There is no team we will learn more about over the next two weeks than the Los Angeles Rams, who have been a focal point of early trade deadline curiosity over the past week and will become the focal point of much larger and more significant conversations depending on what happens in their next two games against the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks.
The Rams have a 36-year-old Super Bowl–winning quarterback approaching a point in his contract that requires very serious conversations about long-term viability and mutual interest in continuing on. Matthew Stafford got more money injected into the 2024 season of his deal back in July. There were also conversations about Stafford being traded prior to the New York Jets acquiring Aaron Rodgers, which is not to say that Stafford is on the block, but that these concepts have already been introduced into the minds of everyone involved and would probably not come as a surprise as we barrel ahead toward the Nov. 5 trade deadline.
