Matthew Stafford Is One Loss From the Worst Record No QB Wants
The 2-4 Rams' fall from Super Bowl favorite has Stafford at 122 career losses — one shy of tying Vinny Testaverde's all-time mark.
Reigning MVP in a down year — don't panic, the volume's still there.
- Stafford sits at 122 career losses, 1 behind Testaverde
- Rams are 2-4 after opening as Super Bowl favorites
- Stafford was voted 2025 NFL MVP, his first ever
- Only 15 QBs ever have both a Super Bowl win and MVP
- Mayfield (58-65) is the best bet to eventually top him
The Rams came into 2026 as the consensus Super Bowl favorite. Six weeks in, they're 2-4, flirting with missing the playoffs entirely, and Matthew Stafford is about to pick up a dubious piece of history. At 122 career losses, the 38-year-old sits exactly one behind Vinny Testaverde — meaning a Sunday defeat ties him for the most losses by any quarterback in NFL history.
Two more losses, which feels inevitable given how this season has gone, and Stafford owns the record outright. Weirdly, that's a backhanded compliment. You don't lose 122 games unless you're good enough to keep starting for 17 years — and Stafford has been the No. 1 overall pick (2009), a Super Bowl LVI champion, and as of 2025, a first-time league MVP.
He's in decent company near the top of the list. Two of the five quarterbacks with the most career losses, Drew Brees and Brett Favre, are already in Canton. Stafford's résumé is arguably better than longevity-padded loss totals suggest: he's one of just 15 QBs ever to pair a Super Bowl ring with an MVP, and 13 of the previous 14 are either enshrined or on their way.
Who Could Ever Catch Him
Short answer: almost nobody. The only active QBs with 90-plus losses are Aaron Rodgers (95), who's said he'll retire after this year, and Joe Flacco (94), who isn't a locked-in starter. Andy Dalton (83) and Kirk Cousins (80) are both effectively out of the race. Baker Mayfield, 31 and sitting at 58-65, is the lone realistic threat — and he'd need roughly seven more full seasons to get there.
The Fantasy Angle
Here's the part that matters for your lineup: losing records and fantasy relevance are not the same thing. A reigning MVP on a pass-happy team that's trailing in games is a volume machine. Garbage-time passing props up fantasy lines even when the scoreboard looks ugly, and Stafford's attempts should stay elevated if the Rams keep playing from behind.
Don't read the headline and bail. HOLD Stafford as a back-end QB1 — the record is a longevity footnote, not a talent decline. If anything, a bad team script often inflates a quarterback's fantasy ceiling. For context on the names around him, Rodgers is our #13 QB with 109 PPR points through six games this season (2026), and Flacco posted 149 PPR points across 13 games last season (2025) before cooling off. Stafford's trajectory still points up on a weekly basis.
