Will the Los Angeles Rams open the 2025 season with a clone of Matthew Stafford playing the quarterback position? Did the Super Bowl champion quarterback die several weeks ago, only to be replaced with a duplicate? The very idea sounds insane.
That’s because it is.
Except that apparently the people who believe everything they read on social media are convinced that the conspiracy theory is true, and that Stafford â the real one â is, in fact, dead.
The online Stafford death rumor, complete with its very own hashtag, #StaffordDiedWeeksAgo, has received so much traction that Stafford’s wife of 10 years, and college sweetheart, the former Kelly Hall, felt compelled to respond on her own Instagram account.
Facts Behind the Theory
How did things get to this point?
Stafford, the No. 1 overall draft pick in 2009 who was traded by the team that took him, the Detroit Lions, to the Rams in 2021, led Los Angeles to the second Super Bowl championship in franchise history in his first season with the team.
Three years and two playoff appearances later, with the 16-year veteran Stafford about to enter his age 37 season, the Rams gave the two-time Pro Bowl quarterback a new contract that could keep him under center at SoFi Stadium through the 2026 season, at a price of $84 million.
The Machine That Helped Stafford
But there are some problems to be expected from a quarterback who’s pushing 40, the main one being injuries. And that is what has happened to Stafford this preseason. A back problem, of which Stafford declined to give specifics, kept him out of the first four weeks of practices.
While that had to be frustrating for Rams fans, there’s nothing highly unusual about it.
What did seem unusual, at least to conspiracy-minded fans online, was the arrival at Rams training camp of a truck equipped with a mobile “Ammortal” machine.
What’s that? An Ammortal is described as “a new wellness product thatâs seeing early interest from NFL and MLB teams, as well as some of the worldâs top hospitality properties.”
An athlete enters the machine and receives treatments, all in one sitting, in several different supposed “healing” techniques, including “red light therapy, pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF), vibroacoustic sound therapy and molecular hydrogen.”
Whatever that all means, it appears to have worked for Stafford, who returned to practice with, according to Rams coach Sean McVay, “no restrictions” and “playing at a high level” earlier this week.
Or did he?
Fans Online Cry ‘Clone!’
“Obvious clone,” wrote one “fan” on X (formerly Twitter) over a photo a Stafford at practice with the team â adding the #StaffordDiedWeeksAgo hashtag, as well as the hashtag #HeNeverLeftTheChamber â seeming to imply that the Ammortal chamber was not simply a healing machine, but an instant cloning device.
It should be added here, that’s not how cloning works.
How serious were people about this inasnity? That’s difficult to say. Probably not very, but these days, who knows?
Kelly Stafford Checks In to ‘Clone’ Debate
But what is certain is that Kelly Stafford â a former Georgia cheerleader who began dating the team’s starting quarterback in their undergrad Bulldog days, until she and Stafford married in 2015 â gave her own sarcastic response on her Instagram account.
â’I knew there was something different about himâ¦.that @ammortal_official is wild,’â she wrote via her Instagram Story on Thursday, August 21, over a screenshot of the article,” according to a report by US Magazine. She tagged the Ammortal company in the post.
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