Cooper Kupp had gone from the flatlands to the summit of his sport. He’d made football’s highest peak.

Kupp had been ignored coming out of Davis High School in Yakima by the college program he wanted to play for: Then-coach Steve Sarkisian’s University of Washington. Kupp’s grandfather Jake played on two Rose Bowl teams for the Huskies.

“That was too bad,” Cooper’s father and Jake’s son Craig Kupp told The News Tribune in 2021. “We tried everything we could. My dad was pretty disappointed. “We just couldn’t get the light of day from them.”

Cooper went instead to lower-division Eastern Washington, in Cheney. He soared as an Eagle. Kupp became the Walter Payton Award winner as the best player in the Football Championship Subdivision in 2015.

The Los Angeles Rams selected the quick, sure

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