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Rams rookie WR Puka Nacua's journey to NFL stardom

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AS PENINA NACUA thought about the challenges preventing her from making it to her son Puka Nacua's first NFL game, she began to pray.

The Los Angeles Rams rookie wide receiver is the second youngest of six children, and his younger brother, Tei, plays high school football in Utah. Penina, a single mother since her husband, Lionel, died in 2012, couldn't figure out a way for Tei to be able to play in his game on Friday and go to practice on Saturday as well as not miss her work shift on Monday if she traveled to see Puka's game on that second Sunday in September.