Cooper Kupp Healthy Debut Planned: Can WR Help Los Angeles Rams Upset Eagles?

Cooper Kupp Healthy Debut Planned: Can WR Help Los Angeles Rams Upset Eagles?

The Los Angeles Rams have a plan for All-Pro wide receiver Cooper Kupp, who will make his return to the field this weekend just in time to take on the undefeated Philadelphia Eagles.

But we will argue that amid the optimism must come one more hurdle: The idea that Kupp might “proceed with caution” here - as some have suggested - is to us an odd one.

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In short: Kupp - who has been sidelined since the start of training camp with a hamstring injury and has therefore not yet made his 2023 debut - is either healthy enough to play …

Or he is not healthy enough to play. And if the Rams, medical team in any way suspects the latter?

Kupp should be held back to watch Puka Nacua (a revaluation with his 39 catches for 501 yards and a touchdown) and company continue to fill in … maybe for one more week.

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Our colleague Dianna Russini of The Athletic is reporting that Kupp has been on a pitch count this week at practice, adding “I'm told he's felt good enough to extend for the football, even making a one-handed grab."

Does one good hand mean two good hamstrings? That is the hope here for Kupp, who hasn't played a snap for the Rams since Week 10 of the 2022 season, when an ankle injury forced him to miss the rest of that year.

Add Kupp back to the Rams offense in time for the kickoff against the unbeaten Eagles on Sunday? LA gets a definitive boost - as long as Kupp is definitively healthy.