More details are emerging about the Detroit Lions’ process of trading Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams and the other teams involved in talks. Albert Breer, who ran through some of Detroit’s most prominent offers on Monday, provided even more detail later in the week.
According to Breer, there was one other team that nearly got Stafford over the Rams: the Carolina Panthers. Negotiations had gotten so close to being consummated that the Panthers were in the process of getting Stafford’s medical reports in order—one of the final processes of a trade.