The Los Angeles Rams will likely be leaning closely on its offense when the 2024 season rolls round. Los Angeles managed to make a playoff run on the again of head coach Sean McVay’s revamped offensive scheme, but in addition due to the emergence of Puka Nacua.
Nacua, a fifth-round choose by the Rams within the 2023 NFL Draft, took the league by storm in his rookie 12 months.
He broke a number of rookie receiving information and is poised to play bigger function within the cross sport subsequent season. Nevertheless, he’ll have the proper working mate in Cooper Kupp who seems to be absolutely wholesome after coping with accidents final season.
Nacua’s been working with Kupp in the course of the offseason and divulges that he doesn’t assume he’s met his teammate’s expectations for him but, by way of Stu Jackson of TheRams.com:
“I really feel like I’m nonetheless attempting to achieve Coop’s expectations,” Nacua stated Monday after Day 1 of the Rams’ offseason program, referring to Cooper Kupp. “As a result of he set the usual for us within the extensive receiver room and for lots of receivers within the NFL. I imply, to be the triple-crown winner. I simply talked about it to him not too way back, I don’t know the way extensive receivers have gained a Tremendous Bowl MVP.
“The usual continues to be set very excessive, and I don’t assume I’m near reaching it.”
The second-year wideout additionally mentioned how robust a few of his coaching days with Kupp had been:
“His conditioning days had been among the harder ones,” Nacua stated. “I keep in mind the primary week I got here again, I believe I threw up each day of the week. He wasn’t a fan of that, as a result of it was on his garden and stuff. He was like, ‘you’re throwing up in my bushes Puka, thanks.’ But it surely was tremendous enjoyable, after which to return again in as we speak, it felt like I didn’t miss a beat. There was sort of an concept of, ‘Oh, I don’t know what I’m going to do for the offseason.’ However following Coop’s plan made it tremendous simple and centered me in the proper method.”
Pacua’s achieved effectively to get himself prepared for subsequent season and it’ll be enjoyable to see if he can construct on his historic rookie 12 months.
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