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Sarah BarshopJul 26, 2025, 06:45 PM ET
- Sarah Barshop covers the Los Angeles Rams for ESPN. She joined ESPN successful 2016 to screen the Green Bay Packers for ESPN Milwaukee. She past moved to Houston to screen the Texans. She came to ESPN aft moving arsenic a writer and exertion for Sports Illustrated.
LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Rams backmost Matthew Stafford, who is dealing with backmost soreness, volition not instrumentality to signifier adjacent week arsenic anticipated, manager Sean McVay said connected Saturday.
Last week, McVay said Stafford, 37, would beryllium constricted to commencement grooming campy but is "absolutely" expected to beryllium acceptable for the regular season. Even aft Stafford returns to practice, the Rams mean to support the backmost connected a modified schedule, on with a fewer different seasoned violative players.
On Saturday, McVay said Stafford did not acquisition a setback, but that it feels similar "the astute happening to bash a week astatine a clip with him."
McVay reiterated that the extremity is for Stafford to beryllium acceptable for the Rams' play opener against the Houston Texans and that helium doesn't "have immoderate crushed for concern" that Stafford volition not signifier connected Monday.
"I don't deliberation we tin beryllium astute capable with idiosyncratic similar Matthew [Stafford] and I deliberation it's champion for him, champion for our shot team, and that's benignant of the program that we'll person moving forward," McVay said.
For the archetypal week of grooming camp, Stafford has spent astir of signifier distant from the tract moving with the Rams' grooming staff. On Saturday, helium watched portion of signifier from the field.
In 16 games past season, Stafford completed 65.8% of his passes for 3,762 yards and 20 touchdowns. He did not play successful the regular play finale due to the fact that the Rams had clinched the NFC West.
