After Matthew Stafford's trade to the Los Angeles Rams last month, a report surfaced that he told the Detroit Lions that the only team he didn't want to join was the New England Patriots.
He addressed that report in an interview with Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press that ran Sunday. His version of his no-trade list tells a slightly different story.
Stafford declined to directly address if he made a specific request to avoid the Patriots. But he did clarify that he asked to be traded to a team that's built to contend for a championship — and that there were multiple teams that weren't on his list.