With Matthew Stafford as the only quarterback on the roster, the Los Angeles Rams were expected to take another one at some point during the 2023 NFL draft. In the fourth round, they selected Stetson Bennett out of Georgia a two-time national champion. Recently, general manager Les Snead went on the Rich Eisen Show and he unsurprisingly iterated that the Rams plan on having Bennett become the immediate backup to Matthew Stafford in 2023.
“I would say on paper that that is our vision. Anytime you go into the draft, you never know with a QB, there’s only so many of them,” Snead said. “But we did think that it could be very beneficial if we could find a young quarterback to develop as a backup. That way you don’t get into, let’s call it, renting QBs for a year. And also, with our cap situation, veteran backups do cost more in salary against the cap than players on their rookie contracts. So there’s a lot of variables in that.
