stafford could be ready to go, based on how his workout goes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s due to get a workout in on the day of our preseason game where he\u2019s going to throw, and that was on par with the schedule that we always had. You\u2019ll see him in practice next week. He won\u2019t participate in the Chargers practice just because of \u2013 we\u2019re looking at it like he\u2019s got an acclimation period that\u2019ll really start on Saturday once we play the Cowboys,\u201d McVay said to start out with the media on Thursday<\/a>. \u201cSaturday, for the guys not playing in that preseason game, will represent a great opportunity for Matthew to really start getting out on the field with his guys. And then, whenever we come back on Monday, you\u2019ll start to see him take part in individuals, all those things, which is exactly what was on par with the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford has been dealing with a lower back injury throughout training camp, but the Los Angeles Rams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,47895,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-277600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-matthew-stafford-06-highland-park","10":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115006015010773061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}