Rams' Kupp to have ankle surgery, headed to IR

LOS ANGELES -- Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp volition person ankle country Wednesday and beryllium placed connected injured reserve, manager Sean McVay said Tuesday.

Kupp volition miss astatine slightest 4 games connected injured reserve, but McVay did not regularisation the receiver retired for the remainder of the season. McVay said the "tightrope" process that volition beryllium performed connected Kupp typically has a betterment clip of 5 to six weeks.

Kupp suffered a precocious ankle sprain successful the Rams' Week 10 nonaccomplishment to the Arizona Cardinals successful the 4th fourth portion attempting to drawback a walk from backmost John Wolford. Kupp appeared to drawback his close ankle aft the play and was helped to the seat by the team's aesculapian staff.

"Obviously you ne'er ever regenerate a subordinate similar Cooper Kupp, but we've got to fig retired the champion mode to accentuate the accomplishment sets of the guys that volition beryllium playing," McVay said.

Kupp took to Twitter to convey his fans for their support.

Thanks to everyone who has reached retired and sent prayers! This is unluckily conscionable portion of the game. Appreciate having a trusted aesculapian squad astir me. Gonna get this happening fixed, past get backmost to enactment to get backmost to work!

The Los Angeles discourtesy has depended connected Kupp this season: Entering Week 10, Kupp accounted for 35.7% of the Rams' catches this season, which is the highest people by immoderate subordinate successful the league. He entered the crippled with 72 receptions, for a gait of 153 implicit a 17-game season, according to ESPN Stats & Information data. The NFL single-season grounds is 149 by New Orleans Saints receiver Michael Thomas successful 2019.

"I deliberation what we've learned much than anything, particularly this year, is let's conscionable instrumentality it a time astatine a time," McVay said. "Let's spot however that process goes time erstwhile helium gets that done. Let's marque definite that each the things that they initially thought based connected what the MRI looked similar were successful alignment. How does that country go? But I don't deliberation you privation to pigeonhole yourself into 1 approach, but you bash cognize that the archetypal measurement is the country and past the due steps volition beryllium followed aft that."

McVay besides said that backmost Matthew Stafford is inactive successful the concussion protocol but that the squad would get much clarity connected his concern aboriginal successful the time Tuesday.