Puka Nacua, one of the NFL’s best young wide receivers, added another notable accomplishment Sunday.
In the Los Angeles Rams’ regular-season finale, Nacua caught 10 passes for 76 yards and a touchdown in the team’s 37-20 win over its NFC West division rival Arizona Cardinals.
That left Nacua with 129 receptions in the 2025 season, which will end up being tops in the NFL.
It’s the first time in his three seasons that the former BYU and Orem High standout has led the league in a receiving statistic during the regular season.
It also tied for the seventh-best single-season receptions total in NFL history, joining the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Antonio Brown in the 2014 season.
Michael Thomas holds the NFL single-season receptions record — he had 149 with the New Orleans Saints in 2019.
Nacua also ended the regular season with 1,715 receiving yards, second-best in the league only to Seattle’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who finished with 1,793.
Nacua’s 1,715 receiving yards is the 13th-best NFL single-season mark and second-best for the Rams franchise, trailing only Cooper Kupp’s 1,947 receiving yards in 2021 when he won the NFL’s triple crown (leading the league in receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns).
Smith-Njigba’s 1,793 receiving yards is the eight-best mark in NFL history. Calvin Johnson set the NFL single-season receiving yards record in 2012, when he had 1,964 receiving yards for the Detroit Lions.
There have been only 16 players to ever hit the 1,700-yard single-season receiving yards mark in NFL history, and that now includes both Nacua and Smith-Njigba.
Nacua also ended the 2025 regular season with 10 touchdowns, the first time in his career he’s recorded double-digit touchdown receptions.
His 2-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter Sunday was his 10th touchdown catch of the year and gave the Rams a 13-6 lead.
With the win, the Rams clinched the No. 5 seed in the NFC. Los Angeles will open the playoffs in the divisional round on the road at the NFC South champion, the No. 4 seed Carolina Panthers.