As soon as the 2024 NFL season wrapped up, one of the big questions was whether or not Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford would return to the NFL in 2025 and, if he did, if it would be with the Rams. Stafford is a Super Bowl-winning signal-caller, so plenty of teams could have used his veteran experience, including the New York Giants and Las Vegas Raiders, who were both reportedly very interested in Stafford.
But, in early March, Stafford inked a fresh deal with the team for the 2025 season. Rams head coach Sean McVay has said that the contract will probably be looked at again in 2026, so they're going year by year with their commitment.
"I'm excited to be back," Stafford said Wednesday, March 5, via the Los Angeles Times.
So, Stafford is excited to be back with the Rams, but what about his wife, Kelly?
“Let's go! [I’m so] excited. Thank goodness," Kelly, 35, said on the Friday, March 14, episode of the Give Them Lala podcast. "That was, obviously, what I wanted all along and what my husband wanted all along. We didn't want to leave. He loves the Rams, so we're just pumped that, one, we’re here and, two, it's over."
Kelly added that the "relief" she felt from the deal "was pretty unreal."
"You know, you just wake up every morning [and] there's a new headline … of what rumor, what source is saying my husband's going to be traded [or whether he's] going to stay," she added. "I mean, every day it was something different."
Matthew and Kelly have four daughters together: twins Sawyer and Chandler, both 7, Hunter, 6, and Tyler, 4. Their happiness is a major factor in Kelly's relief, too.
"We have four girls and, I would say, if we didn't have those four girls [then] maybe the stress would have been a little less and I would have been like, 'OK, whatever,' but having those little girls, you have to try to plan ahead," she said. "With this situation, you can't really plan ahead."
She added that in the NFL, players obviously get traded a lot, "and these families are just having to pick up and move immediately, finding schools, finding activities for their kids, finding where to live and where to be that's close to the facility but also in a good area."
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