WR Cooper Kupp is expected to play against the Eagles barring any setbacks, per sources. The Rams are being cautious, keeping him on a count at practice. I'm told he's felt good enough to extend for the football, even making a one-handed grab.

Related Players: Puka Nacua, Tutu Atwell

Kupp has been back at practice this week and figures to be playing a majority of snaps in Week 5. After how well Nacua has performed, we should still keep him on fantasy radars, while Atwell will be a very difficult player to start as the WR3 behind two target hogs.

WR Cooper Kupp is pushing to play against the Eagles. The Rams, of course, want to use Kupp on those deep over routes and will test it out to see if he can get close to max speed. The better news is I'm told the injury was not as serious (in terms of long term) as initially feared.

Related Players: Puka Nacua, Tutu Atwell

If the team is concerned about how he can run specific routes, this still feels early, but Kupp has surprised us before. It would be hard to keep him on the bench if he is active, but this will assuredly cut into Nacua's record-breaking pace as the best fantasy story of the young season.

Sean McVay said Cooper Kupp will start practicing next week, indicating the team will open the 21-day window to activate him off of IR.

It could still be a few weeks, but it's worth putting on your radar now, as his return will almost assuredly result in a huge dip in production for Puka Nacua and Tutu Atwell.

A game against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday is the last one that Rams star receiver Cooper Kupp is mandated to sit out because he is on injured reserve. But there is no guarantee that Kupp will return from his hamstring injury for the Oct. 8 game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Coach Sean McVay said Wednesday it is “the hope” that Kupp will play against the Eagles but stopped short of proclaiming it a done deal.

Related Players: Puka Nacua, Tutu Atwell, Van Jefferson

The 2021 NFL offensive player of the year suffered a season-ending ankle injury last year. Early in training camp, he suffered the hamstring injury that caused him to be placed on injured reserve.

It sounds as if the team will shoot for next week, but there is no guarantee on when he could return. Week 6 vs. the Arizona Cardinals feels the most likely.

The Rams had not just one, but two receivers with more than 100 receiving yards on Sunday. Tutu Atwell set career highs with six catches for 119 yards, and rookie fifth-round pick Puka Nacua’s 10 catches for 119 yards were the most receiving yards in a rookie debut in team history.

And although fourth-year receiver Van Jefferson finished with just four catches for 24 yards, McVay said after the game that the receiver “is going to continue to be a big part of this as well.” Unlike last season when Jefferson was out with a knee injury, where defenses knew Kupp was Stafford’s most likely target, the Rams had multiple successful options.

Related players: Cooper Kupp, Matthew Stafford

The story said the depth at WR is one reason the team has a chance to survive without Kupp in the lineup, for at least the next three weeks. Another reason is the health of QB Stafford, who ended up not throwing for a touchdown but did have over 300 yards passing in the surprise win over Seattle. Atwell and Nacua will likely be waiver wire targets this week in your league, and along with Jefferson, are certainly worth looks if you're in need at the WR position.

The Rams trailed 13-7 at halftime, but they scored the final 23 points of the game with wide receivers Tutu Atwell and Puka Nacua playing a major role. Each of them posted 119 receiving yards as part of a big return to action for quarterback Matthew Stafford and head coach Sean McVay showered both wideouts with praise in his postgame comments.

Related players: Cooper Kupp

Atwell and Nacua are probably most known around dynasty communities, especially Nacua who garnered some attention this offseason when he was being used in a similar way to Deebo Samuel, and getting touches out of the backfield as well. Both players will likely get some attention this week on waiver wires after their Week 1 performances. With Kupp out of action for at least three more weeks, Atwell and Nacua could continue to get targets and touches.

Rams are placing WR Cooper Kupp on injured reserve with a hamstring injury.

The injury concerns continue for the star wide receiver and now he will miss the first four games of the season. Head coach Sean McVay had said there was a chance this would happen. Now it has. This means he’ll miss games against the Seahawks, 49ers, Bengals and Colts, at least. Van Jefferson stands to be the beneficiary of Kupp’s absence, but this looks like the beginning of a long season for the Rams.

Rams coach Sean McVay says WR Cooper Kupp is out Sunday as he deals with his hamstring injury.

Related Players: Van Jefferson, Puka Nacua, Tutu Atwell

What's worse, there's no guarantee that Kupp will avoid IR. Truly miserable news for fantasy and the WR himself, but we power on. Van Jefferson is now a very interesting fantasy piece and could absolutely be in Flex consideration as soon as this week. Nucua is an interesting hold on deep rosters, but the team has already shown their hand regarding Atwell as a rotational player.

Kupp is an obvious hold in all formats, regardless of a league's IR slot being active or not.

The wait for word on the severity of Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp’s hamstring injury will last a little longer.

McVay said that the team still considers Kupp day-to-day with the season opener looming.

“If he’s able to go, that’s outstanding for us,” McVay said.

McVay also said that team wants Kupp to feel fully back to himself before he returns to game action and, given all of the question marks about his status, it’s hard to imagine that happening in time for the wideout to face the Seahawks. McVay said he expects to have a more detailed update on Kupp’s condition Wednesday.

Kupp went to Minnesota to see a specialist for the injury, which head coach Sean McVay termed a setback in his return from an earlier hamstring pull. At a Monday press conference, McVay said Kupp made the trip because the nature of the injury “doesn’t fall in alignment” with the expected recovery from a soft tissue injury and that the wideout is still meeting with the specialist in hopes of gaining “clarity” about what’s wrong.

Rams WR Cooper Kupp is in Minnesota Saturday to get further information on his hamstring injury,

Kupp suffered a setback this week on his hamstring injury that was originally suffered back on August 1. Head coach Sean McVay said Kupp is day to day and his status for Week 1 against the Seahawks is up in the air. It may even be slightly more likely at this point that the Rams hold Kupp out for Week 1 as a precautionary move to keep him healthy for the rest of the season. This all after Kupp missed eight games last season with a high ankle injury and hamstring injuries tend to linger more. We should get more info in the coming days on the status of Kupp.