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Ex-Detroit Lions QB Matthew Stafford gets four-year contract extension from LA Rams

A little more than a month after he led the Los Angeles Rams to victory in the Super Bowl, quarterback Matthew Stafford has cashed in.

The 14th-year veteran and the Rams agreed on Saturday to a four-year contract extension that will pay him $160 million, with $135 million of it fully guaranteed.

The agreement should allow Stafford, 33, to close out his career with the Rams.

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After 12 years in Detroit, where the Lions drafted him first overall out of Georgia in 2009, Stafford received permission to seek a trade last offseason.