Nick Wright floats blockbuster Matthew Stafford to Dolphins trade proposal amid Rams QB's uncertain future

The Los Angeles Rams were knocked out of the NFL Playoffs in a Divisional Round showdown against the Philadelphia Eagles but that wasn't even the worst of it for Rams fans. After the game, Matthew Stafford ignited speculation that he could be looking to call time on his career, prompting a debate over which way the Rams should go in the 2025 NFL season.

In 2021, the Rams swung a blockbuster trade to bring Stafford in from Detroit. The deal involved the Lions sending Stafford to the City of Angels with Jared Goff and two first-round picks along with a third-round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. At the time, Stafford was seen as a cerebral quarterback who needed an offensive genius to unlock his full potential. Enter Sean McVay, who saw to it that Stafford hit his ceiling by beating Joe Burrow's Cincinnati Bengals at Super Bowl LVI.

Now, with trade speculation surrounding Stafford, NFL analyst Nick Wright believes the Rams QB should stave off retirement for one more shot at glory. On Tuesday's episode of First Things First, Wright tried to solve two problems in one fell swoop.

"I have one, one-for-one quarterback trade that I would put a phone call in on. I might call Miami and say Stafford for Tua," Wright proposed on FS1's First Things First.

"If you're thinking about, we need to get younger at the position and probably draft a guy. But we don't want to just immediately spin that roulette wheel. If McVay is like, 'Man, I can do better with Tua than Mike McDaniel did.' And if the Dolphins are like, 'Man, we've got maybe one more year before Tyreek burns the building down. Like we're trying to win right now, we have all these weapons.'

"If you're Miami, they would be admitting defeat on Tua and just trying to go for it right now."

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What Matthew Stafford's contract situation looks like in 2025

Stafford signed a four-year contract extension with the Rams in 2022 in a deal that would pay him $160 million in all. As things stand, he still has two years left on that deal.

However, a quirk of that deal which would make retirement easier for both him and the Rams is the fact that he just has $4 million guaranteed in 2025. That figure would leave room for an amicable parting of ways should Stafford decide to ride off into the sunset.