The Los Angeles Rams are resting quarterback Matthew Stafford and can get started Jimmy Garoppolo for the regular-season finale on Sunday towards the visiting Seattle Seahawks.
Rams trainer Sean McVay made the announcement Wednesday after giving a sign Monday that he deliberate to leisure lots of the crew’s key starters.
The Rams (10-6) have received the NFC West through distinctive feature of a tiebreaker will have to they lose to the second-place Seahawks (9-7). Los Angeles might be at house for the wild-card spherical, both as a fourth or 3rd seed within the NFC playoffs.
A victory over Seattle may transfer Los Angeles from fourth to 3rd and a recreation towards both the Washington Commanders or Inexperienced Bay Packers. A loss to the Seahawks and a win through Tampa Bay (9-7) over the New Orleans Saints would spice up the Buccaneers to the 3rd seed, and the Rams would host the loser of the Minnesota Vikings vs. Detroit Lions as the ones groups struggle for the highest seed.
Stafford, 36, has began all 16 video games and finished 340 of 517 passes (65.8 %) for three,762 yards and 20 touchdowns with 8 interceptions.
The primary total pick out of the 2009 NFL Draft through Detroit, Stafford has handed for 59,809 yards, 377 touchdowns and 188 interceptions in 222 video games (all begins) for the Lions (2009-20) and Rams (2021-present).
He was once voted to the Professional Bowl in 2014 and 2023.
Garoppolo, 33, is in his first season with the Rams after signing as a unfastened agent in March and has no longer gave the impression in a recreation. He has thrown for 15,494 profession yards, 94 TDs and 51 choices in 81 video games (63 begins) for the New England Patriots (2014-16), San Francisco 49ers (2017-22) and Las Vegas Raiders (2023).
New England decided on him in the second one spherical of the 2014 draft out of Japanese Illinois.
–Box Stage Media
