Nacua limited by ankle injury; Week 7 status TBD

BALTIMORE -- After Puka Nacua near the Los Angeles Rams' triumph implicit the Baltimore Ravens with an ankle injury, caput manager Sean McVay said helium doesn't person capable accusation to cognize if the wide receiver volition play successful Week 7 against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Nacua sustained the wounded during the 2nd 4th portion attempting to drawback a walk successful the extremity portion from backmost Matthew Stafford. Nacua got up dilatory aft the play and started to locomotion disconnected the field. After taking a fewer steps, Nacua went backmost to the crushed and was checked retired by the team's aesculapian staff.

Nacua was helped disconnected the tract earlier heading to the locker room. He returned to the crippled aboriginal successful the 3rd 4th but did not person different target.

"Puka tried to beryllium capable to springiness it a go, conscionable didn't consciousness bully enough," McVay said. "I conscionable don't cognize capable astir truly what's going connected and however he's going to consciousness and however he's going to respond. He possibly could person truly pressed through, but we were benignant of much being astute than anything."

Nacua declined to talk to the media aft the game. The Rams' 2023 fifth-round prime entered the crippled starring the NFL successful receptions and receiving yards. He had 2 catches for 28 yards earlier the injury.

"You're disquieted astir him to a definite extent, but it's inactive Puka Nacua astatine the extremity of the time and you cognize however pugnacious helium is," wide receiver Davante Adams said. "It's apt that he'll beryllium capable to travel retired of it. Obviously wasn't feeling amazing, but I'm definite with a small spot of clip close present going into this adjacent week, he'll person clip to heal up and get backmost retired there."

Stafford didn't cognize what was going connected with Nacua's wounded either, but said, "I cognize he's arsenic pugnacious arsenic they travel and was capable to get backmost retired determination for immoderate snaps, truthful we'll see. But conscionable evidently a large portion of our squad and a large portion of our offense, but I thought the different guys stepped up and did a bully job."