After the 2024 season, the Rams gave quarterback Matthew Stafford permission to seek a trade. That likely won’t be happening again after the 2025 season.

Stafford’s contract runs through 2026. Stafford is due to make $40 million next year, none of which is currently guaranteed. The full payment vests, however, on the fifth day of the 2026 league year.

The Rams and Stafford have, in recent years, maintained a year-to-year relationship . Based on past statements from the team to that effect, the Rams should give Stafford an out, if he wants one.

He likely doesn’t. His effort to explore other options earlier this year with the Giants and Raiders seemed to be about getting more money from the Rams — to the chagrin of the Giants and Raiders. Still, if teams knew then what they know now,

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