Operation Puka 101 began in an office down the hall from Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay, and a hard right from the quarterback meeting room that often holds the whiteboard sessions of Matthew Stafford and Cooper Kupp.
Early in the spring, Puka Nacua, now a front-runner for the 2023 Offensive Rookie of the Year award (alongside C.J. Stroud) and the record holder for most receptions and yards for a rookie in NFL history, sent a text to Jake Peetz, the Rams’ passing-game specialist.
“Hey, Coach, can I come in and go over some of these concepts before [our] special teams [meeting]?”