LOS ANGELES — Puka Nacua can remember when he and Davis Allen got the text message. The two then-rookies were staying in the team hotel, freshly drafted by the Rams and transitioning to their new situations, when quarterback Matthew Stafford texted them in a group chat asking to set up time to throw to his new pass catchers.

“Being like, ‘Holy cow, I gotta go run the best routes of my life,’” Nacua recalled.

Those nerves of working with the Super Bowl-winning quarterback carried over to their first throwing session. As Stafford explained how he wanted Nacua to run a route, the young receiver told the veteran, “Yes, sir.”

“He’s like, ‘Don’t call me sir,’” Nacua said, chuckling at his younger self. “I’m like, I already messed up. We already started on a bad track.”

Three years later, Sta

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