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Puka Nacua is taking notes.
The Los Angeles Rams wide receiver is beginning his fourth NFL season next month, making him due for quite a payday.
Nacua’s 95.3 receiving yards per game are the most all-time, and since joining the league in 2023, no one else within six yards of him.
Once an afterthought as a fifth-round selection, Nacua is now in the conversation as the best wide receiver in the league, and he wants to be paid like it.
Well, after Zay Flowers inked a $140 million extension that gives him $108 million guaranteed, both figures are the fourth-highest ever at the position, Nacua has reportedly brought in Flowers’ agent to negotiate his next contract.
Like Flowers, Nacua is now represented by WIN Sports Group after previously being a part of the Athletes First team. WIN also represents stars like Dexter Lawrence, Jordan Davis, Nnamdi Madubuike, and Dion Dawkins.
Because Nacua wasn’t drafted in the first round, unlike Flowers, he is not eligible for a fifth-year option, making him set to hit free agency upon the 2026 season’s end.
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Flowers and Nacua entered the league the same year, and given that Nacua’s numbers are better than Flowers’ across the board, the Rams star figures to have a good argument to not only beat Flowers’ deal but maybe even surpass Jaxon Smith-Njigba as the highest-paid receiver of all time ($168.6 million).
Despite Flowers playing in 50 games compared with Nacua’s 44, Flowers has more than 1,000 fewer receiving yards and 76 fewer receptions.
Flowers has undoubtedly been a stalwart for the Baltimore Ravens, as he’s coming off a season in which he caught 86 passes for 1,211 yards and five touchdowns. He’s now posted back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. Yet had Nacua not missed six games because of injury in 2024, he may very well already have more than 4,500 yards (he had more than 90 receiving yards per game that season).
Flowers has missed only one regular-season game in three seasons (his rookie campaign), although he was unavailable for the 2024 playoffs.
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He became the fastest player in Ravens history (21 games) to reach 100 receptions and the first Raven with multiple 1,000-yard seasons in the first three years of his career. He ranked 11th in the NFL in receptions in 2025 and seventh in receiving yards. That was despite an underwhelming, injury-plagued season from Jackson — and Baltimore’s willingness to run the ball with Derrick Henry.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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