Team news: Los Angeles Rams

Rams WR Puka Nacua and RT Rob Havenstein are OUT for Sunday’s game against the Jaguars.

Everyone else is good to go.

Related Players: Davante Adams, Tutu Atwell, Jordan Whittington

This pushes Adams into fringe WR1 territory. Whittington and Atwell will be the most likely beneficiaries as secondary options, with the former offering a higher floor as a WR4 option.

For a second straight day today, Rams WR Puka Nacua didn’t practice due to his ankle injury.

Related Players: Davante Adams, Jordan Whittington, Tutu Atwell

Nacua seems like a stretch to play Week 7, which pushes Adams into fringe WR1 territory. Whittington and Atwell will be the most likely beneficiaries as secondary options, with the former offering a higher floor as a WR4 option.

Rams WR Puka Nacua didn’t practice today due to his ankle injury.

Related Players: Davante Adams, Jordan Whittington, Tutu Atwell

Nacua seems like a stretch to play Week 7, which pushes Adams into fringe WR1 territory. Whittington and Atwell will be the most likely beneficiaries as secondary options, with the former offering a higher floor as a WR4 option.

Rams WR Puka Nacua, the NFL’s leader in catches, suffered an ankle sprain that will likely cause him to miss time, per me and Mike Garafolo.

Related players: Davante Adams, Tutu Atwell, Jordan Whittington, Konata Mumpfield, Tyler Higbee, Matthew Stafford

Rapoport went on to speculate that it would make sense for Nacua to be out next week against the Jaguars, then the Rams a bye in Week 8, which would allow Nacua to regroup and further assess his injury. It's possible Nacua could be back for Week 10 if this is what the Rams opt to do. Nacua will be missed in fantasy lineups no matter how long he's out. Adams would be the clear WR1 but it could mean more looks for Atwell and Whittington. TE Higbee and the running backs could pick up the slack as well. In an update to this story, Nacua is considered day to day by the team, which does give him a chance to play in Week 7.

Rams head coach Sean McVay told reporters after Sunday’s win that WR Puka Nacua has an ankle injury and he is uncertain if Nacua will be able to play next week in London against the Jaguars.

Nacua did return to the game but was mostly a decoy. He finished with just two catches for 28 yards in the 17-3 win. The Rams have their bye in Week 8, so it’s not out of the question for the Rams to sit Nacua next week and give him an extra week to recover.

Rams coach Sean McVay told reporters WR Davante Adams (hamstring) will be limited in practice and listed as questionable, but McVay feels good about Adams being able to go vs. the Colts.

Related Players: Puka Nacua, Jordan Whittington, Tutu Atwell

It's hard to imagine Nacua's target share getting much higher if Adams missed, but he's a locked-in WR1 option as it is, so no change there. Adams should be fired up as a WR2 unless we hear of a setback.

The Rams ultimately lost a heartbreaking game against the Eagles in which they had a double-digit lead and had two kicks blocked, but the silver lining is that their offense looks like an elite unit with room to get even better. When Matthew Stafford got traded to the Rams in 2021, Sean McVay started to shift from the under-center, compressed formations, run-heavy offense that he ran with Jared Goff. The offense became more spread out, used shotgun and pistol more, and passed at a higher rate because it had Stafford. The offense started to shift back last season to McVay’s original approach, going under center on 45 percent of plays, which ranked second only to the Detroit Lions.

So far, this season, they’ve shifted even more in that direction, going under center on 65 percent of snaps.

Related players: Kyren Williams, Puka Nacua, Davante Adams

Part of the reason for this shift is in direct response to Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, who has influenced the league’s 2-high meta, the story explained. The trend of keeping two safeties deep to stop explosives left them vulnerable upfront, so McVay countered with more under-center, gap-scheme runs and using more play action when throwing. The story said despite the loss, the scheme worked as intended against Fangio’s defense. The Rams had the second-highest success rate that any offense has had against Fangio’s Eagles defense (54.8 percent) and ran for the third-most yards against them as well, the story went on to say.

Matthew Stafford is expected to start against the Texans, Sean McVay said.

Great news for Stafford and his fantasy owners. Hopefully his back issues are a thing of the past but it will be worth watching once Stafford starts to take a few hits. We already know it was reported his back will need to be managed this season.

Head coach Sean McVay told reporters in his Monday press conference that Matthew Stafford is on track to start the Week 1 matchup against the Texans.

“I can’t see into the future, but if you look at what the last week has entailed, feel really good,” McVay said, via Gary Klein of the L.A. Times. “There’s nothing that would leave me to believe, unless we have an unforeseen setback, that he’s not going to be ready to roll against the Texans.”

Stafford was able to practice again today. Of course, Stafford has been dealing with a disc injury in his back that kept him out of practice for the first few weeks of training camp. He returned to the field last week and was able to fully participate in the sessions, the story pointed out.

QB Matthew Stafford (back) is taking 11 on 11 reps again today.

The daily Stafford watch continues with his owners holding their breath he's at least able to start Week 1. It's obviously good news - for the Rams, his fantasy owners and those owning fantasy stock in anyone on the Rams offense - any day we get this kind of alert.