Cooper Douglas Kupp was born on June 15,1993 and is an American football wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League.
64 Facts About Cooper Kupp
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Cooper Kupp played college football at Eastern Washington, where he won the Walter Payton Award as a junior, and was selected by the Rams in the third round of the 2017 NFL Draft.
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Cooper Kupp received the Offensive Player of the Year Award and was the MVP of Super Bowl LVI.
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Cooper Kupp is the NCAA Division I Football Championship career leader in receptions, yards, and receiving touchdowns.
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Cooper Kupp holds the NFL record for most receiving yards in a combined season and postseason, posting 2,425 yards in the 2021 season.
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Cooper Kupp is the grandson of Jake Kupp, an NFL offensive lineman, and the son of Craig Kupp, an NFL quarterback.
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Cooper Kupp's family is one of only five in NFL history to have three generations selected in the NFL draft.
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Cooper Kupp attended and graduated from Davis High School in Yakima in 2012 where he was a two-sport athlete in football and basketball for the Pirates athletic teams.
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Cooper Kupp was named by the Seattle Times as a "White Chip" selection, as one of the top 100 prospects in the state of Washington.
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Cooper Kupp was a unanimous first-team All-Columbia Basin Big Nine League wide receiver and defensive back at Davis.
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Cooper Kupp finished his senior season with 60 receptions for 1,059 yards and 18 touchdowns and scored 22 total touchdowns to set a school record.
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Cooper Kupp had 11 rushes for 122 yards and two touchdowns as he helped Davis come one game away from a berth in the Washington State 4A Playoffs.
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Cooper Kupp finished his prep career without a single college football scholarship offer despite recording 110 catches for 2,100 yards.
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Cooper Kupp attended Eastern Washington University, where he signed to play for coach Beau Baldwin's Eastern Washington Eagles football team in 2012 and redshirted that year.
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In 2013, Cooper Kupp entered his redshirt freshman year as a starter at wide receiver.
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Cooper Kupp finished the season having set numerous single-season school and national receiving records at the Football Championship Subdivision Level.
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Cooper Kupp has set national freshman records for receiving yards, total touchdown catches, consecutive games with a touchdown catch, and receptions.
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On November 26,2013, Cooper Kupp was named to the All-Big Sky Conference First-team as a unanimous selection and was the recipient of the conference's first-ever Freshman of the Year Award.
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On December 16,2013, Cooper Kupp was named the recipient of the 2013 Jerry Rice Award, given to the top freshman player in the FCS.
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Cooper Kupp is the first Eastern Washington player and the first player from the Big Sky Conference to receive the award.
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Cooper Kupp was named a consensus first-team All-American, having been honored by the four major selectors at the FCS level, consisting of the American Football Coaches Association, the Associated Press, The Sports Network and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
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Cooper Kupp was the first freshman wide receiver to be named as a first-team All-American since Randy Moss in 1996.
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On January 9,2014, Cooper Kupp was honored by the College Football Performance Awards with the 2013 FCS Wide Receiver Award.
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Cooper Kupp is the second straight Eagles wide receiver to win the award, following Brandon Kaufman, who won the 2012 award.
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Cooper Kupp finished his sophomore season with 104 catches for 1,431 yards and 16 touchdowns in 13 games.
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Cooper Kupp was named a First-team All-American by the AFCA, AP, and TSN for the second consecutive season.
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Cooper Kupp was named to the first-team All-Big Sky Conference for the second straight year as a wide receiver while earning third-team honors as punt returner.
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Cooper Kupp finished 18th in the 2014 Walter Payton Award voting.
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Cooper Kupp broke the Big Sky single-season record for catches with 114, a total that ranks ninth most all-time in FCS single-season history.
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Cooper Kupp was named a first-team All-Big Sky Conference wide receiver for the third-straight year and was named the league's Offensive Most Valuable Player.
