{"id":748561,"date":"2026-04-23T23:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/748561\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:24:19","slug":"sean-mcvay-we-hope-jimmy-garoppolo-has-change-of-heart-will-consider-drafting-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/748561\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McVay: We hope Jimmy Garoppolo has “change of heart”, will consider drafting QB"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rams are leaving the door open for both Jimmy Garoppolo and the possibility of adding a rookie quarterback in the draft. <\/p>\n

Garoppolo is considering retirement and McVay said at a press conference earlier this week that the team doesn\u2019t want to press him<\/a> for a decision about returning for a third season at this point. He reiterated that during an appearance on ESPN Los Angeles ahead of Thursday\u2019s first round and also said that the team has done the necessary research to be in position to draft a quarterback if things break that way over the next three days. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe do our work on all these positions<\/a>,\u201d McVay said. \u201cWhether you\u2019re saying it\u2019s a [Fernando] Mendoza, it\u2019s a Ty Simpson, it\u2019s a [Garrett] Nussmeier, it\u2019s Carson Beck, there are a lot of guys that are going to be good players in this draft and if we feel like it fits for us, you consider it. But we are still hopeful and optimistic that you give Jimmy his time, maybe he\u2019ll have a change of heart. I think the best thing you can do \u2014 you never want to force somebody to do something. He\u2019s earned the right to be able to walk away on his terms and it\u2019s been an amazing career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stetson Bennett is currently the only quarterback on the roster behind Matthew Stafford and Stafford\u2019s not guaranteed to be playing beyond 2026, so adding a rookie quarterback would make sense whether Garoppolo wants to come back or not. Should that move come early in the draft, it might be an indication that the Rams don\u2019t think there\u2019s a high likelihood of that change of heart coming to pass. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams are leaving the door open for both Jimmy Garoppolo and the possibility of adding a rookie…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":748562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-748561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116456604776958385","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}