> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # ‘Script Writers Did a Great Job With That One’: Former Ram Cooper Kupp on Storybook Run with Seahawks - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/seahawks-script-writers-did-a-great-job-with-that-one-former-ram-cooper-kupp-on-storybook-run/ - Published: 2026-01-27T19:32:45.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T06:16:12.000Z - Author: Nick Lee - Tags: Features, Seahawks, Cooper Kupp [Embed from Getty Images](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2258211153?ref=emeraldcityspectrum.com) The Rams releasing Cooper Kupp felt less like a routine roster move and more like a breakup no one was ready for. After years of shared success, with record-setting seasons, a Super Bowl title, and an identity built on trust and precision, the relationship simply ended abruptly and without ceremony. One day he was the face of Sean McVay’s offense, the next he was packing up memories instead of playbooks, proof that even the most productive and celebrated partnerships in the NFL don’t always get a proper goodbye. Before the breakup ever came, Cooper Kupp and the Rams were a model partnership. Drafted in 2017, Kupp grew from a dependable receiver into the heartbeat of Sean McVay’s offense, redefining what precision and chemistry could look like at the NFL level with quarterbacks Jared Goff and Matthew Stafford. He became Matthew Stafford’s most trusted target, capped by one of the greatest receiving seasons in league history in 2021, a rare Triple Crown, a Super Bowl MVP, and countless clutch moments that turned third downs into inevitabilities. For years, Kupp wasn’t just productive, he was foundational, the kind of player franchises expect to grow old with. A Kupp Rams jersey felt like one of the safest jersey purchases for any Rams fan. That’s what made the eventual split feel less like a football decision and more like a breakup, sudden, emotional, and strangely impersonal after everything they’d built together. What do they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure? Not that Kupp ever played like trash on the Rams. But deep down, he might’ve felt cast aside like a stray paper when they unceremoniously released him on March 12, 2025\. What happened next felt inevitable for the Yakima, WA native and Eastern Washington football legend. A homecoming. Almost immediately after that painful release from the Rams came the rebound, the kind that feels written by fate. After the Rams moved on, Kupp found a new “girl” in the Seattle Seahawks, his hometown team, the one he grew up watching. This wasn’t a messy, revenge-fueled fling, it was the comforting kind of connection that makes the old breakup sting a little less. Familiar streets, familiar colors, and a fresh start with a team that didn’t need him to be something new, just himself. In a league that rarely offers poetic endings, Kupp landing in Seattle felt like the moment you realize the relationship you lost made room for the one that actually fits. Roughly 48 hours after the official news of his release hit the NFL transaction wire, Kupp signed with his home state team, the Seattle Seahawks, on a fresh three-year, $45 million deal. Fast-forward to January 2026, where Kupp is running into the endzone to score six against his former team in the NFC Championship Game. Sam Darnold found Kupp for a 13-yard touchdown to essentially put the game out of reach, going up 31-20\. Even with the Rams rallying late, that score by Kupp ended up being the difference. How poetic. Kupp’s touchdown helped eliminate his old team on the cusp of the Super Bowl and send his new team, his hometown team, the Seahawks, to the Big Game in Santa Clara. “For the story to be what it was, that it had to be through the Rams,” Kupp told the media on Monday, “To be able to get where we wanted to go, in the NFC Championship, in that moment, the script writers did a great job with that one.” Of course, the last part was slightly tongue-in-cheek, but the storybook journey is real. Sure, Kupp is no longer the All-Pro, Triple Crown-winning receiver he was from 2018 to 2021, but the Seahawks didn’t need him to be. He ended up being exactly what the Seahawks needed and wanted - a complement to their current No. 1 wideout Jaxon Smith-Njigba, while being a steady, guiding force in the locker room. During the 2025 season, he has been the perfect complementary piece. He caught 47 passes for 593 yards and two touchdowns in the regular season. He’s at nine catches for 96 yards and that score during the postseason run. He has logged six first downs this postseason, ninth among all pass-catchers around the NFL in January. The 32-year-old is still valuable, still a viable part of a great NFL offense. He’s doing things that the Rams perhaps thought were no longer possible with No. 10\. Kupp will never admit that this is a “revenge tour” through the Rams; he’s too reserved to go that far. But it must have been extra sweet to be the one to put the final nail in his former team’s coffin with his new hometown team, the one that still believed in him when the Rams didn’t. Now, the “script writers” certainly can be in their bag again in Santa Clara for Super Bowl LX, with Kupp returning to the Big Game for the first time since being named MVP of Super Bowl LVI.