{"id":1007823,"date":"2026-09-22T16:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1007823\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:12:19","slug":"sean-mcvay-unsure-if-puka-nacua-will-play-vs-broncos-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1007823\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McVay unsure if Puka Nacua will play vs. Broncos on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Rams aim to ride the momentum gained from Monday night\u2019s victory<\/a> over the New York Giants into Sunday\u2019s game against the Denver Broncos in Denver.<\/p>\n

But it remains to be seen whether star receiver Puka Nacua<\/a> will be available.<\/p>\n

Nacua sat out against the Giants because of groin soreness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure what his status is as far as this next coming week,\u201d coach Sean McVay<\/a> said Tuesday during a video conference with reporters. \u201cI\u2019m hopeful that he\u2019ll play. … If he\u2019s ready to go, great. If not, then we\u2019ll continue to roll.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Nacua out, veteran Davante Adams stepped up<\/a> and caught eight passes for 195 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Nacua\u2019s situation came to light late last week and McVay said he was questionable to play against the Giants. Receiver Jordan Whittington\u2019s status also was in doubt because of a quadriceps injury that made him inactive against the Giants.<\/p>\n

So the Rams moved forward with preparation.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to redirect your whole kind of plans, and you almost have to operate where it\u2019s like, \u2018All right, if he plays it\u2019s a bonus but we can\u2019t count on him playing even though we were hopeful that there might be a chance,\u201d McVay said of Nacua. \u201cIt really just boiled down to … when you have soft tissue injuries with guys like that, that are skill players, you\u2019re going to err on the side of caution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rams aim to ride the momentum gained from Monday night\u2019s victory over the New York Giants into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1007824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,7,519,27025,4647,56,6,1088,131887,131886,10026,15539,3667,1287,13256,131888,1549],"class_list":["post-1007823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-broncos","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denverbroncos","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-light","tag-monday-night","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-puka-nacua","tag-receiver-jordan-whittington","tag-sean-mcvay-unsure","tag-situation","tag-status","tag-sunday","tag-touchdown","tag-victory","tag-video-conference","tag-week"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117315577042955541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}