{"id":65565,"date":"2026-02-06T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/matthew-stafford-wins-nfl-mvp-and-vows-to-return-to-rams-next-season\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:55:08","slug":"matthew-stafford-wins-nfl-mvp-and-vows-to-return-to-rams-next-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/matthew-stafford-wins-nfl-mvp-and-vows-to-return-to-rams-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford wins NFL MVP and vows to return to Rams next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>37-year-old pips New England\u2019s Drake Maye to award<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Myles Garrett is unanimous Defensive Player of Year<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Jaxon Smith-Njigba wins Offensive Player of Year<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Matthew Stafford walked away with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/nfl\">NFL<\/a>\u2019s Most Valuable Player award and a declaration that he will return to the Los Angeles Rams for another season.<\/p>\n<p> Stafford edged Drake Maye for the MVP award on Thursday night in the closest race since Peyton Manning and Steve McNair were co-winners in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford received 24 of 50 first-place votes while Maye got 23. But Maye has a chance to go home this week with a Vince Lombardi Trophy: he leads the New England Patriots against the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/05\/matthew-stafford-wins-nfl-mvp-and-vows-to-return-to-rams-next-season\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>37-year-old pips New England\u2019s Drake Maye to award Myles Garrett is unanimous Defensive Player of Year Jaxon Smith-Njigba wins Offensive Player of Year Matthew Stafford walked away with the NFL\u2019s Most Valuable Player award and a declaration that he will return to the Los Angeles Rams for another season. Stafford edged Drake Maye for the &#8230; <a title=\"Matthew Stafford wins NFL MVP and vows to return to Rams next season\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/matthew-stafford-wins-nfl-mvp-and-vows-to-return-to-rams-next-season\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Matthew Stafford wins NFL MVP and vows to return to Rams next season\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}