Kupp having a season for the ages for playoff-minded Rams

To say Cooper Kupp is having a monster season would be gross understatement. It’s positively historic.

Indeed, the Los Angeles Rams’ fifth-year wide receiver has rolled up numbers through his first 10 games that place his 2021 campaign among the NFL’s all-time greats.

Through mid-November, the 6-feet-2-inch third round pick out of Eastern Washington was leading the league in the three major receiving categories – receptions with 85, yards with 1,141 and receiving touchdowns with 10. He was also about to eclipse his own personal full-season marks of 94, 1,161 and 10.

Were he to maintain this pace, he’d join only Hall of Famers Lance Alworth (1966) and Jerry Rice (1990) was well as Sterling Sharpe (1992) and Steve Smith (2005) as wideouts to pull off the receiving hat trick. And if he were to up his average of 114.1 yards per game over the remaining seven regular season games, he’d threaten the all-time single season mark of 1,964 yards set in 2012 by Calvin Johnson, also a Hall of Famer.

Of course, records are always nice but there is immediate, bigger business at hand. The Rams are fighting with the Arizona Cardinals for first place in the NFC West and a possible first round bye in the playoffs. W’s are increasingly important this time of year and Kupp and the Rams need to keep their eyes on the team prize if they want a shot at a Super Bowl run.

Kupp and the Rams can be seen in action Monday, Dec. 13, when they have a showdown on enemy turf with the Cardinals in a game airing on ESPN and ABC.