Los Angeles Rams huge receiver Cooper Kupp suffered a setback in his go back from a hamstring shock and is day by day, schoolmaster Sean McVay mentioned Thursday.
“I think we just take it a day at a time right now,” McVay mentioned. “We want to be able to get him back right. We’re obviously a much better team when he’s available.”
Kupp, who to begin with suffered the shock Aug. 1, returned to practices with the Rams simply closing generation, announcing he felt he would be ready for the workforce’s regular-season opener in opposition to the Seattle Seahawks on Sept. 10.
McVay, when pressed on Kupp’s availability for the opener, remained noncommittal Thursday.
“There’s a difference between return to play and return to performance,” McVay mentioned. “We want return to performance for Cooper Kupp. We know how special a player, special of a person, and so we want to make sure we are smart with that and getting him back to feeling like the Cooper Kupp we all know and that he’s able to play the way that he’s capable of, whenever that is. Whether that is Sept. 10th or not, we’ll continue to monitor that and control what we can control.”
Kupp, the MVP of Tremendous Bowl LVI, neglected the overall 8 video games of 2022 with a prime ankle sprain, completing with 75 catches for 812 yards and 6 touchdowns.
A occasion previous, he gained the NFL’s triple crown of receiving, chief the league in catches (145), receiving yards (1,947) and touchdowns (16).
