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After Lions agreed to trade Matthew Stafford for the Rams for Jared Goff and three choices in the draft, Stafford reached out to Goff to wish him well in Detroit.
Stafford told Mitch Albom that he has a high regard for Goff and hopes to succeed in Detroit.
“I texted him. We send a small message. I just told him that I know I will have to occupy an important place, ”said Stafford. “It didn’t go unnoticed that he was in the Super Bowl just a few years ago. He’s a very good player in his own right. I just wanted him to know that I appreciate him as a player and, obviously, to contact me if there was anything he needed when it came to Detroit, just about advice or places to stay, anything. I know he feels he can reach me, and I know that I can reach him with anything in LA too. So it’s been good. “
Stafford will officially become a Ram, and Goff will officially become a Lion when the league’s new year begins on March 17.