ESPN Aug 24, 2023, 8:00 p.m. Reading: 2 min.
In addition, the receiver announced that he will not play in the last preseason game
The star wide receiver of Los Angeles Rams, Cooper Coup, He said Thursday that he feels he will be ready to play Week 1 when his team visits the Seattle Seahawks.
“Yeah, I feel like I am,” Kupp said Thursday after a joint practice with the Denver Broncos when asked if he felt like he was on track to play the Seahawks on September 10.
Cooper Coup He was sidelined with a hamstring injury suffered on August 1, but returned to practice with the Rams this week.
Cooper Kupp during training sessions for the Los Angeles Rams heading into the 2023 NFL season.AP
Kupp said the replays in practice this week have been invaluable in preparing him for the start of the regular season.
“I definitely felt like the first two days, coming back here earlier this week, I felt like I was rushing things,” Kupp said. “You feel like your hands and feet aren’t working together … you want to see the patterns of the defense, just feel like you’re mentally behind the play, which is never where you want to be. You want to be ahead of it. to play fast.
“But man, the importance of having practice and being able to be out there and see things live and do those reps and feel them from day one, two, three and four… the game just progressively slows down.
“That’s why I say it would have been difficult to go into Week 1 without having replays and that kind of thing. So, [yo] I feel good about the path we’re taking now.”
Cooper Coup noted that he does not plan to play on Saturday when the Rams play against them Broncos in his last preseason game.
“I don’t plan on playing Saturday. If it was a (regular) game, yes. ‘Game one, I’m playing.'”
Kupp, the Super Bowl LVI MVP, missed the last eight games of 2022 with a sprained ankle and finished with 75 receptions for 812 yards and six touchdowns.
A year earlier, he had won the triple crown of receptions in the NFL: receptions (145), yards (1,947) and touchdowns (16). He starred in the Rams’ playoff effort, which culminated in two touchdown receptions in the Super Bowl, including the winner with 1:25 left.
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