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Rams coach Sean McVay is taking every precaution with Matthew Stafford and the quarterback’s hamstring issue. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Matthew Stafford stretched with teammates. During individual drills, he rolled out and threw passes with no outward sign of a balky hamstring.
Still, Rams coach Sean McVay took no chances Monday with his veteran quarterback.
Stafford took off his helmet, put a cap on and watched Jimmy Garoppolo and Stetson Bennett run the offense for the rest of practice.
With less than three weeks before the Sept. 8 opener at Detroit, McVay will err on the side of caution when it comes to his 36-year-old quarterback.
“My biggest thing was, wanted to be smart with him,” McVay said after a morning workout in Thousand Oaks. “If there was any sudden movement that set him back, just didn’t think it would be worth it.”
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Stafford wore a glove on his left hand because of a cut on his thumb, McVay said, but the 16th-year pro otherwise appeared ready to participate fully.
“Could he have practiced today? Probably so,” McVay said. “And he felt good enough in the movement that he had. … But those unscripted movements, where a guy beats a tackle or a guard and you have to just make a sudden little movement — if there was any chance that it could aggravate a tight hamstring, then we wanted to avoid that.”
The Rams will practice Tuesday and then depart Wednesday for Houston, where they will have a joint practice with the Texans on Thursday and a preseason game against them Saturday.
McVay declined to say whether Stafford would be a full participant in workouts Tuesday and Thursday.
“We will progress him as the week goes, but the goal in mind is making sure that we get a good couple weeks of preparation for the Detroit game,” McVay said.
Even if that means holding Stafford out of practice.
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Publish date : 2024-08-19 19:44:12
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