Detroit Lions share Matthew Stafford at the Los Angeles Rams for Jared Goff, choose sources, sources say

Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford is heading to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for quarterback Jared Goff and a plethora of selection projects, sources told Adam Schefter of ESPN on Saturday night.

The Lions will receive a selection in the third round in 2021, an election in the first round in 2022 and an election in the first round in 2023 in what is the first exchange of former general elections no. 1 in the era of the common project (since 1967). The agreement cannot be formalized until the beginning of the new year of the league, on March 17.

Following trade news, Rams’ odds for the Super Bowl for the 2021 season have shifted from +1800 to +1500 at Caesars Sportsbook by William Hill.

It’s the first big move by the new Lions general manager, Brad Holmes, who was hired earlier this month from the Rams, for which he was the college’s research director. This was Holmes’ role when the Rams changed from selection no. 15 to take Goff first overall in the 2016 NFL draft, making a change in their return to Los Angeles after 21 seasons in St. Louis. Louis. Rams will not make another selection in the first round until at least 2024.

A source told ESPN that the Lions had interest from seven or eight teams offering first-round selections as compensation for Stafford. Although the deal for Goff won’t necessarily stop the Lions from taking on a defender in this year’s draft, Goff told ESPN’s Jeff Darlington on Saturday night that he spoke with new Lions coach Dan Campbell and that Campbell made it clear through his message. that Goff is in Leo’s plans for the future.

When asked after Detroit’s last game of the 2020 season if he thought it was his last game with the Lions, Stafford said he did not want to get into hypothetical situations. Shortly after the season ended, Stafford went to Lions team president Rod Wood and mentioned that a deal could be the best for both sides.

Stafford, 32, will leave Detroit as the team leader in all categories. He is number 16 all-time in passing NFLs (45,109) and touchdown passes (282), number 18 in tries (6,224) and number 14 in completions (3,898). His pass rating of 89.9 is the number 21 of all time, and his 144 interceptions are related to the number 66 of all time with Joe Flacco and Steve Bartkowski.

Stafford is 4th all the time (273.4), behind Patrick Mahomes, Drew Brees and Andrew Luck. He is also the second all-time behind Luck in in-game attempts (37.7) and is fourth in the play-offs (23.6) behind Brees, Mahomes and Matt Ryan.

Stafford entered the league as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2009 Georgia draft and immediately became the Detroit starter. Injuries, including a separate shoulder, prevented him from his first two seasons in the NFL, but he began playing all but eight games with Detroit since the start of the 2011 season.

When he had to miss the last eight games of the 2019 season due to a fractured backbone, it ended a series of 136 consecutive starts – currently the sixth longest series of consecutive starts for a quarterback in history NFL.

Stafford has faced a multitude of ailments over the years, including injuries to his ribs, ankles and thumb last season. He also played in 2018 with back fractures and a proximal dislocation of the interphalangeal joint of the middle finger of the hand thrown in 2016, among others.

Although the Lions never won the NFC North with Stafford as their defender, he has kept them largely competitive over the past decade, being the team’s first pick since Detroit’s 0-16 season in 2008. Stafford has spent eight seasons of 4,000 or more. many meters and Season of 5,038 yards in 2011, when he threw 41 career touchdowns. Stafford threw at least 20 touchdowns each full season of his career – and at least 10 interceptions.

Stafford has won just five of 16 matches against his new opponent in the NFC West division. Meanwhile, Goff won four of six against NFC North.

Goff, who turned 26 in October, leaves LA after five seasons, including four under Rams coach Sean McVay, and a 42-27 record. He made seven winless starts as former coach Jeff Fisher before the Rams hired McVay, who was known for his offensive understanding and ability to develop defenders. McVay and Goff flourished in the first two seasons together, winning back-to-back division titles and an NFC championship.

The Rams gave Goff a four-year extension of $ 134 million, guaranteed by $ 110 million after leading the Rams to a Super Bowl LIII appearance. However, the offense never came out the same after a 13-3 loss to the New England Patriots in that Super Bowl, as the Rams fell from a team with the most scores to an average drive in the past two seasons.

The problems between Goff and McVay became apparent during the 2020 season, despite a 10-6 record. After a 23-20 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in Week 12, McVay publicly called the defender for three turnovers and called for the problem to be improved. For the past two seasons, Goff has ranked second in the NFL with 38 turnovers.

McVay chose to start John Wolford, a free backup agent, in a playoff game at the Seattle Seahawks, despite Goff telling his coach that he would be ready to play 12 days away from thumb surgery . Wolford was forced to leave that competition in the first quarter due to a neck injury, and Goff, the only reserve available, went for 155 yards and a touchdown in the 30-20 victory. After the match, Goff expressed his disappointment that he did not start.

A week later, in a divisional playoff at the Green Bay Packers, McVay was forced to start Goff with Wolford out of the game because of a neck injury. Goff went for 174 yards and a touchdown in a 32-18 loss.

After the Packers, when asked if Goff was his defender, McVay said, “Yes, he is our defender, right now.”

Earlier this week, Rams general manager Les Snead did not offer Goff’s vote of confidence to the public when asked several times about the Rams defender’s future.

“Going from Jared Goff, that’s … the money I invested in him, it’s not easy to get over,” said Snead, who later added that “anything can be done” in a system based on the lid.