Matthew Stafford has an uncertain future with the Los Angeles Rams due to his dissatisfaction with his contract. The Rams recently gave Stafford’s agent, CAA Football Jimmy Sexton. Permission to speak It mainly measures to measure the market value of the quarterback, as he hasn’t seen the parties turn his attention to his contract for a while. Exercise opens door a Potential Stafford Trade. According to NFL Media’s Peter Schrager, Stafford is looking for at least $50 million a year in a renegotiation agreement.
Reports of Stafford complaining about his contract first began to surface around the NFL Draft last April. The Band-Aid approach was adopted at the start of training camp last July at the start of training camp, where $5 million was moved between 2025 and 2024. As part of reducing Stafford’s 2025 compensation from $32 million to $27 million, the offset language was removed from the fully guaranteed third day (March 14) of the 2025 League Year Roster Bonus (March 14) from $5 million to $400,000 to $400,000. Stafford’s $10 million base salary guarantee for 2025 has also been removed. Stafford’s 2026 contract year was worth $31 million, unsecured. Stafford remains on the contract for two years for $58 million.
Stafford, who recently turned 37, has no one else to take responsibility for his current plight. The Rams won the Super Bowl in their first season in Los Angeles and the acquisition cost to acquire him from the Detroit Lions in March 2021, so they would have had enough leverage to actually name their own price on the 2022 contract extension.
Instead of taking full advantage of the substantial contract leverage, Stafford made the conscious decision to sign Dallas Cowboys quarterback Duck Prescott for $40 million a year, and voluntarily leave him at the table in a deal that linked him to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Duck Prescott. His four-year, $160 million contract extension included a $135 million guarantee.
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Stafford also did not obtain a no-trade clause in his contract. When Stafford signed the deal, quarterbacks among the league’s highest-paid players included Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Prescott, Desshaun Watson and Russell Wilson.
Stafford did this knowing that Aaron Rodgers had just reset his quarterback pay scale a few days ago, becoming the first $50 million annual player in the NFL. The Green Bay Packers signed a contract with Rogers that was considered $15,0815 million over three years, averaging $50,271,667 per year, but two sub-market (2025 and 2026) added to the deal. The new benchmark for football contract security was established at $150,665 million in total guarantee and $11.5515 million in fully guaranteed at signing.
Stafford should already have a $50 million contract annually. The Rams probably wouldn’t alk if Stafford had given up on being at the top of the NFL salary tier with a four-year $202 million extension.
The quarterback market began to change days when the Cleveland Browns surprisingly guaranteed Watson a five-year, five-year, $230 million deal, and gave him a contract average of $46 million a year, despite four years remaining on his contract.
There are currently nine quarterbacks, ranging from Prescott’s $60 million a year to $60 million a year with the Cowboys to an average of over $50 million a year from Super Bowl Ricks champions Philadelphia Eagles. Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence and Jordan Love are just behind Prescott on quarterback pay totem poles with $55 million annual deals from the Cincinnati Bengals, Jacksonville Jaguars and Packers each. Next is an annual deal of $53.1 million, $52.5 million and $52 million with the Miami Dolphins, Lions, Los Angeles Charger and Baltimore Ravens, Tua Tagovailoa’s, Goff’s, Goff’s, Justin Herbert’s and Lamar Jackson, respectively.
Stafford is currently the 15th highest paying player in the NFL, with $40 million a year. This includes some subtractions from the top edge of the quarterback market. Rodgers dropped out of the $50 million annual club when, after a 2023 trade with the Packers in 2023, he received unexpectedly heavy pay cuts to allow the New York Jets to build a more competitive roster. The Denver Broncos released Wilson last March from a five-year $245 million extension, signing an average of $49 million in August 2022. Jones was worth up to $195 million in March 2023 thanks to incentives and pay escalators.
Additional quarterbacks could surpass the $50 million annual mark before the 2025 regular season began. Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Bean has not ruled out Allen’s new contract, but he remains on the contract for four years. With the 2024 NFL MVP Award winning, Allen gives Prescott enough ammunition to replace him with the NFL’s highest-paid player. The San Francisco 49ers will struggle to hold the line financially with Brock Purdy in their contract year when inexperienced Jimmy Garoppolo became the league’s finest player in 2018, following a midseason trade from the New England Patriots a few months ago, and when inexperienced Jimmy Garoppolo became the league’s finest player in 2018, the league’s top payer.
If he was driving a hard bargain in negotiations in 2022, it’s a completely different dynamic than what Stafford faces. There is no current contract drama between Stafford and the Rams.
Assuming the strong 2022 extension’s cash flow rate was replicated on a $50 million annual contract, Stafford wouldn’t have the good legitimacy to demand more money. Having 41.25% and 60.63% of the new money throughout the second and third new contract years is essentially equivalent to $122.5 million and $163 million at each of these transactions.
Until the first three new contract years running until 2025, the average $54,333,333 annually would have had Stafford on par with Tagovailoa. Stafford is ahead of Herbert, Jackson and Herts, who are $53,333,333,52 million, $52 million a year, and $51 million after the first three new contract years.
With Stafford considered a top-10 quarterback, releasing or trading him probably wouldn’t be a realistic way to compete with a 2025 salary cap number that is over $60 million. Trade Stafford would have requested that he waive his no-trade clause anyway. Carrying Stafford to such an outrageous cap number or restructuring Stafford’s contract for the purposes of caps would have been the most likely course of action.
I don’t pay home discounts
Getting a home town discount seems to actually work better for most players with theory. Drew Brees would have had the leverage to become the NFL’s first $30 million player on a short-term contract when he chose to give the New Orleans Saints a financial break for the first time in order to maximize their chances of getting a 39-year-old Super Bowl ring during numerous contract deals with the 39-year-old franchise. He retired in 2021 as a one-time Super Bowl champion.
Rogers reduced compensation for 2023 and 2024 by $33.765 million after the trade with the Jets was not translated into a defeat column. Once the 2025 league year begins on March 12th, he will be released on designations from June 1st onwards.
Even Tom Brady, the poster boy to receive a discount in his hometown, was ultimately hoping for more money due to changing market conditions. In 2018, a $5 million incentive was added to Brady’s contract. Brady received a $8 million salary increase in 2019. This was his contract year when he was 42 years old. The New England Patriot has also added language to Brady’s contracts that prevent franchise or transition tags from being used by him.
In all fairness, Brady is the exception. Instead of driving the quarterback market as a 35-year-old 13-year-old NFL veteran in 2013, the Patriots were able to frame a more talented roster than would otherwise have been possible when he began to leave money at the table. The Patriots won the Super Bowl twice in three appearances after Brady began trading below the market.
If Stafford could go back in time, I think he would have earned as much money from the Rams as possible in 2022. For Stafford, it does not give unwillingness to do so, given his strong dislike to meet his contract demands and his contract demands from Los Angeles.
