Wide receiver Puka Nacua is planned to return to the lineup for the Los Angeles Rams following their week eight bye.
Puka Nacua missed week seven with an ankle injury but is expected to be back on the field for the Los Angeles Rams as they come out of their bye. Nacua has fifty-four receptions for 616 yards and two touchdowns on the year.
When Nacua was out in week seven Davante Adams paced the Rams passing attack with five catches for thirty-five yards and three touchdowns. Nacua’s return is significant on its own but the Rams also placed wide receiver Tutu Atwell on injured reserve as well.
As long as there are no lingering effects from the ankle injury Nacua will return to his status as an elite wide receiver. Matthew Stafford remains one of the best quarterbacks in the league and should continue to keep Nacua and Adams as focal points in a potent passing attack.
Author: David Leonard Jr. (@RealDelcoDave)
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The Rams are losing speedster Tutu Atwell as is heading to the IR.
The Rams are losing some speed with Tutu Atwell heading to the IR due to a hamstring injury. While the focus of the Rams offense runs through Puka Nacua, Davante Adams, and Kyren Williams, it will be a blow from the fact that Atwell is able to stretch defenses.
Atwell’s best game came in Week 4 where he had 15.8 fantasy points and was the WR19 on the week. While this isn’t a huge hit for fantasy purposes, it will affect elements of real football in which Sean McVay and the Rams are trying to break away at the top of the NFC West. The Rams are currently tied with the Seahawks with a 5-2 record.
Author: Jeremiah Retzlaff (@coachretzlaff1)
Cooper Kupp is coming back home to play for the Seattle Seahawks.
Cooper Kupp is moving on from the Los Angeles Rams to play for the Seattle Seahawks. The free agent wideout has signed a deal with the Seahawks for 3 years and $45 million.
Much will be made about what impact this has on Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Njigba was the WR-9 in 2024. He logged 100 receptions, 1,130 receiving yards, and was No.12 in targets with 137. Cooper Kupp is at the stage where he is going to need to be moved around the formation with favorability towards the slot role. This poses a problem for JSN as he was No.1 in slot snaps last season with 701.
This is also a head-scratching move as Kupp will be 32 when the 2025 season starts. From an efficiency standpoint last season, Kupp was 60th in fantasy points per target at 1.75 and 65th in expected points added at +23.5. While Matthew Stafford can support multiple alpha weapons in Puka Nacua and Cooper Kupp with optimism towards Stafford supporting Nacua and Davante Adams in 2024, Sam Darnold does not inspire the same level of confidence in supporting both JSN and Cooper Kupp.
As this move is puzzling from a redundancy standpoint at the wide receiver position, it also brings questions about the stage in which the Seahawks are as far as team building towards being a winning team. Adding an aging, oft injured receiver who will be 32 is not ideal. The Rams have won the ‘sign a 32-year-old’ sweepstakes while the Seahawks are running in place.
The Rams and Seahawks are seemingly headed in different directions. While real NFL circumstances are to be noted, take advantage of any dip in JSN’s dynasty stock and best ball ADP by scooping him up anywhere you can!
Author: Jeremiah Retzlaff (@coachretzlaff1)
Wide Receiver Davante Adams has signed a 2 year deal worth $46 Million, $26 Million guaranteed with the Los Angeles Rams.
Legendary wide reciever Davante Adams was rumored to join quarterback Aaron Rodgers in LA with the Rams. That was when it seemed that Matthew Stafford was leaving the Rams. Stafford ended up signing an extension to stay in LA. Davante Adams makes it to LA without his long time quarterback, after signing a 2-year $46 million deal with $26 million guaranteed. The 32 year old will join recievers Puka Nacua and Tutu Atwell, with Cooper Kupp on the way out the door. Adams will step into the Kupp role and continue that connection with Stafford. This puts the Rams offense into the top 10 in the NFL. In 2024, Davante played 3 games for the Raiders and was traded to the Jets to play with Rodgers. In the next 11 games Adams would record 67 catches, 864 yards, and 7 touchdowns.
Adams still has the juice to be a productive reciever as he finished 2024 as WR-11. He won’t have to be the focal point of the offense with Nacua in the line up. The Rams offense should be explosive with Stafford’s arm talent throwing to both Adams and Nacua, with the run game included with Kyren Williams. As long as the team stays healthy the Rams will have two top ten wide receivers along with a top ten quarterback. Every Rams offensive player should be acquired in every format of fantasy.
Author: Jesse Baldwin (@J_Baldwin51)
Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers wants to head to the Los Angeles Rams along with wide receiver Davante Adams.
Aaron Rodgers has stated he wants to play for the Los Angeles Rams and he wants wide receiver Davante Adams to follow him there. After two unsuccessful seasons in New York, the Jets informed the HOF quarterback they are moving on. Rodgers clearly wants to end his career on better terms and he believes he can accomplish that in LA. Rodgers first season with the Jets was short lived as he tore his Achilles four snaps in. He bounced back last season with 3,897 passing yards with 28 TDs and 11 INTs. These are stats that any quarterback would like to have but the team finished with a 5-12 record. Rodgers has always been an enigma whether that is with his world views or his treatment of teammates, that said, there is no doubt he is a Hall of Fame quarterback.
If Rodgers makes his way into Sean McVay’s offense, will he be able to accept the way his head coach wants to play. Towards the end of his years in Green Bay, Rodgers conflicted with then new head coach Matt LaFleur for a couple of seasons before winning multiple MVPs. Rodgers will be 41 years old this season, he doesn’t have multiple seasons to get comfortable with McVay, even though McVay and LaFleur run similar offenses. The question is, do the Rams even want Rodgers? They still have Matthew Stafford under contract at the moment. Rodgers finished as QB-15 in 2024, he could potentially be in the top 10 in LA.
Author: Jesse Baldwin (@J_Baldwin51)
The New York Jets have made a splash trade, acquiring star Wide Receiver Davante Adams from the Raiders, in exchange for a conditional 3rd round pick. Rodgers and Adams are reunited after spending 8 years in Green Bay together.
The saga is finally over. Davante Adams has a new home in the New York Jets, reuniting with his former Green Bay Quarterback Aaron Rodgers. This is fantastic news for Adams, who has seemingly languished on the Las Vegas roster for the last season and a half without Derek Carr. The news comes just a day after the Jets lost to the division rival Bills, in a game where the offense did look much improved with the demotion of Nate Hackett. Adams has been dealing with a hamstring injury since Week 3, but look for that to miraculously heal at the sight of his new jersey.
The fantasy impact is that Adams should be able to reignite his top-10 status with Rodgers, but it might take a game or two to get back on the same page. Regarding the other options on the Jets roster, Garrett Wilson has had two back-to-back break-out weeks. He goes from being the #1 in the Offense to the WR2, which should fit his style better, as only Allen Lazard was the second option behind him. Speaking of Lazard, we could only hope that it makes him more irrelevant for fantasy, but his familiarity with Rodgers has allowed him to score some improbable catches of late (see the Hail Mary at the end of the half Monday night for proof).
All in all, this is a boost for the moribund offense that was stuck in the mud for the last two games. They are moving in the right direction with Todd Downing, and this addition might be the one that puts them over the top.
Jason Brown | @numba1punna
