Per ESPN’s Sarah Barshop, Rams HC Sean McVay expects QB Matthew Stafford to start Week 1.

Stafford has been dealing with a herniated disc in his back this offseason, including getting an epidural and some other interventions.

Stafford, 37, is a former first-round pick of the Lions, who took him with the No. 1 overall pick out of Georgia in 2009. He was in the final year of a five-year, $76.5 million contract when he and the Lions agreed to a five-year, $135 million extension back in 2017.

Stafford was involved in a blockbuster trade that sent him to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for QB Jared Goff and draft picks in 2021. He signed a four-year extension worth $160 million that included $135 million guaranteed a year later.

The Rams and Stafford later reworked that deal going into the

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