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Cooper Kupp was just the second wide receiver to be named Big Sky Offensive MVP in the last 42 years.
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Cooper Kupp won the Walter Payton Award, becoming the third Eastern Washington player to win the award and only the second wide receiver to win, after Brian Finneran of Villanova in 1997.
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On November 30,2015, Cooper Kupp announced that he would return for his senior season after speculation that he was considering entering the 2016 NFL Draft.
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Cooper Kupp was poised to break nearly every major FCS career receiving record mark during his final collegiate season.
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NFL analyst Bucky Brooks stated Cooper Kupp was the top performer at the Senior Bowl.
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Cooper Kupp attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and completed all the combine drills except for the bench press.
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On March 28,2017, Cooper Kupp opted to participate in Eastern Washington's pro day along with Jordan West, Shaq Hill, Samson Ebukam, Kendrick Bourne, and Miquiyah Zamora.
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Cooper Kupp attempted all of the combine drills but opted to skip the bench press and broad jump.
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Cooper Kupp shortened his time in the short shuttle to 6.53s and performed positional drills for scouts and team representatives.
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Cooper Kupp was ranked the eighth-best wide receiver in the draft by NFLDraftScout.
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Cooper Kupp was the seventh wide receiver drafted in 2017 and became the second highest pick in Eastern Washington's school history, only behind Michael Roos who was taken by the Tennessee Titans in the 2005 NFL Draft.
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Cooper Kupp was reunited with Eastern Washington teammate Samson Ebukam after the Rams selected him in the fourth round.
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Cooper Kupp was fourth in the entire NFL in red zone targets behind leaders Davante Adams, Larry Fitzgerald, and Dez Bryant who were tied with 20 red zone targets each.
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Cooper Kupp was named a starting wide receiver in 2018 alongside Robert Woods and offseason acquisition Brandin Cooks.
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Cooper Kupp finished the season with 40 receptions for 566 yards and six touchdowns through eight games and starts.
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Cooper Kupp returned from his injury in time for the Rams' season opener against the Carolina Panthers.
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Cooper Kupp's performance set an NFL record most receiving yards in an international NFL game.
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Cooper Kupp finished the 2019 season with 94 receptions for 1,161 yards and 10 touchdowns in 16 games and 14 starts.
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Cooper Kupp led the team in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns.
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Cooper Kupp's ten receiving touchdowns tied with Mark Andrews for the second most in the NFL in 2019.
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Cooper Kupp was ranked 89th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2020.
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On September 12,2020, Cooper Kupp signed a three-year, $48 million contract extension with the Rams, including $35.1 million guaranteed.
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Cooper Kupp finished the 2020 season with 92 receptions for 974 yards and three touchdowns in 15 games and 12 starts.
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Cooper Kupp recorded three games with at least 100 yards.
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Cooper Kupp led the team in receptions and receiving yards for the season.
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Cooper Kupp had a pivotal 44-yard reception to help set up the Rams' game-winning field goal.
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In Super Bowl LVI, against the Cincinnati Bengals, Cooper Kupp scored his first career Super Bowl touchdown, an 11-yard reception.
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Cooper Kupp was ranked fourth by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2022.
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On June 9,2022, Cooper Kupp signed a three-year, $80 million contract extension with the Rams.
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Cooper Kupp was placed on injured reserve on November 15,2022.
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Cooper Kupp is the son of former NFL quarterback Craig Cooper Kupp, a fifth-round draft pick by the New York Giants in 1990 out of Pacific Lutheran University who played for the Phoenix Cardinals and the Dallas Cowboys in 1991.
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Cooper Kupp's grandfather, Jake Kupp, was an offensive lineman for the University of Washington and was drafted in the ninth round of the 1964 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys.
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Cooper Kupp was named to the franchise's 25-year All-Time Team and was inducted into the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Cooper Kupp developed a close friendship with former Rams quarterback Jared Goff while living with him for a few weeks after the draft.