Puka Nacua
Los Angeles RamsPuka Nacua has 56 catches, 565 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns in 6 games for the Los Angeles Rams this season through Week 8, 23.1 PPR points a game (updated November 6, 2026).
Model Score by season
Holding at 99.0.
How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →
STM Take
A record-setting receiver who owns the passing game.
The case for
- Career 95.3 receiving yards per game is the NFL all-time record; the efficiency case has no comparable in the field.
- 2025 NFL receptions leader and first-team All-Pro at age 24; the trajectory is still climbing.
The worry
- Pre-Stafford passing-game ceiling is the cap; if LA's QB room ages or injures out, the workload-driven floor is exposed.
- 5th-round pick origin still means the Rams hold leverage on extension talks; financial security is not yet locked in.
What to watch: Whether the 2025 first-team All-Pro repeats; back-to-back AP-1 voting would put him in the tier-of-one with Justin Jefferson and Ja'Marr Chase.
Full take and bio
Nacua at STTM #1 tier 1 in 2025 is the league's most efficient receiver by per-game production (career 95.3 yards per game is an NFL record). Three straight tier-1 finishes from a 5th-round pick and a 2025 first-team All-Pro confirm the rookie year wasn't a Sean McVay halo. The 313 career catches for 4,191 yards in three seasons puts him on pace to be a generational producer.
Nacua was born in Las Vegas to a Samoan-German mother and Hawaiian-Portuguese father, grew up in Provo, and holds the Utah state high school records for receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. He played at Washington for two years before transferring to BYU, and the Rams took him 177th overall in the 2023 NFL Draft. He set the NFL rookie records for receiving yards (1,486) and receptions, made two Pro Bowls, and was named first-team All-Pro in 2025 after leading the NFL in receptions. He owns the NFL record for career receiving yards per game at 95.3.
Comps
The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.
Plays like: Ja'Marr Chase, Cooper Kupp, Pierre Garcon. Built like: Grant DuBose, Keenan Allen, Terrace Marshall Jr.. Coming out: Cody Latimer, Damian Williams, Jakobi Meyers.
Of his 20 closest coming out: 1 star, 4 starters, 10 backups, 5 didn't stick.
Puka Nacua Props This Weekat WAS Sun Nov 8
| Market | Line | Over | Under |
|---|---|---|---|
| Receptions | 8.5 | +110 Bovada | -139 DraftKings |
| Receiving yards | 94.5 | -111 DraftKings | -113 DraftKings |
| Longest reception | 27.5 | -108 DraftKings | -120 DraftKings |
| Anytime TD | -118 BetMGM |
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Puka Nacua Injury StatusNot listed
Puka Nacua is not on the injury report as of Nov 6. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.
This season · 6 games
23.1 fantasy points a game, 139 PPR on the season. Every game on the Game Log, every season on Career. Advanced numbers are EPA and Next Gen Stats.
Contract2026 cap
Every year of the deal, the dead money and what a cut or trade saves on the Contract tab.
Fantasy outlookWeek 9
Our rest-of-season board has Puka Nacua at WR2; the model has 173 PPR points left for him this season; this week he visits WAS.
Price a trade for him on the fantasy trade calculator, or see the whole board on the Fantasy hub.
Draft & College
Round 5, pick 177 to the Los Angeles Rams in 2023, out of BYU (FBS Independents). He went about where consensus had him.
In college, 2021-2022, 19 games: 91 rec, 1,400 yds, 11 TD, 15.4 yds/rec.
Recruited
Class of 2019 · Receiver · High school: Orem, UT
His full list of offers is not on our record yet; offers for the 2019 class are still being added.