McVay said.<\/a> \u201cStetson got the majority of those reps with the second group (second practice), but Ty came in today and did a nice job with the one set that he did have.\u201d<\/p>\nBennett opened training camp getting the first-team snaps with Stafford, entering his 18th season in the NFL, on a limited training camp schedule to maintain maximized health status.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll continue to evaluate (the QB position), but being able to figure out what that looks like is important,\u201d said McVay, who could opt to keep three quarterbacks on the roster if Bennett is impressive enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think both of those guys (Bennett and Simpson) have done a nice job, but having No. 9 (Stafford) out there, he looked pretty damn sharp, so it\u2019s good to have him back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stafford, who missed the majority of fall camp last year because of a severe back issue, noted that Bennett had a particularly impressive play in the team\u2019s opening fall practice.<\/p>\n
In discussing the Rams competitive balance in fall drills, Stafford let slip that Bennett had a \u201cbig-time\u201d throw to star receiver Puka Nacua.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s plays out there where we just miss on one because it\u2019s great defense, and Sean highlights them in team meetings,\u201d Stafford said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the flip side, I know our defense enjoys in that same meeting watching Stetson Bennett slide to his left and hit a big-time in-cut (route) that was an unbelievable play and throw to Puka \u2026 \u201c<\/p>\n
Bennett\u2019s opportunity to win the second-team job opened up when veteran Jimmy Garoppolo \u2014 Stafford\u2019s backup the past two seasons \u2014 stepped away as a free-agent to consider retirement.<\/p>\n
Neither Bennett nor Simpson stood out in the spring drills, per published reports.<\/p>\n
McVay, however, gave a positive report on Bennett following the OTA workouts, noting the \u201ctremendous growth\u201d of the two-time Georgia CFP Championship Game MVP.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s earning the confidence of his teammates in terms of commanding the huddle,\u201d McVay said on the Rams team website. \u201cThen, he\u2019s done a lot of good stuff in terms of reading with his feet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Georgia starter and four-year NFL backup QB veteran Jake Fromm noted the challenge for Bennett, who\u2019s in the final year of his $4.5 million contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot invested in Ty to get up to speed, get repetitions, and at the end of the day, play quarterback for the Rams,\u201d Fromm told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. \u201cIt\u2019s not impossible for Stetson to overcome, but it\u2019s a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bennett showed great improvement in his preseason play from his second year in the league to his third, to the extent optimism was building that he could be ready to play if Stafford didn\u2019t return from injury.<\/p>\n
Bennett improved his preseason NFL game completion percentage from 59% in 2024 to 69% in 2025, and his touchdown-interception ratio went from 2 TDs and 5 interceptions to 5 TDs with three interceptions.<\/p>\n
Stafford is not expected to see much, if any, action in the preseason, so Bennett is expected to see a great deal of action in the Rams\u2019 preseason games, along with Simpson.<\/p>\n
The L.A. Rams open their three-game preseason on Aug. 15 playing at Kansas City against the Chiefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stetson Bennett\u2019s NFL future is on the line in Los Angeles as he battles to win the second-team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,133523,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-792679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-georgia-uga-georgia-football-kirby-smart","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}