Stafford, 37, played every game in 2025 and had one of his best statistical seasons. He’s a finalist for the league MVP award.
Coming off the Rams’ emotional, 31-27 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC championship game, quarterback Matthew Stafford declined to say whether or not he planned to return for an 18th NFL season.
Stafford put together his best game of the postseason, completing 22 of 35 passes for 374 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions. But he was not able to come up with a third game-winning, fourth-quarter drive. Instead, he threw two incompletions at the goal line to turn the ball over on downs with 4:54 to play, before only being able to run two plays before running out of time on the final possession of the game.
A finalist for the league’s MVP award, Stafford, 37, was asked to summarize his 17th season and whether or not he planned to be back for the 2026 campaign.
“I can’t generalize six months of my life 10 minutes after a loss.
