The Los Angeles Rams are in perhaps one of the best positions of any team entering the offseason.
After a 12-5 season, the Rams will enter the offseason with two first-round picks (No. 13 and No. 29), allowing Sean McVay to continue to add young, start-studded talent to a team that was already packed with it.
Not often does a team have two first-round selections, but for the Rams, it might have come at the perfect time, with Matthew Stafford’s future a little murky with the potential that the soon-to-be 38-year-old might retire.
And for ESPN’s Aaron Schatz, in his big offseason prediction, the Rams use one of their first-round picks to trade up and get Stafford’s successor.
“The Rams will trade up in the draft for a quarterback,” Schatz wrote. “They need a young talent for when Stafford is ready to hang ’em up, whether that’s this offseason or in a few years. What better time to plan for the future than when they have two first-round picks?”
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Will Stafford retire?
In truth, only Stafford knows that. And at nearly 38 years old and having accomplished nearly everything there is to in the game (MVP could be the missing piece), it wouldn’t shock us to see Stafford ride off into the sunset.
On the other side of the coin, given how well Stafford played in 2025, to the point where he is one of the favorites for the MVP award, there is also a path where he goes around again. After all, the Rams were one game away from the Super Bowl.
The coming weeks and months will be interesting for Stafford’s future, and if the Super Bowl-winner does return, expect the Rams to once again be in the thick of the conversation for the NFL’s best team in 2026.
