LOS ANGELES — Monday is a major day in figuring out Los Angeles Rams receiver Cooper Kupp’s restoration timeline, coach Sean McVay stated.
Kupp has not been placed on injured reserve whereas therapeutic from an ankle damage suffered in Week 2 at Arizona. The Rams returned from their Week 6 bye on Monday. And whereas Kupp shouldn’t be anticipated to apply that day, he’ll get a heavy exercise in with vp of sports activities drugs and efficiency Reggie Scott that can let the crew know whether or not Kupp can return to apply, after which to video games.
“There’s a risk that he may very well be prepared this week, there is also a risk that he may not be prepared,” McVay stated. “At this time is an enormous day for him.”
McVay added that the exercise partly will take a look at Kupp’s “game-like actions” and that the coaching employees will search suggestions from the veteran receiver as as to if he can “return to efficiency, not simply return to play.”
The Rams host the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, then the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday Night time Soccer. Each video games will likely be on synthetic turf, a taking part in floor Kupp has expressed his discomfort with up to now.
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“I can’t management that,” McVay stated. “That will in all probability be a (higher query) for him. It’s extra about, ‘All proper, the place is his ankle? Is it able to go, and is he able to be the Cooper Kupp we’re accustomed to seeing?’”
McVay stated beforehand that Week 7 was “all the time an optimistic goal date” for Kupp. The 31-year-old receiver has missed a number of weeks on account of accidents in every of the Rams’ final three seasons.
Because the bye week started, McVay talked about that quarterback Matthew Stafford was coping with again soreness stemming from the variety of hits he had taken (40, the third-most within the NFL by 5 video games). Monday, McVay stated Stafford’s again is “feeling actually good” and he isn’t anticipated to overlook any time.
Depth offensive lineman Joe Noteboom, who’s at present on injured reserve (ankle), might return to apply this week, McVay stated. No. 2 receiver Puka Nacua (knee) and beginning offensive lineman Steve Avila (knee) are on IR and never scheduled to return to apply this week.
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