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Nacua breaks rookie records for yards, catches
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — With his third capture Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Rams wide collector Puka Nacua broke a 63-year-old record for the foremost accepting yards by a rookie in NFL history.
Nacua passed Charge Groman, who had 1,473 getting yards in a 14-game season in 1960. On the following play, Nacua caught his 105th pass, giving him the rookie record for gatherings in a season.
“It’ll say Puka Nacua [within the record books], but I wish it may say everyone,” Nacua said. “All 11 folks out there since it truly takes all 11. They ought to all feel that grant fair as much as I do because I couldn’t do it without the folks within the front and clearly [quarterbacks] Matthew [Stafford] and Carson [Wentz] out there. Everyone was included — it was sweet to feel myself, but the enjoyment from everyone made it more sweet.”
The capture came within the third quarter after Nacua to begin with tied the record with a 19-yard landing pass from quarterback Wentz on the Rams’ to begin with drive of the amusement. That TD capture gave the receiver 1,473 yards to tie Gorman’s record. Nacua wrapped up with four catches for 41 yards within the Rams’ 21-20 win.
The record came in a diversion in which the Rams held out numerous starters, counting Stafford, wide collector Cooper Kupp and running back Kyren Williams. Nacua likely would have been on that list had he not entered the amusement fair 29 yards bashful of breaking Groman’s record.
The Rams had three more drives within the to begin with half, but the 49ers held Nacua without a capture to end the half. After the game, coach Sean McVay said the difficulty the Rams had getting Nacua the ball for the rest of the primary half felt just “like the football divine beings telling me, ‘Man, typically not how you are doing it.'”
“I’ve accepted within the astuteness of the diversion and it was one of those bargains that you just need to allow him an opportunity to urge that since of what he put himself in a position for.
But once you begin getting exterior the system of working how you ordinarily would, it was nearly like they’re looking and saying, ‘Hey, you know what? You know better,'” McVay said. “And after that I thought that to begin with drive where [hostile facilitator] Mike [LaFleur] did a great work blending it up, the ball normally came to him.
“And after that the one to be able to urge the final capture record was a hell of a capture on a screen where he got vertical right absent. But I was truly satisfied with Carson. And credit the Niners — they had an understanding of what we were attempting to do, especially at the conclusion of the half. And they did a great work of anticipating that.”
Kyle Shanahan said the 49ers were “attempting our butts off to keep them from getting 1 more yard or one more completion to Puka so they would play him the entire diversion.” When inquired on the off chance that he would be frantic on the off chance that another group did that to him, Shanahan said, “No. I anticipate it.”
The coach said he wasn’t attempting to tire Nacua out, but included with a grin, “I fair needed them to go through the push that we’re going through.”
“You do not need to urge anyone hurt,” Shanahan said. “Those aren’t the foremost fun recreations for us. You’ve ought to do it but I do not think we’re progressing to conversation much around it another week.”
