Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp breaks a tackle to get past Cincinnati Bengals safety Jessie Bates during the first half of Super Bowl LVI on Sunday at SoFi Stadium. Kupp was named the game’s MVP after the Rams’ 23-20 win. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Cooper Kupp saw the future.
He envisioned being most valuable player of the Super Bowl.
The vision didn’t come in a usual way. This wasn’t the case of the prescient Rams receiver reading what a defender is going to do.
No, the crystal-ball moment for Kupp came in Atlanta three years ago, when a knee injury had reduced him to a spectator in the Super Bowl against New England.
“I wasn’t able to be a part of that thing,” Kupp said after his two-touchdown performance in Sunday’s 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. “I don’t know what it was, but there was this vision from God that we were going to come back, we were going to be a part of a Super Bowl, we were going to win it, and somehow I was going to walk off…
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