Might history repeat itself for the Los Angeles Rams at the quarterback position?
Rams fans already understand that the team gave itself some flexibility in 2025 when readjusting Matthew Stafford’s contract, morphing it effectively into a one-year, $40 million deal and removing the guarantees from 2025.
So…could that flexibility include current Dallas Cowboys superstar quarterback Dak Prescott?
That’s something floated by Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, who listed seven possible destinations for Prescott in 2025 and listed the Rams at the bottom:
“There are plenty of indications this could be Matthew Stafford’s last season in L.A. The Rams might need a replacement in 2024.
I wonder if they’d be interested in a veteran quarterback whose teams have chronically underachieved?
They were in 2021, when they traded for Stafford. They could get Dak with having to eff them picks.”
It’s going to be a polarizing thing for fans. Stafford led the team to a Super Bowl in his first year, struggled through injuries in 2022, then threw for 3,965 yards, 24 touchdowns and 11 interceptions en route to the playoffs again.
That said, he’ll also be 37 years old next February. If the contracts are similar as both guys seek to top the surging quarterback market, Prescott will only turn 32 next summer and boasts a stellar resume of his own, what with completing 67 percent of his passes since 2016 with 202 touchdowns and indeed, experience uplifting an underachieving program.
Prescott is likely to check the open market given his no-tag clause and that could be one of the many factors the Rams considered when redoing the deal with Stafford. The front office wouldn’t be doing proper due diligence if it wasn’t aware of who might become available, when.
The Rams having even the slightest interest in Prescott would make some sense. And while it might feel like he’d never actually leave the Cowboys…most probably thought the same about Stafford and the Detroit Lions, too, right?