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Heading into the 2025 NFL calendar year, one of the biggest questions surrounding the NFC is the future of Matthew Stafford and his current franchise, the Los Angeles Rams.
One of the feel-good stories of the NFC West, who overcame mountains of early adversity to represent one of the toughest divisions in the NFL, the Rams came a fourth quarter completion by Stafford away from the NFC Championship game, where they would have been favorites to represent the conference in the Super Bowl.
On paper, the Rams could run it back and remain one of the better teams in the NFL, especially with even more reinforcements coming in free agency and the draft, but instead, Les Snead and company appear to be taking things in another direction, with Cooper Kupp set to be released if he isn’t traded and Stafford’s representatives being afforded a chance to gauge the market for a move.
While Stafford appears likely to return to LA one way or another, as it’s hard to see a clean fit for his services, regardless of how the 2025 season shakes out, the Rams will need to find their long-term replacement for the Georgia quarterback one way or another.
Could that come in the draft? Maybe so, but at pick 26 overall, they will be out of the range of Cam Ward, Shedeur Sanders, and potentially Jaxson Dart, who has been linked to the Pittsburgh Steelers by ESPN’s Field Yates over the past week or so. Maybe the Rams hit on QB4, be that Will Howard, Kyle McCord, Quinn Ewers, Jalen Milroe, or someone else, and land their long-term answer Jalen Hurts-style in the second round. But outside of signing a player like Daniel Jones or Zach Wilson and hoping they could become “the guy,” the Rams really don’t have a clear path to their next guy for when the Stafford Era comes to an end.
Enter Will Levis, the soon-to-be third-year quarterback who parlayed some great play at Kentucky into a second-round selection by the Tennessee Titans in 2023. With the Titans widely expected to either draft a new quarterback first overall or go in a different direction via free agency or a trade of their own, Levis could be available for a midround pick and may develop still into a certified gamer under one of the better offensive head coaches in the NFL.
Over his first two seasons in the NFL, Levis was more or less a meme quarterback.
He advertised mayonnaise, which he apparently puts in his coffee, made bizarre gestures in games, and backed up his built-for-social-media game with some of the strangest turnovers you’ll ever see, looking like a modern-day Mark Sanchez without the New York market to make him a star.
Factor in some less-than-impressive stats, recording 3,899 yards, 21 touchdowns, and 16 interceptions over his 21-game run in Nashville and a QB record of 5-16, and the idea of Levis becoming anything...
