Three games into the season, Puka Nacua leads the NFL in receiving with 333 yards.
Despite racking up so many yards, Nacua has yet to score a touchdown in 2025.
Nacua has caught 29 passes on 35 targets through three games.
Three weeks into the NFL season, and it’s Puka Nacua who leads the league in receiving. While it’s a slim lead over Jaxon Smith-Njigba, those are the only two players to surpass 300 receiving yards in just three games. Now in his third season, Nacua is making it clear that he’s going to be among the NFL’s elite wide receivers for many years to come. Amidst his hot start, Nacua and the Rams will play host to the Colts in Week 4, hoping to give a 3-0 Indianapolis team its first loss of the season.
Thanks to his fast start to the season, Nacua has become the clear betting favorite for the most receiving yards in NFL this season. More importantly, Nacua has the second-shortest odds to be the NFL Offensive Player of the Year. Right now, he has the best chance of winning that award of any wide receiver.
Given his fast start to the season, Nacua is a great player to target for prop bets this week. We took a close look at him and the Indianapolis defense and picked out three props we like. The odds for our bets are from Caesars Sportsbook, which is giving new users 20 100% profit boost tokens when they sign up with our promo code WSN20X and place a $1 bet.
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It’s been somewhat surprising that Nacua hasn’t found the end zone despite hauling in 29 catches in three games. Matthew Stafford has thrown five touchdown passes in five games, but none have gone to Nacua. At some point, that’s likely to change, even with Nacua catching just three touchdowns in 11 games last season and a modest six in 17 games as a rookie in 2023.
Through three games, the Indianapolis defense has allowed just five passing touchdowns. But that’s a little misleading because they’ve faced the Dolphins and Titans in two of their games. Those are two poor passing teams. Meanwhile, Bo Nix threw three touchdown passes against them in Week 2. If Stafford replicates that type of performance, one of his touchdown passes is bound to land in Nacua’s hands.
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In his first three games, 91 yards is Nacua’s lowest single-game receiving total. That gives him a high bar to surpass. However, he’s also amassed at least 112 passing yards in his other two games. The pure volume of targets and receptions that Nacua is getting this season makes it easy to believe that he can get beyond 91.5 receiving yards again.
In the game that he only had 91 receiving yards, Stafford targeted him nine times, and that’s the season low thus far. There’s no reason to think that’s going to change; Stafford will keep looking his way. Plus, with 35 total targets, Nacua has caught most of those, hauling in 29 receptions. As long as that continues, Nacua will make enough catches to rack up 100-plus yards for the third time this season.
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Despite being integral to the Los Angeles offense this season, Nacua hasn’t been used as a downfield passing threat. Keep in mind that the Rams have Davante Adams to fill that role. As a result, Nacua has yet to have a reception of over 25 yards. That’s another trend that’s likely to continue in Week 4.
As mentioned, the Colts haven’t exactly faced potent passing teams this season. However, the Indy defense has only allowed two passing plays that have been longer than 23 yards this season, and one of those was a mere 27 yards. Since Nacua isn’t a huge downfield threat in the first place, it’s unlikely he’ll have success that far downfield against the Colts, especially since the Rams probably won’t send him on a lot of long routes anyway.
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Receptions: 29
Targets: 35
Receiving Yards: 333
Yards per catch: 11.5
Touchdowns: 0
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