{"id":567902,"date":"2026-03-29T04:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567902\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T04:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T04:01:09","slug":"rams-might-make-a-move-for-matthew-staffords-successor-at-the-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567902\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams Might Make a Move for Matthew Stafford\u2019s Successor at the NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Stafford will be the starting quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n

After winning the most important individual award of his career, league MVP, the 38-year-old announced that he would be returning to the NFC Championship finalists for another go at a second ring with the franchise.<\/p>\n

But what about 2027?<\/p>\n

What about 2028?<\/p>\n

The Rams are not looking to rebuild. They have a young core built around the likes of Puka Nacua, Jared Verse, Kyren Williams, and now Trent McDuffie.<\/p>\n

Regardless of whether Stafford retires next year or three years from now, the Rams aren’t in, and no way should they want to be in a rebuilding phase.<\/p>\n

So while there will be tons of rumors about making another Jared Goff-for-Matthew Stafford-style trade to get an elite QB who needs a change of scenery, like Josh Allen or Joe Burrow, those aren’t likely to happen.<\/p>\n

If the Rams do want to nip the anxiety of finding Stafford’s successor in the bud, they can do it with the upcoming NFL Draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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They do have the No. 13 pick and could go for a QB, but it would feel like a reach at that position, with Fernando Mendoza expected to go first overall to the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n

But trading back into the first round isn’t out of the ordinary for teams, and the Rams have been rumored to be interested in Alabama’s Ty Simpson.<\/p>\n

While that would seem like the obvious move, the Rams could make a savvy play with a head coach, Sean McVay, who is known for getting the most out of raw prospects. He did it with Jared Goff nearly a decade ago, and he could do it again.<\/p>\n

Instead of using draft capital on Simpson, the Rams should look at a day-two QB with a high ceiling and an equally low floor. Before the 2025 college football season, LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier and Penn State’s Drew Allar were projected to be top-five picks in the 2026 NFL<\/a> Draft.<\/p>\n

While neither panned out, a lot of it due to injuries for both, they are still prototypical NFL quarterbacks with strong arms, big builds, and the raw talent to be something in the NFL.<\/p>\n

Neither Nussmeier nor Allar is anywhere near ready to start in the NFL, but that’s a good thing for the Rams. They don’t want a starter for at least a year, two, or three.<\/p>\n

In a draft where the desperate teams in need of a starting QB could reach for Simpson or simply look towards 2027’s crop, which might include Arch Manning, the Rams have the mentor, coach, and system that could turn a quiet second- or third-day pick into the best signing five years from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford will be the starting quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams in 2026. After winning the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,1749,514,1044,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-567902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-draft","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}