Puka Nacua is quickly becoming one of the faces of the NFL, but that has come with some growing pains these last few weeks.
A week ago in Arizona, he got in trouble with teammates after attempting to go live on Instagram following the team’s blowout win over the Cardinals. It is against NFL rules for players to film after a game without permission, and Nacua ignored requests from fellow team members to put the phone down and continued streaming to his nearly 500,000 followers.
On Tuesday, before arguably the biggest game of the NFL regular season, as the 11-3 Los Angeles Rams travel to Seattle to face the 11-3 Seahawks in a game that could decide the top seed in the NFC, Nacua was caught up in drama again involving livestreaming.
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Livestreamers Adin Ross and Mikyle “N3on” Rafiq went to the Rams’ training facility out in Woodland Hills to hang out and livestream with one of the best wide receivers in the NFL, staking out in the parking lot waiting to be let in.
While Nacua allegedly was excited and “fought” to bring the two streamers and their friends into the Rams’ headquarters, the team owned by Stan Kroenke was less enthused, as they quickly put a stop to allowing the polarizing personalities into their facilities days before their biggest regular-season game in years.
“No, chat, it’s not on Puka,” Ross said on stream. “It’s somebody telling them — they’re giving Puka a hard time. Puka is fighting for us.”
Nacua is rumored to be up for a gigantic extension with the Rams this offseason, as the former fifth-round pick is considered a “main priority” for the organization to lock down long-term.
