Matthew Stafford’s season has already hit a rough patch, and now his wife Kelly Stafford is pointing to a very different kind of problem at home: sleep.
The Rams came into the 2026 season with plenty of confidence, but six games in, the offense still hasn’t found a rhythm. That uneven start spilled over into Sunday’s 18-16 upset loss to the Cardinals, where Stafford’s line looked fine on paper - 25-for-33 for 222 yards and two touchdowns - but the performance told another story.
The throws were short. The decisions were shaky.
It wasn’t the sharp, clean version of Stafford the Rams were counting on.
Kelly Stafford may have found at least one possible explanation for why the quarterback has been a little off, and it comes from her own side of the household. She told followers on Instagram that she has been dealing with insomnia, posting a nearly black image with the time stamp 3:04 a.m. and the caption, “Insomnia sucks,” she wrote.
She followed that up with a second post that was a little brighter. While going through old photos, she found a picture of Matthew holding their youngest daughter, Tyler, and shared it with a message that softened the late-night frustration. “But what doesn’t suck is what you find when you have insomnia,” Kelly wrote over the picture.
Kelly has spoken before about how much sleep matters in their marriage. In a 2025 interview with Forbes, she said, “Good sleep has helped our marriage,” and added that lack of sleep has brought arguments and irritability into the relationship.
For now, the Rams are still trying to settle things on the field, while Kelly is trying to get some rest off it.
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