{"id":288066,"date":"2023-09-18T13:04:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=288066"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:04:32","slug":"stud-rookie-puka-nacua-sets-record-with-15-catch-performance-in-rams-loss-to-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/nfl\/stud-rookie-puka-nacua-sets-record-with-15-catch-performance-in-rams-loss-to-49ers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x27;Stud&#x27; rookie Puka Nacua sets record with 15-catch performance in Rams&#x27; loss to 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth-round picks aren&#8217;t supposed to do in the first two games of their careers what \ufeffPuka Nacua\ufeff has done to NFL defenses.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Rams receiver has sprinted out of the gate, catching a league-high 25 passes for 266 yards in the first two weeks of the season. In Sunday&#8217;s 30-23 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, the rookie went for 15 catches on 20 targets for 147 yards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a stud,&#8221; Rams coach Sean McVay said, via Sarah Barshop of ESPN. &#8220;The game makes sense to him. Physically and mentally tough. Works really hard. He&#8217;s very inquisitive. He asks a lot of questions, and he&#8217;s got great guys to be able to lean on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His rapport with Matthew [Stafford], where they&#8217;re able to bounce things off of one another, I think that&#8217;s been a real positive, and Puka&#8217;s going to continue to improve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>          <span>            Related Links          <\/span>        <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>              2023 NFL season, Week 2: What We Learned from Sunday&#x27;s games            <\/li>\n<li>              NFL stats and records, Week 2: Colts&#x27; Anthony Richardson in elite company; Bills&#x27; Josh Allen back on track            <\/li>\n<li>              Week 2 NFL picks: Who wins Saints-Panthers, Browns-Steelers on Monday night?            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nacua spent the first two weeks of his rookie season breaking records.<\/p>\n<p>His 15 catches Sunday were the most in a game by a rookie. His 25 total catches are the most by a rookie through two games in NFL history and the most by any rookie in any two-game span (Odell Beckham Jr. had 23 over two December games in 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Nacua became the fifth player &#8212; and first rookie &#8212; in the Super Bowl era with 10-plus receptions and 100-plus receiving yards in each of his team&#8217;s first two games in a season &#8212; \ufeffCooper Kupp\ufeff (2022), Miles Austin (2010), Isaac Bruce (1998) and Andre Rison (1994).<\/p>\n<p>The rookie, however, wished he&#8217;d been setting records in a victory, not a close defeat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not really aware of kind of what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; Nacua said. &#8220;But my success will come when the team wins, so I&#8217;m excited for us to be able to come back and capitalize when we are able to win. So it was sweet last week. I got things to improve on, so it&#8217;s cool and all, but the most important thing is getting that W.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stafford isn&#8217;t afraid to force-feed receivers he trusts to make plays &#8212; we&#8217;ve seen it throughout his career with the likes of Calvin Johnson, Kupp, etc. The surprising aspect is that the veteran QB has quickly gained a rapport with a fifth-round rookie. But as long as Nacua keeps paying off that trust, Stafford is sure to keep slinging it his way.<\/p>\n<p>The question will be how the targets shake out when Kupp returns from injury. They&#8217;re likely to diminish somewhat, but Puka has proven he has lasting potential in McVay&#8217;s offense.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/stud-rookie-puka-nacua-sets-record-15-catch-performance-rams-loss-49ers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth-round picks aren&#8217;t supposed to do in the first two games of their careers what \ufeffPuka Nacua\ufeff has done to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#x27;Stud&#x27; rookie Puka Nacua sets record with 15-catch performance in Rams&#x27; loss to 49ers - Sports Love Me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/nfl\/stud-rookie-puka-nacua-sets-record-with-15-catch-performance-in-rams-loss-to-49ers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#x27;Stud&#x27; 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