{"id":723117,"date":"2026-02-02T05:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/723117\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:40:22","slug":"puka-nacua-gets-new-haircut-after-rams-playoff-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/723117\/","title":{"rendered":"Puka Nacua gets new haircut after Rams&#8217; playoff exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New offseason, new \u2018do for Puka Nacua.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams wide receiver revealed he chopped his signature long locks this weekend, just days after Los Angeles was ousted from the playoffs in a crushing NFC Championship game loss to the Seahawks.<\/p>\n<p>For most of Puka Nacua\u2019s career with the Los Angeles Rams, he\u2019s sported shoulder-length hair. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Nacua showed off the fresh look on his Instagram page on Saturday, sharing a video of the cut to his 500,000-plus followers.<\/p>\n<p>It features some buzzed sides that fade into flow on the top, and Nacua clearly dug it, as he posted at least one more image of it later.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Rams superstar Puka Nacua revealed he chopped off his signature long hair. Instagram\/eazy_cut_it<\/p>\n<p>The NFL, too, made it known it was a fan, as it shared some video on X of him touching down for the Pro Bowl on Saturday evening in the Bay Area with the caption, \u201cLooking clean for his second Pro Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nacua, 24, rocked a similar cut during his collegiate days at BYU, but most of his time as a Ram has featured shoulder-length hair.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s, of course, served him well throughout his three years in LA \u2014 he\u2019s totaled 4,191 yards and 19 touchdowns on 313 catches in just 44 games.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all his success in his first three years with the Rams, Puka Nacua hasn\u2019t been to reach a Super Bowl yet. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Although after being bounced from the postseason before the Super Bowl for the third straight year, seems Nacua might be trying to mix up the juju for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps he\u2019s just hopeful it, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/31\/sports\/puka-nacua-shoots-skydiving-shot-with-sydney-sweeney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a love for skydiving<\/a>, might improve his chances at scoring some 1-on-1 time with Sydney Sweeney in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New offseason, new \u2018do for Puka Nacua. The Rams wide receiver revealed he chopped his signature long locks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2079],"tags":[1443,7,1014,58,2444,2611,6,1088,424,9,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-723117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-rams","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-rams","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-losangelesrams","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-puka-nacua","16":"tag-rams","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-entertainment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115999436200147504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723117","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=723117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}