The image is frozen in Penina Nacua’s mind: a father, her husband, teaching their son Puka about football inside a truck.
But then young Puka would lose his father to diabetes in 2012. Lionel was 45. Puka, now a Rams’ rookie receiver, was 15 days from his 11th birthday.
“My husband loved defense, he loved having his boys hitting each other,” Penina said. “He would have everybody suiting up and putting on the shoulder pads, and he’d make them go head-on, one-on-one. Whoever was the youngest was getting mauled, and that was Puka.”Tough love was the standard. All the boys would go on to play football. “You got 10 seconds to get up,” Lionel would tell Puka. Puka never could bear staying down.
“He has shown this freak athletic ability since Day 1,” Jets quarterback and childhood friend Zach Wilson told Serby Says. “I’ve always known he’s been a smooth route-runner, great ball skills, he’s been able to win on his routes, he’s obviously very smart.It’s no shock to one of his coaches at BYU, and it’s no shock to one of his Rams teammates.
“I would say they’re both technicians,” Williams told Serby Says by phone. “They both know how to get open, they both know how to catch the ball, they both know what to do after the catch.”“I think that’s a fair comparison, because Cooper Kupp is another one who has a really well-rounded game,” Roderick told Serby Says. “He’s a physical receiver, he makes plays down the field, but he’s also really good at running after the catch. They ask Cooper Kupp to do a lot in their run game.
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