{"id":333929,"date":"2025-09-01T20:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/333929\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:36:11","slug":"matthew-stafford-will-start-the-season-opener-against-the-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/333929\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford will start the season opener against the Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if there was any doubt, Rams coach Sean McVay ended it Monday. McVay announced that Matthew Stafford will indeed start the season opener against the Texans.<\/p>\n<p>A week ago, McVay said Stafford was on track to start Week 1 barring a setback.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Stafford participated fully in practice the past two weeks after missing training camp with a disc injury in his back.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford, entering his 17th NFL season, completed 65.8 percent of his throws for 3,762 yards with 20 touchdowns and eight interceptions in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Garoppolo took the first-team reps with Stafford sidelined. He is expected to be the Rams\u2019 backup quarterback in 2025 with Stetson Bennett the team\u2019s No. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As if there was any doubt, Rams coach Sean McVay ended it Monday. McVay announced that Matthew Stafford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,7841,32,6,15,3307,471,7577],"class_list":{"0":"post-333929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jimmy-garoppolo","10":"tag-matthew-stafford","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-draft","13":"tag-sean-mcvay","14":"tag-stetson-bennett","15":"tag-the-texans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333929","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=333929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}